HC tells govt to improve education

PATNA: A division bench of the Patna High Court, comprising chief justice R S Dhavan and Justice Shashank Kumar Singh, on Friday reiterated its earlier order to the state government to impart education in schools in Bihar in accordance with constitutional provisions.
This case had been started suo motu by the High Court.
The additional advocate general, S K Ghosh, said that teachers have been pos-ted in schools.On this, M P Gupta, the lawyer and secretary of Council for Protection of Public Rights and Welfare, said that the state government''s claim was false as the records available in the high court made it clear that 5,000 high schools were without headmasters and 34,000 posts of teachers were vacant.
He gave the example of some schools in the state capital which lacked classrooms and other infrastructure, and lack of amenities like drinking water and toilets.