(v) Study Tour Scheme for Youth and Students Leaders.-(1) Kumari Keziamma George of Y.W.C.A., New Delhi; (2) Shri R. Kothari, Secretary, 'Krida', Children and Youth Organization, Baroda.

(vi) Study Tour Scheme for Teachers' in Adult Education. (1) Mr. A. C. Ferrer, Supervisor in Community and Adult

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Education Division, Tarlac, Philippines; (2) Mr. J. M. Rutashobya, Senior Community Development Officer, Dares-Salaam, Tanganyika; (3) Shri Gour Prasad Das, Principal Junior Cooperative Training Centre, Gopalpur on Sea, Orissa.

(vii) Study and Travel Grants for Organizers of Out-of-school Educational Movements.- (1) Miss Marijike Geertsema, Teacher and Course Leader, Bergen, The Netherlands; (2) Mr. Henricus C. A. Van Osch, Head of Cultural Affairs, Department of Municipality, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

(viii) Study Tour Scheme for Workers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.-While the study tour to Japan and Malaya awarded to the three, nominees of the Indian National Trade Union Congress has been postponed to March-April, 1965, their four nominees proceeded on a study tour of Japan and Malaysia in September, 1964. Two nominees of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha, Bombay proceeded on a study tour of the Philippines in April 1964.

(ix) Study Tour Scheme for Women Adult Education Leaders.- (1) Mrs. Perin Ferrao, Headmistress, Nutan Bal Vihar, Nagpur; and (2) Miss Shoshanna Prabhakar Padhye, Trade Unionist and Joint Secretary, Samajvadi Mahila Sabha, Bombay.

6. Unesco Collection of Representative Work of World Literature Indian Series.-In the field of literature, Unesco is endeavouring to encourage translation of works representative of the various cultures into most widely used languages. The Commission is participating in the programme for disseminating literature of the Orient to the general public in the Occident. Translation and publication in this programme is implemented in collaboration with the Sahitya Akademi. In the year under review, the translations have been published of Kavitavali by Tulsidas in English and Chemmeen by Thakazhi Sivashankara Pillai in Dutch. Other translations in progress are : Selections from the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Upanishads and Mahabaratha, Panchtantra Subhasita Ratnakosa, and Therigatha and Theragatha-Pithaka Disclosures in English, Selections from the Rig Veda, and Nala Damyanti in German and Panchatantra and Chemmeen in French.

B.LIASION AGENCY

7. The Commission continued to develop and strengthen its relation with Unesco, other national Commissions, international organizations, foreign organizations and individuals and organizations and individuals in India interested in the common ideals of Unesco and engaged in activities in the fields of Unesco's competence. In fulfilment of its role as a liaison agency, the Commission is called upon to assist and participate in activities which are varied in content and magnitude. However, listed below are a few of the activities undertaken by the Commission in establishment and development of such contacts.

7.1. Participation in the Programmes of Other National Commis- sions.-The Commission arranged for the participation of Indian child- ren in the (i) Tenth World School Children's Art Exhibition in Seoul,

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Korea (May 1964), an annual feature of the Korean National Commission for Unesco, (ii) Fifth World School Children's Art Exhibition in Tokyo (August 1964) organized by the Unesco Art Education League in collaboration with the Japanese National Commission for Unesco and (iii) International Exhibition of Children's paintings entitled : The Child and the World in Prague, Czechoslovakia (October 1964) on the request of Czechoslovakia National Commission for Unesco. The Commission received an Exhibition of Polish Poster Art from the Polish National Commission for Unesco for circulation in India. The Exhibition was inaugurated in New Delhi in October 1964 and is to be taken to other cities as well.

7.2. Participation in Programmes of International Organizations.- At the invitation of the Unesco Mission in Madagascar, material was sent for an International Exhibition of Textbooks for Secondary Edu- cation, particularly relating to scientific disciplines to Tanararive (June 1964). At the request of the Unicef Committee of the United Nations Association of Canada, the Commission forwarded a selection of children's art to the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto (August 1964). An International Children's Art Exhibition received from the Unesco Institute for Education, Hamburg was inaugurated at the National Children's Museum and Bal Bhawan on U.N. Day-24th October 1964 and was on display for ten days. A photographic exhibition on the Art of Writing prepared by Unesco has also been received.

7.3. Assistance in the Programmes of Institutions/Individuals in India.-At the request of the Udipi Sangeet Sabha, the Commission despatched the Unesco World Art Series Albums and Unesco Art Slides and Art Education slides for the Kanara Art Exhibition organized on the occasion of the Mysore State Art Teachers Seminar in September 1964. The Commission also contacted the diplomatic missions of France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. and arranged for the reproductions of paintings and films on art to be sent to the Sabha. Unesco, publications on the life and culture of other countries were sent for exhibition at the Seminar on the Role of Teachers Training Colleges in promoting International Understanding held in Chandigarh in November 1964. An exhibition of Unesco publications and visual material on Unesco, and on education in other countries was displayed at a teachers' get-together in New Delhi on the 16th January in which 500 teachers and principals of secondary schools participated.

7.4. Visits

7.4.1. Visit of Deputy Director-General of Unesco to India.- Dr. Malcolm S. Adiseshiah, Deputy Director-General, Unesco paid a visit to India on April 5-11, 1964 on official mission. The purpose of his visit was to review the progress of various projects which are receiving technical assistance under the United Nations expanded programme of technical assistance and UN Special Fund. He discussed with the Indian authorities the prospects for technical assistance under the UN expanded technical programme of Unesco for 1965-66. He also delivered a lecture on Unesco's Programmes at a reception given by the India International Centre.

