BIHAR’S MAHILA SHIKSHAN KENDRAS When the Mahila Samakhya was introduced into the Bihar Education Project in 1992, there were objections. The MS programme, as it existed in other States such as Haryana and Rajasthan was a feminist oriented empowerment process, commonly understood to be a thrust for socio-political change. Some saw no connection between organising women’s collectives to understand their own social reality and the objective of filling the classrooms with eager six year olds. MS functionaries in other states strongly urged that, given the unsatisfactory condition...