In a major decision, the Bihar government on Monday announced financial grants for unaided schools and colleges. A large number of teaching and non-teaching staff of over 5,000 such institutions, who have been going without salary for over 25 years, will now benefit from it. The decision will be effective April 1 this year.
Chief minister Nitish Kumar, while making this announcement on Monday in both the Houses of the state legislature separately, said that the grants would be directly linked to the performance of students of such institutions in examinations. The condition is aimed at improving the quality of education in the state.
The amount would be given to managing committees of these unaided institutions instead of its faculty members. The state government would have an additional financial burden of nearly Rs 150-200 crore per year, said HRD principal secretary Anjani K Singh. The exact amount would be worked out later, Singh told TOI.
The chief minister, amid applause from members in both the Houses, said that unaided degree colleges and schools would be given grants on the basis of the performance of their students in various examinations every year. The institutions would be put in three categories. A sum of Rs 5,500 would be given to degree colleges for every first division while for second divisions they would get grants at the rate of Rs 5,000. For third divisions, the amount would come down to Rs 4,500 per year per student. For girls, an additional Rs 300 would be given for every first division, Rs 200 each for second and third divisions.
Similarly, in higher secondary schools, the amount would be Rs 4,500 for every first division, Rs 4,000 for second and Rs 3,500 for third. For girls, an additional Rs 200 would be given in all the three categories.
Secondary schools would be getting a sum of Rs 3,500 for every first division, Rs 3,000 for second and Rs 2500 for third. For girls, an additional Rs 200 would be given in all the three categories, said Nitish.
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