NCP president Sharad Pawar on Monday said though expansion of education has taken place in Maharashtra, adequate efforts were not made to elevate the quality of teaching. Addressing an event on renaming of two schools here, Pawar said Maharashtra has been at the forefront in the education sector in the country. "I have been at the helm of several educational institutes but I have experienced that we all expanded education in the state but no efforts were taken to elevate the quality," he said.

To improve quality of education is a challenge before everybody and in the coming years, there is a need to create students who can face tough situations in their lives, the former Union minister said. "In all this process, the teacher's role is very important," Pawar said. One of the schools was named after businessman Cyrus Poonawalla. Pawar said nowadays 100 per cent results are common in schools.