Only 3% kids out of school in Bihar-1/2/11

Only 3% kids out of school in Bihar


A report on the Status of Primary Education in Bihar confirms the growing strides made by the Nitish Kumar government in putting children into schools. While 25 lakh children between the ages of six and 14 were found to be out of school in 2005-06, the number is now down to a quarter — 5.9 lakh.

In 2009, 92.7 per cent of the children who passed out of Class V enrolled into Class VI, against an average of 32 per cent doing so in Classes VI, VII and VIII in the prior three years. One of the reasons is the jump in the number of schools — there are now 114.3 schools for every one lakh people in the state, against just 60 three years ago.

These are some of the main findings of the report on primary education in Bihar prepared by the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), Pratichi (West Bengal) and Centre for Economic Policies and Public Finance. The Indian Express has accessed the report, which will be released by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen here on February 4.

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