PATNA, March 23 -- Bihar governor Lt Gen (Rtd) Syed Aata Hasnain will hold his first meeting to review the higher education scenario, which remained the Achilles heel for the Nitish Kumar government, with the vice chancellors, education minister and other department officials at Raj Bhawan on March 30, said a senior Raj Bhawan official.

Having got the bureaucratic feedback on Saturday from chief secretary Pratyaya Amrit on the state of affairs in the higher education sphere and the new initiatives, including creation of a separate higher education department a few months ago and move to align state institutions with the Union ministry of education's centralised Samarth Portal, the governor would now assess the ground realities for a road...