Collapse of Bihar’s education system biggest blot on Nitish Kumar tenure: Prashant Kishore

The poll strategist, Prashant Kishore, launched a critical attack on Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, claiming that the State’s educational system has failed.

While interacting with media in Vaishali during Jan Suraaj Padyatra, he showed concerns about education in Bihar. He pointed out, “…in the last 5-6 years, the entire education system, which has been created on the basis of upgraded schools and employed teachers, has become completely useless. Khichdi is being distributed in schools and only degrees are being distributed in colleges. Some people believe that the education system has deteriorated because of the quality of teachers but this is not true in all ways”.

While commenting on the collapsed education system, Kishore took a jibe at Nitish Kumar Government. He said, “Although teachers are employed in the school, employed teachers are not teaching in the college. Children go to the college once for enrollment, take the admit card for the second time, appear for the exam, and then leave with the degree. In Bihar, the education system has collapsed when an educated person like Nitish Kumar is the Chief Minister. Whenever the history of his tenure is written, education will be seen as the biggest blot”.
Previously in January at Gopalganj, during his Jan Suraaj Padyatra, Prashant Kishore accused the Chief Minister of “shedding all morality” to remain in power. Kishore said, “He won just 42 seats in the Assembly polls in 2020. His greed for power is such that he is stuck to the chair like a fevicol”. He added, “he wants to remain on the chair by any means, and that’s the reality of Nitish Kumar”.

In an exclusive interview with Organiser last year, the former spokesperson of JD(U), Dr Ajay Alok, expressed his concerns about the depreciating Bihar’s education system. He stated, “If we talk about the education and public recruitment sector, there is no example of enhancement under Nitish in the last 15 years”.

Talking about the higher education system, Alok said, “See, in higher education, we have opened up many medical colleges, business colleges, and agricultural universities. We have all the hardware, but the software is missing. Every district has an ITI. We have a Law Institute; we have agricultural universities, but we don’t have teachers. How does the hardware operate if you don’t have the necessary software?”.