Nearly 200,000 teachers in Bihar draw a salary less than that of a peon in the government. Teachers with post graduate degrees teaching primary to higher secondary levels, draw Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 4,000 less than a Class Four employee. In 2005, the Bihar High Court heavily censured the state’s educational system and politicians, blaming them for having produced generations of illiterates by not appointing any primary school teachers since 1990.