The order issued on August 9 asks to ensure that morning prayers are held with immediate effect in over 76,000 government schools and government aided ones.
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The Bihar government has made it mandatory for students and staff for schools run by it to hold morning prayers in which state songs be crooned using loudspeakers to instill discipline and punctuality among them. An order to this effect for all Bihar government schools.
Principal Secretary, Education, R K Mahajan has issued the order to all district education officers (DEOs) and district programme officers (DPOs).
The order issued on August 9 asks to ensure that morning prayers are held with immediate effect in over 76,000 government schools and government aided ones.
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The purpose is to promote discipline and punctuality among the students and the staff in schools.
It is decided to hold ‘Chetna Satra/Prarthna Sabha’ in every school of the state using loudspeakers for qualitative running of the schools.
It also said lessons on moral values, inspiring stories/ anecdotes and newspaper reading should also be included during ‘Chetna Satra/Prarthna Sabha.’
The last period will be dedicated to hold sports/co-curricular activities, the official letter said.
According to PTI, R K Mahajan, in his letter, directed the DEOs to ask all the principals to arrange for a loudspeaker set and if a school does not have it, then it must buy the same. And if any school has the set which is out of order, then it must get it repaired, the letter added.
The principals can buy loudspeaker set from the school development fund/ students fund, said Mahajan, adding that each school would get money ranging between Rs 12,500 and Rs 1 lakh in 2018-19 fiscal depending on the number of students enrolled.
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