Bihar model schools makeover: Principals vow to follow renaming, repainting directives

In view of the Bihar government’s recent decision to repaint and rename all 551 model schools from class 9-12 in all blocks of the State as “Saraswati Vidya Niketan”, the schools have started painting the exterior walls with the instructed paint of “sunrise” colour, which prominently looks as saffron with which the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) identifies with.

The exterior walls of B.P. High School in Begusarai, where Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, along with State Education Minister Mithilesh Tiwari, had visited on July 19, 2026, and announced the renaming and repainting of all the model schools, were painted with the “sunrise” colour. The instructed name was also printed on polymer plastic sheets, by spending lakhs of rupees in “just three-days haste”. However, school principal Kamini Kumari wondered why the schools, that were painted afresh only few days ago, had to be repainted by a new government’s directive.