About the Book

About Author

Contents

Preface

1. Development of Education During the British Rule:
Policy Documents
o The Charter Act of 1813
oMacaulay's Minute on Education 1835
oIndian Education Commission (Hunter Commission) 1882-83
oResolution of Govemment on Educational Policy 1904
oGopal Krishna Gokhale's Resolution 1910 and Elementary Education
Bill 1911
oGovernment Resolution on Education Policy 1913
oLala Lajpat Rai's Exposition 1918
oHartog Committee 1928
oGovernment ofIndiaAct 1935
oAbbot and Woods Report 1937
oFirst Congress of National Education (Wardha) 1937
oPost-war Educational Development in India (Sargent Report) 1944
oCABE Report-the Post-war Educational Development in India 1944

2. Development of Elementary Education: Independence to 1967
oFourteenth CABE Meeting 13-15 January 1948
oCommittee on the Ways and Means of Financing Educational
Development 1948-50
oCommittee on the Relationship between State Governments and
Local Bodies in the Administration of Primary Education 1951 .
oAssessment Committee on Basic Education 1955
oBasic Education Standing Committee of Cenral Advisory Board of
Education 1957
oFirst All India Educational Survey 1957
oNational Seminar on Orientation of Elementary Schools Towards the
Basic Pattern 1959
oTwenty-eight CABE Meeting-I 6-17 January 1961 New Delhi
oCommittee on the Pre-Primary Education in Mysore State 1961

oThirty-first CABE Meeting-II-12 October 1964 Bangalore
o Education _ommission 1964-66 (Kothari Commission)
o Second All India Educational Survey 1965
o Committee of Members of Parliament to Prepare Draft of Statement on National Policy on Education 1967

3. 1968 to 1985: Select Documents
oNational Policy on Education 1968
oNational Seminar _n Primary and Work-Oriented Education
(International Education Year) 1970
oStudy Group to Prepare Programme of Action for Development of the
Pre -School Child 1972.
oThird All India Educational Survey 1973
oNational Policy for Children 1974
oIshwarbhai Patel Review Committee 1977
oDraft National Policy on Education 1979
oNational Plan of Action for International Year of The Child 1979
oRevised 20-Point Programme 1982
oConference of Education Secretaries January 1983
oCentral Advisory Board of Education 39th Session June 6-7 1983 . oNational Commission on Teachers-I Chattopadhaya Commission
1983-85
oNCERT on Curriculum Load 1983-85
oStatus Report on Challenge of Education 1985
oChallenge of Action: A Policy Perspective. 1985
4. Commissions and Documents on Elementary Education:1986-1996
o National Policy on Education 1986
o Programme of Action for Implementation ofNPE 1986
o Innovations in Education 1986
o Fifth All India Educational Survey 1986-89
o National Curriculum for Elementary and Secondary Education:
A Framework 1988
o Education for All by 2000 1990
o Committee to Review the National Policy on Education (1986)
1990-91
o Central Advisory Board of Education 46th Session 1991
o Central Advisory Board of Education Working Group on Elementary Education 1991
o Committee on Minimum Levels of Learning (MLL) at Primary
Stage 1991
oCommittee to Review NPE (1986) and Report of the Committee to Review theNPE(I990-91)1991
o National Plan of Action 1992159
o National Plan of Action for the SAARC Decade of Girl Child 1991-2000
AD 1992163
oRevised National Policy on Education 1992166
oProgramme of Action on National Policy on Education 1992169
o National Advisory Committee on Learning without Burden 1992-93 oCABE Committee on Decentralised Management of Education 1993 197 . oGroup to Examine the Recommendations of the National Advisory
Committee on Learning without Burden 1993
o Sixth All India Educational Survey 1995
o Synergy Sub-Group on Primary Education and Literacy 1995
o Committee of Education Ministers on Making Elementary Education a
Fundamental Right 1997
oEducation Commission 1964-66 (Kothari Commission) Government of
India 1966

5. Elementary Education: 1997 Onwards
oNinth Five Year Plan 1997-2001 . Tenth Five Year Plan 2002-2007
o National Curriculum Framework for School Education (2000)
NCERT
o The Constitution (Eighty-Sixth Amendment) Act 2002
o "National Curriculum Framework 2005" NCERT (2005)
o CABE Committee on "Free and Compulsory Education Bill and other
Issues Related to Elementary. Education (2004-05)"
o National Knowledge Commission June 8 2005
o Sachar Committee Report 2006
o Conference of State Education Ministers April I I 2007

 

Additional Info.