Bihar School: Children's future in limbo, more than 5 dozen schools cease to exist due to lack of land - Bihar schools close, more than 50 schools face extinction due to land shortage

Updated: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:00 (IST) More than 50 schools in Bihar are on the verge of closure due to lack of land, jeopardizing the future of students. Due to non-availability of land, the existence of these schools is in danger and the education department is struggling to deal with this problem. The closure of schools will affect the education of a large number of students. The education department is trying to find a solution. Five dozen government schools in the district have been closed due to lack of land. Indicative photo Jagran Correspondent, Sasaram (Rohtas). The district administration failed to provide land to landless schools. This is the reason why the Education Department had to terminate the existence of 67 government schools in the district within the last six months. Most of the schools that ceased to exist and merged with nearby schools are newly created primary schools. Apart from this, there are some schools that have their own identity in the field of education. Now he is not left on the ground nor his name in the records. There are still more than 40 schools standing in this row, whose existence will end in the coming days. For the children of the village in question, the fact that there is a school there has become a story. The villages that were abolished with the condition that they will be resettled once they have their own land and buildings. Presently a school was found in Karakat block in the district, it was relocated after getting land and building. Remove advertisement Read-only news Five years ago, the department sent a proposal to head office to merge 122 landless schools. In the first phase, 15 state schools and in the second phase 52 state schools ceased to exist. Many times the department gave the opportunity to the district administration to provide adequate land for buildings to the landless schools which are shifted to other schools, but the officials attached to the Revenue Department could do nothing but strategize and give instructions. Land became available only for that school where the villagers voluntarily donated it, for which the amount for the construction of the building was approved by the department. Among the schools which have been merged so far, the girls and boys primary schools of Karan Sarai Mohalla of Sasaram city have also been included. At one time this school had its own identity. Girls’ Primary School operated at night before 1960.