Bihar
Students in Bihar, UP and Chhattisgarh schools lack basic amenities
New Delhi, March 25, 2012: The tall claims of the state government to provide basic amenities like toilets in schools remains to be far cry. Especially in states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh where the drive is facing a tough time. Even, in the national capital, two schools have still not got this facility.
In Madhya Pradesh, there are at least 32,000 schools which lack basic amenities. Bihar follows closely with 23,000 schools and Uttar Pradesh and Chattishgarh each with 20,000 schools respectively.
13,000 Bihar schools without drinking water facility
Patna, May 5, 2012: Shortage of infrastructure in schools in Bihar was a 'major challenge', state Minister for Education P K Sahi said on Saturday adding there was no drinking water facility in around 13000 government schools.
Addressing a seminar 'Right of Children and Law', Shahi said several schools had no toilets, even for girl students.
Alternative Sanitation Initiative in Khagaria District, Bihar
Megh Pyne Abhiyan (MPA) in partnership with SAMTA (partner organization in Khagaria district) is piloting the localized version of Phaydemand Shauchalay aka productive toilet/ecological sanitation in two tolas (hamlets) (Nepal and Railway tola of Khagaria district) as an alternative and appropriate utility for the flood prone areas of Bihar.
Alternative Sanitation Initiative in West Champaran District, Bihar
About the initiative
Megh Pyne Abhiyan in partnership with Water Action is executing a peoples’ centered, driven and owned alternative secure sanitation, personal and menstrual hygiene management process and facilities in Burmi Tola, a flood prone hamlet of Rupaulia village of West Champara district in Bihar. The initiative is being supported by Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden and Wash Institute, India.
Many schools in Bihar lack adequate rooms, toilets and even teachers!
Darbhanga, Apr 6, 2012: "The current age is the era of knowledge and not of weapons, and only through education and knowledge can one break out of the abject poverty". Wise words from Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who believes that times have changed since his government took over: now is the time to pick up the pen and discover its power.
Reaching out to Bihar's poorest, via radio
Patna, Feb 1, 2012: Come July, special radio programmes will be aired in Bihar for Mahadalits, the poorest of the poor in the state, to educate them about the importance of literacy, sanitation and kicking bad habits like consuming alcohol and tobacco.
Right to Education Act threatens education
New Delhi, April 25, 2012: In analysing the Supreme Court judgment upholding the Right to Education (RTE) Act, television channels have focused too much on the 25% reservation of seats in private schools - including famous elite schools - for low-income children.
Bhagalpur Municipal Corporation (BMC) plan to produce power from waste
Bhagalpur, Feb 19, 2012: The disposal of garbage in urban areas under its jurisdiction has been a cause of concern for the Bhagalpur Municipal Corporation (BMC). But it may not be of a cause of anxiety in the near future if the BMC's plan to produce electricity from the urban waste takes off. The technology to be used would be based on waste-to-energy generation.
