Lok Sabha Question No. 227 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-02-03
Subject: Status of School Education in Bihar
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Alok Kumar Suman

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 227 TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.02.2020

## Status of School Education in Bihar

## 227.   DR. ALOK KUMAR SUMAN:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is satisfied with the performance of school education in the country including State of Bihar;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the steps being taken to improve the same;
- (c) the budget allocated for school education and steps taken to enhance the same; and
- (d) the status of the school education in rural parts of Bihar including district Gopalganj during last four years and the current year?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

- (a) to (d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## STATEMENT  REFERRED  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 227 FOR 3 RD  FEBRUARY, 2020 ASKED BY DR. ALOK KUMAR SUMAN, HON'BLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING STATUS OF SCHOOL EDUCATION IN BIHAR.

(a) and (b) The  performance  on  the  basis  of  learning  outcome  indicated  in  the  National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2017(Class III, V and VIII and NAS for class X which was held in 2018 is given at Annexure-I.

In order to further improve school education in the country including State of Bihar, the following steps have been /are being taken:

- (i) The Central rules to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act,  2009  have  been  amended  and  class-wise,  subject-wise  Learning  Outcomes  have been shared with all States and Union Territories.
- (ii) The online D.El.Ed. course has been started from 3rd October, 2017.
- (iii) In order to provide e-learning material, different facilities like e- PATHSHALA, Digtal Infrastructure  for  Knowledge  Sharing  (DIKSHA)  portal,  SWAYAM  (Study  Webs  to Active  Learning  for  Young  Aspiring  Minds),  SWAYAM  PRABHA  DTH  Channels have been made available.
- (iv) Under  Samagra  Shiksha,  funds  are  given  to  all  States  and  UTs  for  strengthening  of infrastructure  and  to  improve  the  quality  of  education  such  as  training  of  in-service teachers,  headmasters  and  principals,  remedial  teaching  for  academically  weaker students, provision of library grants to schools, ICT and digital initiatives, strengthening  of  teacher  education  institutions,  Rashtriya  Avishkar  Abhiyan,  Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat, etc.
- (v) An integrated Teacher Training Programme NISHTHA (National Initiative for School Heads  and  Teachers'  Holistic  Advancement)  has  been  launched,  to  train  42  lakh teachers,  and  other  functionaries  to  make  classrooms  learner-friendly  and  improve children's competencies including critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, as well as social-personal qualities such as cooperation, team work, etc.
- (vi) The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has undertaken various examination reforms to promote competencies and quality of learning:
- i. Change in design of question papers with nearly 33% increase in internal choice in  all  major  subjects  for  classes  X  and  XII  and  introduction  of  objective  type questions.
- ii. It  has  been  decided  to  include  10%  competency  based  Questions  in  the  annual examination of class 10 in the current year.

CBSE has also crowd sourced content from teachers and has uploaded the e-material on : Learning  Outcomes;  Focus  Spots;  Lesson  Plans;  Explanation  content  ;  Question  Bank; PDFs of NCERT textbooks; Marking Scheme Rubrics for class X ; Experiential Content; and Curiosity Questions for classes VI to X on DIKSHA portal.

- (c) The budget allocation for the year 2019-20 for School Education is Rs. 56536.63 crore.

(d) Information regarding status of school education in rural parts of District Gopalganj for the  last  four  years  and  current  year  is  not  available.  However,  information  on  achievement of learners  in  Bihar  for  the  period  2016-17  to  2018-19  as  provided  by  the  State  Government  is given at Annexure-II.

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.227 for answer on 3 rd February 2020

## National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2017(Class III,V and VIII) and 2018(Class-X)

| Class   | Subject          |   National Average |   Bihar (Rural) |   Gopalganj (Rural) |
|---------|------------------|--------------------|-----------------|---------------------|
| III     | Language         |                 68 |              67 |               67.5  |
| III     | Mathematics      |                 64 |              62 |               62.13 |
| III     | EVS              |                 65 |              62 |               63.69 |
| V       | Language         |                 58 |              58 |               65.02 |
| V       | Mathematics      |                 53 |              53 |               55.45 |
| V       | EVS              |                 57 |              58 |               63.03 |
| VIII    | Language         |                 57 |              57 |               61.77 |
| VIII    | Mathematics      |                 42 |              45 |               45.89 |
| VIII    | Science          |                 44 |              44 |               47.22 |
| VIII    | Social Science   |                 44 |              47 |               51.36 |
| X       | Mathematics      |                 34 |              36 |               44.13 |
| X       | Science          |                 34 |              31 |               37.68 |
| X       | Social Science   |                 39 |              37 |               46.18 |
| X       | English          |                 36 |              29 |               33.87 |
| X       | MIL (Read. Comp. |                 49 |              41 |               42.27 |

ANNEXURE-II

Annexure referred to in reply to part (d) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.227 for answer on 3 rd February 2020

Achievement of learners in Bihar is as follows:

| Achievement in Periodic Assessment of the learner   | Achievement in Periodic Assessment of the learner   | Achievement in Periodic Assessment of the learner   | Achievement in Periodic Assessment of the learner   | Achievement in Periodic Assessment of the learner   | Achievement in Periodic Assessment of the learner   | Achievement in Periodic Assessment of the learner   | Achievement in Periodic Assessment of the learner   |
|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
| Year                                                | Term                                                | Class Covered                                       | Grade wise distribution of children (%)             | Grade wise distribution of children (%)             | Grade wise distribution of children (%)             | Grade wise distribution of children (%)             | Grade wise distribution of children (%)             |
|                                                     |                                                     |                                                     | A (81%- 100%)                                       | B (61%- 80%)                                        | C (41%-60%)                                         | D (33%- 40%)                                        | E (0%-32%)                                          |
| 1                                                   | 2                                                   | 3                                                   | 4                                                   | 5                                                   | 6                                                   | 7                                                   | 8                                                   |
| 2016-17                                             | Half-yearly                                         | I-VIII                                              | 5.60                                                | 29.48                                               | 43.95                                               | 14.19                                               | 6.79                                                |
| 2016-17                                             | Annual                                              | I-VIII                                              | 9.50                                                | 38.80                                               | 36.98                                               | 10.50                                               | 4.23                                                |
| 2017-18                                             | Half- yearly                                        | I-VIII                                              | 7.49                                                | 39.26                                               | 41.65                                               | 9.42                                                | 3.61                                                |
| 2017-18                                             | Annual                                              | I-VIII                                              | 9.19                                                | 43.20                                               | 36.92                                               | 7.64                                                | 3.05                                                |
| 2018-19                                             | Half-yearly                                         | I-VIII                                              | 8.32                                                | 41.95                                               | 38.77                                               | 7.99                                                | 2.82                                                |
| 2018-19                                             | Annual                                              | I-VIII                                              | 8.07                                                | 46.62                                               | 37.71                                               | 5.88                                                | 2.10                                                |