Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today refuted opposition's charge of a fake enrolment scam in government schools in the state. However, he conceded there was a discrepancy in the number of students enrolled and those the attending classes.
n by BJP MLA Achyutanand, said the problem has been caused due to scrapping of the school leaving certificate (SLC) for admission to another school, and blamed the erstwhile RJD government for it.
The discrepancy came to the fore after launch of health guarantee scheme mandating issuance of health cards to all students upon furnishing of all details about them. It was found that same students were registered in different classes of the same school or even different schools at the same time, he said.
The discrepancy was a matter of concern, Kumar said adding his government had tried to improve enrolment rate in Bihar and attained 97 per cent enrolment rate by 2011 as against 88 per cent in 2005.
However, the state government was not content with and wanted to improve quality of education and had implemented schemes like providing them books, uniforms and bicycles and mid-day meals, he said.
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