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Scroll the video once and you’ll feel it: a camera pans over a rickety bamboo shack, kids on the mud floor, a single fan wheezing like a slow death. That clip exploded because it exposed an ugly truth: a “record” education allocation of roughly Rs 60,964 crore has not translated into functioning classrooms, teachers, toilets, or basic dignity for children.

This is not a budgeting glitch — it smells of grand political theater, diversionary statue projects, and contractors cashing in while students study under tin sheets and termites. Below are 7 savage ways the money vanished, the system failed, and Bihar’s future was sold on auction blocks.

1) The Phantom Rs 61,000 Crore: A Budget That Talks Big and Delivers Dust

The headline number is meant to impress — and it does. But a huge allocation means nothing when procurement, execution, and oversight are paper-thin. Audits and watchdog threads show line-items, “unspent” transfers, and ghost projects. The consequence: a ledger full of promises and classrooms full of empty air. Until audits break open where the cash actually went, that “record” figure reads like theater for tv cameras.

2) 15,000 Benchless Schools: Kids Learning Anatomy on Mud and Shame

RTE and dignity demand benches and desks. Instead, you get children huddled on the ground — 185 at a time in a single hut, per viral footage. Benches aren’t cosmetic; they’re retention, posture, and safety. When children sit on dirt, attendance drops, concentration dies, and futures erode. The Rs 60K crore budget should buy tables, not excuses.

3) Teacher Terror: One Guru for 46 Kids While Contracts and Ghost Staff Thrive

A functioning school needs teachers. Bihar’s classroom vacancies and contract-teacher irregularities mean pupils face quadruple the recommended student-teacher ratio. Millions in salary line items vanish into “ghost” rosters and phantom appointments. The result: classrooms without real teachers, lessons without continuity, and credentials without competence. A budget that hires ghosts is a budget that fails children.

4) Roofless Relics: Thousands of Schools Left Exposed to sun and Monsoon

Monsoon or summer, a roofless classroom is an existential threat. Thousands of schools lacking roofs or proper walls turn education into survival. The state allocates infrastructure money — yet tenders, delays, and shoddy contracting cause 5,000 locations to remain open-air tragedies. That’s not inefficiency; it’s a moral failure.

5) Women’s Sanitation Crisis: ‘Women-Centric’ Spending With No Private Latrines

You can declare a budget “pro-women” while letting adolescent girls drop out when they hit puberty. When WASH funds are misallocated or disappear, girls quit school—permanent casualties of political accounting. Buying cycles and photo-ops don’t fix the absence of doors on toilets. Rs 1,000 crore in slogans means nothing if a girl must choose privacy over education.

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The NEP and the “digital future” sell big dreams — smart boards, tablets, e-learning. Reality: 40% of schools still lack reliable power, let alone functional devices. Scorecards show solar panels installed and never activated, tendered tech that never boots up. Money flows into hollow “digital” projects while students can’t even plug in a fan. This is wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>digital PR, not wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>digital progress.

7) The Corruption Colosseum: Statues, Tenders, and the Great Diversion of Public Funds

Topline budgets mask bottom-line theft. Statues, high-value tenders, and phantom infrastructure become the diversionary theater that lets big money disappear. When accountability is weak, procurement fat cats dine well while classrooms rot. The CAG, audit reports, civil society threads, and viral exposés point to one hellish pattern: public funds rerouted from schooling into patronage. That’s not just bad governance — it’s theft from children.

🔥DON’T LET THIS SLIDE INTO THE NEXT HEADLINE

This isn’t a local scandal; it’s generational damage. A state can boast record allocations and still bankrupt its youth if spending is captured by patronage and PR. Bihar’s Rs 61,000 crore should have built futures — instead, it’s fed political architecture and left classrooms to the elements. Demand audits. Demand procurement transparency. Demand teacher accountability and functioning infrastructure. Money alone won’t educate a child; honesty, oversight, and political will will. Right now, those things are bankrupt.