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TopicBihar education system

Topic: Bihar education system

How is ‘Vikas Raj’ going in Bihar? Roads shining, cracks in classrooms, clinics

After 20 years of Nitish rule, Bihar remains India’s worst-performing state overall, ranking among the lowest in health and education despite massive budget increases.

Bihar slips in Centre’s school index—infra decline in 14 of 38 districts, lags in digital learning

Even as state govt harps on ahead of polls about socio-economic progress over the yrs, schools have a lot of catching up to do, shows Performance Grading Index for 2022-23 & 2023-24.

Bihar has many Khushboo Kumaris who score 400 but don’t get to study science. Arts their fate

A wave of ambition has swept across the girls of Danapur after Khushboo expressed her desire, refusing to be yet another girl with educational certificates in the marriage market.

Bihar kicks off school monitoring plan to improve quality of education, mid-day meals, upgrade infra

Over 8,000 officials will check around 10 to 15 govt schools each. District officials have been instructed to review and report regularly, take action to address deficiencies.

SubscriberWrites: KK Pathak’s approach and educational reforms in Bihar

The dynamic reforms taken by the officer in the last year were key to move some of the slothful mountains constraining quality education in Bihar for decades.

IAS officer KK Pathak is the TN Seshan of Bihar schools. But can fear bring reform?

Pathak's 'undemocratic' measures as the additional chief secretary of education are infamous in Bihar. He’s suspending teachers, slashing salaries, striking truant students off rolls.

No place to sit in school, Bihar girl students attack education department car

Local administration said classrooms were overflowing because there were more admissions than capacity.

‘No trust at all’: Bihar teachers, aspirants out on street against Nitish Kumar’s ‘betrayal’

Nitish Kumar scrapped the teacher recruitment system he himself had introduced in 2006. Those who cleared Bihar STET and were waiting for appointment letters will have to sit for BPSC exam now.

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When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.