Senior RJD leader and the party's national vice-president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh today took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his Mann ki Baat of August 27, when he spoke on education.

Raghuvansh said Modi was just giving lectures on education and doing nothing to improve the system in India. 'In other countries, 40 per cent of the GDP is spent on education, but in India it is just one per cent. In March 2016 the GDP growth was 9.2 per cent and has now come down to 5.7 per cent. It means GDP has fallen by 3.5 per cent and the country is facing a loss of Rs 5.25 lakh crore,' Raghuvansh said. He was accompanied by party secretary general Mundrika Sigh, party disaster cell state president P.K. Choudhary and extremely backward class cell state president Rambali Singh Chandravanshi.

Raghuvansh said no country could develop without improvement in the education system. 'India has a population of 130 crore and just 300 universities, whereas US has 30 crore people and 5,700 universities. The worst part is that out of 250 of the world's best universities, India has none. The education system in India has collapsed and there are no teachers in colleges and universities,' Raghuvansh said. Dut to shortage of colleges and universities, coaching classes were mushrooming, he said.