Patna,(BiharTimes): Only four blocks of Bihar and 11 of Jharkhand have been included in the list of 3,203 educationally backward blocks selected for establishing Rashtriya Adarsh Vidyalaya by the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

The Department is engaged in providing education, especially to the under-privileged population. As part of this endeavour, the authority proposed to undertake development, operation and management of 2,500 Rashtriya Adarsh Vidyalaya through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) on Design, Build, Finance, and Operate (DBFO) basis. The school shall be located in villages/towns which are situated in any of these 3,203 blocks. As a part of this Project, it has decided to carry out the process for selection of private entities to whom concessions for a school in each of the selected school may be awarded.

Ironically 390 blocks of Andhra Pradesh, 276 of West Bengal, 164 of Kerala, 140 of Gujarat, 107 of Karnataka have been identified though these states are literacy-wise much ahead of Bihar, which occupies the bottom place.

Though there is much demand of such schools in Bihar the number of blocks identified are very small. A large number of school students of Bihar study in other states, including Delhi. Parents have to pay through their nose to impart quality education to their children.

It remained a mystery as to why Bihar and Jharkhand, especially the Minority Concentrated Districts have been ignored in selecting the blocks.

Parwez Mohammad and Mohammad Aslam, social workers and Senior AMU Alumni attribute this to the institutional bias within the decision making.

They alleged that a section of the decision makers are trying hard to create Bihar as a labour colony for a cheap supply of labours in other parts of India.