Bihar needs more funds to implement Right to Education Act

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that states lacked funds to implement the Right to Education Act and asked the Centre to bear the entire expense.
Nitish Kumar was addressing the "Akshar Bihar" function, organised by ADRI at the AN Sinha Institute of Social Sciences in Patna on April 7, 2010.

On the occasion, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, D Purandeswari delivered the 12th Myles Horton and Paulo Fereire Memorial Lecture on " Shakshar Bharat: New Initiative for Knowledge Society in India".
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi also spoke on the occasion.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Bihar lacked sufficient resources to implement the
Right to Education Act, 2009 and it was the responsibility of the Centre to meet cent per cent expenditure on this head without specifying share of the states and Centre.

Bihar would need 3.30 lakh more teachers and 1.8 lakh additional classrooms to implement the Right to Education Act, 2009, which came into force from April 1.

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