The Bihar government will launch a programme ‘Mission Daksh’ in December for nearly 25 lakh children lagging woefully behind their peers in schools with some of them incapable of reading simple Hindi words despite having reached upper primary classes.

• As part of the programme, ‘Mission Daksh’, the state Education Department has directed teachers to intensively mentor such students, in batches of not more than five, with the “warning” that any laxity will cause them to face action. 
• Additional Chief Secretary of Education KK Pathak wrote to all the district magistrates (DMs) on November 21, requesting them to supervise the progress of the programme in their areas on a daily basis from December 1. 
• District-wise monitoring committees, headed by DMs, would be formed for the effective execution of ‘Mission Daksh’, it said.