Disagreement in NDA? Bihar’s Mannequin Faculties to be painted saffron, JD(U) raises considerations | India Information
4 min learnPatnaJul 20, 2026 05:20 AM IST
The Bihar authorities’s resolution to color all 551 Mannequin Faculties within the state saffron is going through questions not simply from the Opposition, but in addition from the BJP’s main ruling alliance companion, the JD(U).
The Mannequin Faculties, renamed Saraswati Vidya Niketan (courses 9 to 12), have been formally launched by Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Sunday at an occasion in Begusarai. The CM posted on X: “We’ve heralded a brand new age in schooling by inaugurating 551 Saraswati Vidya Niketan from Begusarai, the land of poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar.”
The state authorities mentioned these faculties have been outfitted with fashionable digital infrastructure, e-libraries, and good school rooms. They may also present free JEE and NEET teaching alongside stay interactive courses.
Nonetheless, the choice to color all these faculties saffron, changing the prevailing pink, sky blue, or yellow, has drawn criticism.
The Bihar schooling division, in an order issued to those faculties, directed them to undertake the saffron palette instantly.
The Mannequin Faculties, renamed Saraswati Vidya Niketan (courses 9 to 12), have been formally launched by Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Sunday at an occasion in Begusarai. (Specific Picture)
Expressing concern, JD(U) chief spokesperson Neeraj Kumar mentioned, “Training has no color. It should align solely with the spirit enshrined within the Preamble of the Structure, not with any particular color on faculty partitions. Our different concern is that the names of the land donors for a number of faculties are being positioned under the ‘Saraswati Vidya Niketan’ signage. Ideally, the donors’ names ought to precede the brand new identify.”
The JD(U) is a part of the BJP-led NDA authorities in Bihar.
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A headmaster of a Mannequin College, talking on the situation of anonymity, mentioned faculty authorities have been requested to color the buildings saffron on the earliest.
“Earlier, there have been no particular directives on color. It was once yellow, pink, and even sky blue occasionally. Of late, the colleges have largely been painted pink. Nonetheless, these selections have been left to the headmaster’s discretion. The brand new schooling division letter specifies that there should be uniformity throughout all mannequin faculties. Whereas the outside partitions should be saffron, the inside classroom partitions need to be white, and the principle gate should be painted golden,” the headmaster mentioned.
Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the course of the inauguration of a brand new Authorities Diploma School in Bhagalpur. (ANI/File)
Opposition slams govt
Opposition events have criticised the transfer, calling it the “starting of the saffronisation of schooling”.
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RJD nationwide spokesperson Subodh Kumar Mehta advised The Indian Specific: “We noticed it coming. It’s nothing however the starting of the saffronisation of schooling. That is the RSS mannequin of schooling. The day the BJP-led NDA authorities determined to rename Mannequin Faculties as Saraswati Vidya Niketan, we might sniff the RSS agenda.”
Bihar Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari mentioned: “The BJP is adept at altering colors. They’re making an attempt to present schooling a hard and fast color, which is detrimental to democracy. It additionally indicators that Bihar has entered the post-Nitish Kumar period. The BJP is slowly strolling into the RSS lure.”
‘Power and positivity’
Defending the transfer, BJP state vp Santosh Pathak mentioned the selection of color represents “power and positivity”.
“The Opposition is unnecessarily politicising a progressive infrastructure improve that may profit hundreds of scholars,” he mentioned.
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Earlier, Bihar Training Minister Mithilesh Tiwari had mentioned that the Opposition was selecting to “see every little thing by means of an RSS prism as a substitute of trying on the large-scale instructional reforms being carried out”.
