Steps taken to improve quality of education in Bihar: Nitish

Steps have been taken to improve quality of education and ensure quality man power and infrastructure in schools with a broader aim to galvanise the education sector in Bihar from the primary education stage, he said at a felicitation function for teachers on the occasion of the Teachers' Day.

A pension scheme has been launched for contractual teachers and revival of 56 teachers training institutes undertaken to impart training to the teachers, besides arrangements were being made for orientation and training programmes for even the trained teachers, Kumar said.

It has also been decided to credit salaries of the contractual teachers directly in their bank account with effect from December 2012, the Chief Minister said.

Besides, the process was on to recruit of 1.5 lakh contractual teachers in the primary schools and an additional 27,000 Urdu teachers will be recruited so that the students could learn both Hindi and Urdu languages right from primary education level, he said.

Kumar said that the state government has also decided to set up higher secondary schools in each panchayat for intermediate education to the students and 1000 such schools will be set up every year over the next five years.

The state government has paid attention to quality education for the girls too with an objective that their education helps the entire family and society, he said.