Patna, Apr 6 (PTI) The Bihar government has set upon an ambitious target of 100 per cent literary in the state by the next decadal census due in 2021, a top HRD official said today.At a meeting of the Bihar Literary Mission Authority (BLMA) attended by state HRD Minister P K Shahi and other officials, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that their mission should be to ensure that the state attains cent percent literary by the next decadal census in 2021, principal secretary (HRD) Anjani Kumar Singh said.It should further be ensured that the state be rated among the top five most literate states in the country by 2021, he said.It was also decided at the meeting that the HRD minister should be the chairman of the BLMA and the Panchayati Raj Minister its joint chairman from now onwards instead of the chief minister due to the latter’s hectic schedule.The state government will set up an integrated Human Resources Development Committee which would be headed by the chief minister himself, Singh said.The HRD Minister also spoke on the occasion and asked his department’s officials as well as those of the BLMA to work on a war-footing towards making Bihar a fully literate state and said that the area MLAs and MLCs should also be associated with the nodal body towards literacy.