NEW DELHI: The provincial state government of Bihar, one of the most backward states of India has admitted that nearly 13000 of its schools have no facility for drinking water. Bihar's education minister P K Sahi, made this admission while addressing a seminar on Children's Rights, where he also admitted that a number of government schools in Bihar also do not have toilets, not even for girl students. He nevertheless claimed that the government is now laying stress on improving the infrastructure in government schools although this remained a major challenge. Sahi said another next to impossible task for the government, was to meet the demands of the new Right to Education law that the Federal government has passed entailing compulsory education for everyone. He said, implementing the law in Bihar would require a whopping hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Bihar has about 72,000 government schools, both primary and secondary, with approximately 350,000 teachers. Sahi said, the number of teachers will have to be doubled to implement the compulsory education law recently passed by the Federal government. The seminar was organized by UNICEF, jointly with Chanakya National Law University and the Child Protection Commission of Bihar.