Bihar needs 1.1 lakh additional schools over the next five years to bring an estimated 2.25 crore children to its fold, against the present number of 1.5 crore.
The state will have to make an additional annual expenditure of Rs 17,221 crore to reach the goal in the next couple of years, according to a report of the Common School System (CES) commission, constituted by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
The state will require 60,000 primary schools, 31,000 middle schools and 19,100 senior secondary schools by 2012-13 to ensure free and compulsory education for children, universalisation of secondary education in eight years by 2015-16, and giving facilities for 70 per cent transition from Class X to Senior Seconday Level by 2016-27, the report said.
It has also been suggested in the report that Bihar needed to increase its present capacity of schools by nearly two and half times, while primary schools would have to be increased by 75 per cent. Similarly, the number of middle schools need to be doubled up and there has to be a 7.5 fold increase in the number of senior secondary schools, the report added.
It observed that despite the recent recruitment of teachers on a large scale, their number needed to be more than double in primary schools, four and half times more in middle schools and more than 14 times in senior secondary schools.
"Given these tasks, the projected total additional expenditure of Rs 17,221.5 crore may be regarded as modest," the commission pointed out.
Education being in the concurrent list, both the Centre and the state had the responsibility of mobilising additional resources, it said
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