— Attachment Content: Question_Hour_24.docx —CM reminds oppn of their reduced strength in assemblyMinister says Nitish govt custodian of democratic valuesJai Narain PandeyPatna: The opposition on Tuesday stormed the well and created a ruckus over the police lathicharge on protesting chowkidars and ‘dafadars’ on Monday. CM Nitish Kumar reminded the opposition of their reduced strength in the House compared to 202 MLAs of the ruling NDA and asked RJD’s Bhai Birendra not to create “nuisance as they had done nothing for anyone during their regime”. CM Nitish said the opposition was making baseless statements. “While you (RJD) were in power, you did nothing. We fuelled the fire of development in Bihar. Bihar is now progressing rapidly. The opposition is making meaningless statements. People wouldn’t leave their homes in the evening during their rule. We kept them together twice, but when they started creating trouble, we threw them out. Now we will never go with them,” Nitish said. Speaker Prem Kumar summoned marshals and ordered them to remove placards from the protesting members. Parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary assured the House that the govt would take the issue of chowkidars and dafadars seriously. As soon as the House proceedings began, RJD MLA Kumar Sarvjeet raised the lathicharge issue. They also raised slogans like “lathi, goli ki sarkar nahi chalegi”.Minister Choudhary said if the govt was against the protests, it would have stopped them. “The govt will consider their demands. As far as the chowkidars and dafadars are concerned, the decision taken by the Nitish Kumar govt earlier is historic. If they have any demands, the govt will talk to them,” he said.Choudhary also told the opposition members that the freedom to protest does not allow any organisation to disrupt any rule or public order.“Causing inconvenience to the common citizens and damaging govt property is not a part of peaceful demonstration,” the minister said.5% for EWS in STET: BJP MLA Mithilesh Tiwari demanded 5% relaxation in qualifying marks for economically weaker section (EWS) candidates in the STET exams and cited a Sept 16, 2025 Patna high court direction to the govt to look into it. Education minister Sunil Kumar said there is a provision of 10% for EWS, which is applicable in TRE. “We will review the high court order/direction and if there are any shortcomings in the govt’s policy, we will take action accordingly,” he said.Shortage of computer teachers: Saharsa MLA I P Gupta said the state has shortage of computer teachers though arrangements for computer education have been made in all govt schools from classes 6 to 10. Education minister Sunil said the govt has prioritized the appointment of Physics, Chemistry, and Math teachers first and will address the shortage of computer teachers after that.CPI(ML) MLA Sandeep Saurabh said there is a shortage of 26,000 computer teachers, while only 460 vacancies have been announced. The minister said more than 45,000 teachers will be appointed in TRE-4 and 407 of them will be computer teachers. He said till now 8,553 computer teachers have been appointed. On the imbalance in student-teacher ratio in schools, the minister said teachers are being posted by a committee headed by the DMs. The districts will be instructed to correct the student-teacher ratio, so that there are not less teachers in one school and more teachers in the other, he said.
