Condition of higher education in the state is pathetic: Fatmi

Darbhanga, May 30 (UNI) Union minister of state for Development of Human Resource Md.Ali Ashraf Fatmi today said the condition of higher education in Bihar was pathetic, where only nine per cent of the total population had college level education.

Speaking in a conference organised by Mithila University Teachers Union Mr Fatmi said the state could progress only when its percentage of higher education went upto at least 20 per cent.

He said Centre was fully committed for the development of educational standard in Bihar. He said the Union government had allotted 350 schools out of total 2100, under Kasturba Gandhi residential girls school to the state.

Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi expressed satisfaction over the progress of education in the state in last two years. He urged the teachers to come forward and put the state into mainstream competition against rest of the progressive states in the country. He said the NDA government was fully committed for development of higher education and has taken various steps in this direction. He said efforts were on to revive the historic Nalanda university.

Mr Modi said the government has decided to open an engineering college to be named after great mathematician Aryabhatt and a women university in the state.

UNI