The Patna High Court has directed the Bihar government to submit a report with detailed description of the measures taken to ensure learning and education of visually impaired students in the state. The petitioner’s counsel, Brisketu Sharan Pandey, submitted that a single-room centre for the visually impaired was currently operational at Jagdishpur, which could accommodate around 30 students.

Underlining the significance of the matter, the court extended the ambit of the petition to the whole of the state, in the interest of public, and asked the chief secretary to file a counter affidavit within three weeks, stating the measures taken by the government for the education of visually challenged students.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Anil Kumar Upadhyay gave the direction on a PIL filed by Raj Kumar Ranjan, seeking direction to the government to open a school for visually impaired girl students at Jagdishpur block of Bhagalpur district.