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The education department should prepare it in a year. “During Azad’s 10-year stint as the country’s first education minister, institutions as University Grants Commission (UGC) and IITs were established,” the CM said.“A book on Azad is a must. He said the fertility rate among intermediate pass women in the state stood at 1.6 against the national average of 1.7.“The practice of child marriage is bad. PATNA: Chief minister (CM) Nitish Kumar on Sunday asked the education department to prepare a book on the life and contributions of the country’s first education minister Abul Kalam Azad and distribute them among the students of government schools in the state.Addressing a function organised by the education department to celebrate Shiksha Diwas that coincides with the birth anniversary of Azad, the CM said Azad should be clubbed with Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the race for country’s great freedom fighters. A book on the life of Mahatma Gandhi has already been distributed among the government school students,” the CM said, adding familiarity of schoolchildren and teachers with vignettes from the lives of two great freedom fighters would help improve their vision about the future.The CM said after the state government started observing November 11 as Shiksha Diwas in 2007, the Centre followed the suit the next year..