More schools to be opened : Nitish

The state government is committed to set up more schools and equip them with good facilities to provide quality education to the students, he said at the Independence Day function yesterday.

There are 8400 gram panchayas in the state and only 3000 secondary schools, Kumar said adding that the state government was making an endeavour to set up one secondary school in each gram panchayat. There will be requirement of Rs. 5500 crores to set up 5400 schools, he said.

Besides, the state government will have to arrange for Rs. 3000 crores to provide recurring annual expenditure of each proposed secondary school, the Chief Minister said.

He said that sincere efforts have been made to bring children to the schools and as a result of which there were only three per cent children remaining out of school, but these children must also be enrolled in the schools to ensure their future.

Among other measures taken by the NDA government to improve education in Bihar, it has been decided to ensure that the students should have an attendence of 80 per cent in their classes. (More)