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SAMAGRA SHIKSHA :-
SAMAGRA SHIKSHA aims to achieve universal quality education with equity. The organization
is responsible for making elementary education stronger by improving education standard
in elementary schools. Encouraging school age children to join school and preventing
dropouts from school is also its responsibility.The council has District Offices
in 38 districts of Bihar. The main office is located in Patna.
Nalanda is one of the District Level office of Bihar Education Project. It
has 20 block level offices in every blocks of Nalanda.
Nalanda was an acclaimed Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery in the ancient kingdom
of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India. The site is located about 95 kilometres
southeast of Patna near the town of Bihar Sharif, and was a centre of learning from
the fifth century CE to1200 CE.
It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The highly formalized methods of Vedic learning
helped inspire the establishment of large teaching institutions such as Taxila,
Nalanda, and Vikramashila which are often characterised as India’s early universities.
Nalanda flourished under the patronage of the Gupta Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries
and later under Harsha, the emperor of Kannauj.The liberal cultural traditions inherited
from the Gupta age resulted in a period of growth and prosperity until the ninth
century. The subsequent centuries were a time of gradual decline, a period during
which the tantric developments of Buddhism became most pronounced in eastern India
under the Pala Empire.
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