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 8,400 gram panchayas in the state and only 3,000 secondary schools, Kumar said, adding that the state government is making an endeavour to set up one secondary school in each gram panchayat. About Rs 5,500 crores will be required to set up 5,400 schools, he said.
Besides, the state government will have to arrange Rs 3000 crores to provide recurring annual expenditure of each proposed secondary school, the Chief Minister said.
He said that efforts have been made to bring children to schools and as a result of which there are 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)