Committees and Commissions : Elementary Education: Select Documents

Contents: Preface. 1. Development of education during the British Rule: policy documents. 2. Development of elementary education: Independence to 1967. 3. 1968 to 1985: select documents. 4. Commissions and documents on elementary education: 1986-1996. 5. Elementary education: 1997 onwards.

From the Preface: "Acts and Minutes, Dispatches and Commissions but nothing under the banner of policies were landmarks of British education in India resulting the crawled literacy rate of less than 20 percent in 1947. After independence, Government of India articulated the educational policies and in framing these policies various committees and commissions played the advisory role to the government, to achieve the goal of universalization of elementary education also. More than half of the battle is already won, and now the next target is \'Scheme for Universalisation of Secondary Education\'.

This volume is a compilation of such reports from British period to till date. It is divided into five parts--colonial period, from independence to 1967, 1968 to 1985, 1986 to 1997-98 and 1998 onwards. The book may be useful to students of education, interested in development of elementary education system.

The relevance of this book will be find by all those with a stake in teaching and growth of children."