- By Ritesh Kumar
- Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:24 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Bihar Schools Timings Changed: The Bihar Education Department has announced a reduction in school timings across the state in response to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's commitment to address issues regarding long school hours. Schools will now run six hours a day, from 10 am to 4 pm, starting immediately, according to a late-Tuesday circular from Kanhaiya Prasad Srivastava, the Director of Secondary Education.
Earlier in the day, the chief minister informed the assembly that government-run schools would shorten their current eight-hour day from 9 am to 5 pm by two hours. Moreover, he stated that the new government school hours would be 10 am to 4 pm.
His assurance came amid uproarious scenes in the assembly by opposition members, who entered the well of the House, protesting the “inhuman” timings. “The timings of schools for academic activities should be from 10 am to 4 pm only… it should not be from 9 am to 5 pm,” he said. “This is wrong,” he said about the existing school timings. “I will immediately call the competent officer of the department and will direct him to change the timings. You (opposition members) should have told me earlier. Now the new timings will be from 10 am to 4 pm,” Kumar said, as reported by news agency PTI.
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When the JD(U) was in the Mahagathbandhan, the RJD's Chandra Sekhar, then-education minister, released the timings. The new school schedule was announced by the education department in November of last year, and it took effect on December 1.
In addition to the specific times of the classes, the guidelines also mentioned the disciplinary actions that would be taken against teachers who did not adhere to the new schedule.