Challenges of Education in Bihar

Education is considered globally as one of the important instruments for social change. It attaches more significance for the developing nations. Moreover, child centric quality education has still been concerns of intellectuals, policy makers and social activists across the world in general and backward regions like India in particular. This paper is an attempt to underline the issues related to quality education in Bihar, one of the most backward states of India. This exercise is intended to deal with status of free and compulsory quality education, its underlying challenges, gaps in terms of hard and soft infrastructure and desired imperatives.