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Study: Only 19% primary schools in Bihar have toilets

The study also found that textbooks provided by the state government have grammatical errors with many words spelt incorrectly.

Written by: Aranya Shankar
1 min readNew DelhiNov 24, 2015 01:43 AM IST First published on: Nov 24, 2015 at 01:43 AM IST

A study conducted in 28 primary and upper primary schools in various districts of Bihar has revealed that only 19 per cent primary schools had toilets, 28 per cent had hand pumps and 83 per cent teachers were hired on contractual basis.

The study also found that textbooks provided by the state government have grammatical errors with many words spelt incorrectly.

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“In primary schools, 83 per cent teachers were found to be contractual employees, whereas the figures for upper primary schools was 61 per cent. Similarly, in primary schools, only 19 per cent had toilets as against 36 per cent in primary with upper primary schools,” read the report prepared by Department of Sociology, South Asian University(SAU), and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Germany, which undertook the study.

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