BEC — Bihar Education Code, 1961

IIntroduction§ 1–64A20 sections

1Definitions
2Public and private management
3Aided and unaided Institutions
4Classification of Educational Institutions
5Different kinds of colleges
6Different kinds of schools
7Functions of Different Institutions
8Educational Policy of the State Government
9Religious Neutrality
10Medium of Instruction
12The provisions made in the Plan and Non-Plan Budgets of Education Department, with respect to the pay of establishment and other charges in regard to the subjects required now to be dealt by the new Directorate, will, after the new Directorate has been set-up, be deemed to have been transferred from the control of the Directorate of Social and Youth Welfare and in modification of previous orders of Government on the subjects, the latter will also be a Controlling Officer in respect of expenditure from the budget heads concerned the details of which appear in the statement embodied in Annexure III. The arrangement will continue till such time that separate budget head is opened with the concurrence of Accountant-General, Bihar regard to subjects to be dealt by the new Directorate and the Director of Social and Youth Welfare is declared as the Controlling Officer in respect thereof. Till then the cost in account of pay, allowances etc., of the officers and staff at the headquarters of the Directorate of Social and Youth Welfare, will be met from the appropriate unit under the budget head "28-Education - E - General - Direction"
13It will appear from the above that the posts required for the headquarters the Directorate of Social and Youth Welfare, other than those of the Accountant and cashier, have been created either by transfer thereto from the Directorate of Public Instruction or by keeping in abeyance an equivalent post in that Directorate. The Additional cost on the setting up of the new Directorate will thus be only Rs. 21,580 recurring and Rs. 20,000 non-recurring, as per details given in the statement appended thereto (Annexure IV.) To enable immediate expenditure in this regard being met, a sum of Rs. 35,000 (Rs. 15,000 recurring and Rs. 20,000 nonrecurring) has been taken from the State Contingency Fund sanctioned in Finance Department memo. no. 1024 dated the 11th August 1962. Necessary provision in this regard will be made in the Supplementary Statement of Expenditure for 1962-63. Until such time that a separate budget head in opened, the cost in this regard will be debitable to the appropriate unit under the head "28-Education - E - General - Direction" in current year's budget
14Government have been pleased to decide that, on the transfer thereof to the new Directorate of Social and Youth Welfare, the posts of Divisional Social Education Organisers, District Social Education Organiser and Lady Social Education Organisers, will be re-designated as Regional Social and Youth Welfare Officers. District Social and Youth Welfare Officers and Lady Social Welfare Organisers respectively. In regard to the posts of Male Social Education Organisers in the C.D. Blocks, Government have been pleased to decide that these should be abolished according as the present incumbents thereto are absorbed in suitable posts in Education and Gram Panchayat Departments, and the work performed at present by these Social Education Organisers, distributed between the Sub-Inspectors of Schools (to be designated hereafter as Block Education Extension Officers) and the Gram Panchayat Supervisors in such a manner that the former are entrusted with the work relating only to the organisation and inspection of Social Education Centres and Public Libraries and the remaining work is entrusted to the latter. It has further been decided that, in regard to the work so entrusted to them the Sub-Inspectors of Schools (to be designated hereafter as Block Education Extension Officers) and the Gram Panchayat Supervisors will be responsible to their respective District Social and Youth Welfare Officers
15It has been decided that, until the existing Male Social Education Organisers have been absorbed in other posts, they will continue to work as such. With the setting up of the Directorate, their services will also be transferred hereto and will be at its disposal for the remaining period to work as Social Education Organisers
54BApplication of District Education Fund. - The District Education Fund shall, subject to such rules as may be prescribed by the State Government be applicable to the following objects, namely :
54CAccounts of District Education Fund, how to be kept and published. - Account books of the District Education Fund shall be kept by the District Superintendent of Education
62APower of State Government to appoint District Superintendent of Education and other officers. - The State Government may appoint for each district a District Superintendent of Education and such other officer or officers to assist him as it thinks fit and their establishment and may transfer the Superintendent and the officers from one district to another
62BControl over establishment of schools to which grants-in-aid are made. - Subject to the rules made by the State Government in this behalf, the appointment, posting and promotion of the masters, assistant masters and other establishments of schools to which grants-in-aid are made shall be made, and disciplinary action including removal and dismissal, against them shall be taken, by the District Superintendent of Education in consultation with the District Board
62CProcedure in case of difference of opinion between District Board and District Superintendent of Education. - (1) If there is any difference of opinion between the District Board and the District Superintendent of Education on the question of the removal or dismissal of any member of the establishment of any school the matter shall be referred to such authority as may be prescribed in this behalf, by a general or special order, by the State Government and the decision of such authority shall be final
64AThe District Board may, subject to any rules, made by the State Government under this Act

IIIGovernment Professional Colleges§ 160–17920 sections

IVSchools for General Instruction§ 200–21820 sections

VChapter V§ 458–47720 sections

VIOriental Education§ 483–50220 sections

VIIHostels and Messes§ 505–52420 sections

VIIIChapter VIII§ 555–57420 sections

IXScholarships§ 637–65620 sections

XThe Board of Secondary Education, The Board of Bihar Basic Education. The Text-Bokk and Education Literature Committee. The Board of Adult (Social) Education. The State Board of Physical and Health Education. The Rashtra Bhasha Parishad. The School Examination Committee. The Board of Sanskrit Education. The Board of Cultural Education (Sanskritik Shiksha Parishad), Bihar.§ 697–75320 sections

XIDepartmental Organisation and Procedure.§ 794–81320 sections

Bihar Education Code, 1961

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