Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Monday said the quality of higher education in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and few other states was “disappointing”.        

“The present condition of higher education is disappointing in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand,” she said at the fifth convocation of Lalit Narayan Mishra University at Darbhanga, stressing on the need of imparting education relevant with the changing times.

She lamented that the number of illiterates in India was maximum in the world, reports PTI. “There is a big gap between literate and the well-to-do in urban areas and illiterate and deprived sections in villages,” she said, emphasising on greater investment in education. There is an urgent need to pay attention to this area and in establishing an institutional machinery to ensure that education imparted was relevant with changing times, she said.