Department of Education-Bihar

Bihar is a land of wisdom. The Department of Education , Bihar is responsible for preserving the glorious history of the state as used to be in the golden era of Nalanda University and Vikramshila University. The department is concerned with providing education and setting up related frames and infrastructure across the state. With five directorates and several apex bodies, the department has been working to create facilitative environment in which youth, women and others would explore their knowledge and skills by pursuing primary, secondary, higher and mass education.

Objectives:

In a world based on science and technology; it is the education that determines the level of prosperity, welfare and security of the people. The Department of Education , Bihar has been working hard with the stated goals of Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) declared in Millennium Development Goals. Although, the literacy rate has increased over the year but it is not up to the mark. Still Bihar has got the lowest literacy rate of 63.82%. Keeping deep concern on this issue, the Department of Education , Bihar has been working continuously to improve the literacy rate.

Goals:

Raise the literacy rate in a saturated condition;

Decrease female illiteracy;

Completion of primary education;

Improve quality of education;

Achieve appropriate student-teacher ratio, i.e. 58:1, with quality of teaching;

Bring back the drop out children;

Provide educational infrastructure;

Proper monitoring to discover corruption in welfare schemes;

Synchronize session;

Providing sufficient number of schools so that students don’t have to travel long;

Emphasize vocational education;

Promoting career oriented approach in education;