Bihar India’s third most populous state is short of 280,000 teachers

Nearly 5% of children from Bihar aged six to 14 years are estimated to be out of school, according to this 2015 human resource development ministry education profile. Of those out of school, 55% children were never enrolled and 25% dropped out of school.

Of those in primary school, barely 85% made it to upper primary school in 2014-15, the third lowest proportion in India after Nagaland and Uttar Pradesh, according to Unified-District Information System For Education (U-DISE) data.

No more than 38% students enrolled in grade I complete their secondary education (grade X) in Bihar, according to the Bihar Economic Survey 2015-16.

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