Patna: The Bihar government has approved the recruitment of 6,656 teachers across newly planned degree colleges as part of a large-scale expansion of higher education infrastructure in the state, officials said.
According to an order issued by the higher education department, teaching will be introduced across 16 subjects in 208 newly proposed colleges, with staffing structured around two teachers for each of 15 core subjects and one teacher for environmental science. Each college will also have a principal, taking the total teaching staff per institution to 32.
The recruitment drive, which is expected to begin shortly, will cover Hindi, English, Economics, History, Psychology, Geography, Political Science, Home Science, Sociology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Commerce, alongside Environmental Science.
The initiative forms part of a broader government plan to establish degree colleges in all 208 administrative blocks that currently lack such institutions. The proposal has already received approval from the state council of ministers. Officials estimate the annual financial implication of the exercise at Rs 938 crore.
In total, 9,152 posts have been sanctioned across the new colleges, combining both teaching and non-teaching roles.
Alongside faculty appointments, 2,496 non-teaching staff will be recruited. Each college will have 12 non-teaching employees, including one upper division clerk, three lower division clerks, one assistant librarian and seven laboratory in-charges. The lab posts will be distributed across physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, psychology, geography and home science.
State officials say the expansion is intended to address longstanding gaps in access to higher education in rural and semi-urban areas, where many administrative blocks currently have no degree-granting institutions.