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Director-General, National Ministry of Education, France, visited India from August 3-6, 1964 on his way back to Paris from Bangkok. In a meeting arranged with the officials of the Ministry of Education, University Grants Commission, Planning Commission and National Council for Educational Research and Training, he exchanged views on the problems of secondary education and also gave an account of the educational set-up in France.

7.4.3. Visits of Officials of Other National Commission.- Officials of the National Commissions who came to this country are as follows : (1) the Russian Delegation to the Fourth Regional Conference of Asian National Commissions for Unesco held in Bangkok on their way back to their country in February 1964; (ii) His Excellency S. K. Romanovsky, the Chairman of the Soviet National Commission for Unesco in February-March 1964; (iii) Mrs. M. Lambart, Director-General, Israeli Commission for Unesco on her way back from the Fourth Regional Conference of Asian National Commission and (iv) Madame M. Paronetto Valier, Secretary-General of the Italian National Commission. These visits were useful in strengthening relations between the National Commissions and in providing opportunity for an exchange of views on matters of common interest in respect of Unesco's programme and activities.

7.4.4. Visits of Other Foreign Experts.-Among these mention may be made of (i) Mr. Richard Lewis of the U.S.A., Editor of a Children's Poetry Project; (ii) Mr. Nak Kwan Kim, Economic Affairs Officer, Research and Planning Division, ECAFE, Bangkok; and (iii) Mr. Chester S. Williams, Unesco Educational Planning Adviser, Ministry of Education, Western Samoa and Director, Ethnic Music Section, World Tapes for Education.

7.4.5. Visits of Indian Officials and Experts to Other Countries.- (i) On the invitation of the Rumanian National Commission for Unesco, Shri Ravindra Verma, M.P., attended an international meeting of experts dedicated to the problems of educating the youth in the spirit of peace, mutual respect and understanding among peoples, held in Bucharest between 18th to 28th June, 1964. (ii) Shri Veda Prakasha, Deputy Director of the Regional Centre for Training of Educational Planners, Administrators and Supervisers in Asia, New Delhi visited Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan and Korea during September-October 1964 to study educational development in these countries before proceeding to the U.S.A. for a study of educational planning in general and in SouthEast Asia in particular, as part of the programme covered by his research award at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. His programme in the countries visited was arranged by the respective National Commissions on the request of the Indian National Commission. (iii) On the invitation of the French National Commission for. Unesco, Dr. Grace Morely, Director, National Museum, New Delhi participated in the International Colloque on the educational and cultural role of museums held at Paris from 23-27 November, 1964. (iv) On the invitation of the Minister of Culture and Guidance, Republic of Iraq, Dr. Narayana Menon, Secretary, Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, participated in the Seminar on Arab Music held in Baghdad in November 1964.

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culture in importing materials for their bona fide educational use. Under a contract with Unesco, the Commission assumed full responsibility for the operation of the Unesco Coupon Scheme in India. The Commission received a sum of $ 1,700 under this contract from Unesco. The Commission has so far supplied coupons worth over Rs. 1,75,000 and by the end of the current financial year the figure is expected to reach Rs. 2,46,926.

C. ADVICE TO THE GOVERNMENT

8. The Commission's function to render advice to the Government of India on matters relating to Unesco is mainly discharged through conferences and meetings. Mention may be made here of the following:

8.1. Regional Conference of Asian National Commissions: In res- ponse to an invitation from the Thailand National Commission for Unesco, the Commission participated in the Fourth Regional Conference of Asian National Commissions held in Bangkok from February 10-15, 1964. The Conference reviewed the progress made in the implementation of the Karachi Plan on Primary Education and made specific recommendations to National Commissions and to the Asian member-States to expand primary education and to promote the quality of teaching. An important recommendation of the Conference was to recommend to Unesco the possibility of setting up a regional office for liaison and consultation between Asian member-States of Unesco for the implementation of Unesco's programmes in Asia and to develop a consultative machinery for mutual problems concerning the Asian States. The Indian National Commission offered to host the Fifth Conference of the Asian National Commissions in 1966 or in 1967 in India. The Indian delegation consisting of 3 members was led by Shri P. N. Kirpal, Secretary-General of the Indian National Commission.

8.2. Sixth Meeting of the Indian National Commission for Unesco.- The Indian National Commission for Unesco, met in New Delhi on March 21-22, 1964 under the Chairmanship of Shri M.C. Chagla, President of the Commission. The recommendations made at the two-day Conference were directed to Unesco, to the Indian National Commission for Unesco, and to the Government of India.

8.2.1. It was suggested that Unesco should take up the abolition of illiteracy in areas of overwhelming illiteracy in the world as a major project of an urgent nature. It should strive to arouse the conscience of the world and mobilise world resources so that world illiteracy could be reduced to minor proportion. The Conference endorsed the recommendation of the National Advisory Committee on the Unesco's Major Project for the Mutual Appreciation of Eastern and Western Cultural Values regarding the extension of the Major Project beyond 1966 when it was scheduled to come to a close. The Conference emphasised the importance of the preparation of reading and visual materials on the life and culture of India primarily for the use of institutions in other countries. The Conference noted that a large provision of Unesco funds are directed towards the meeting of administrative costs and recommended that the scale and effectiveness of the programme operation should be strengthened by economising on such costs and by the decentralisation

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of programme operations. To meet the acute shortage of foreign ex- change needed for the development of education, science and culture in the developing countries, the Conference suggested that Unesco should build up an adequate fund with the cooperation of prospectus member States of Unesco and with other United Nations Agencies. The fund would enable developing countries to obtain essential training facilities and materials by expending their own currencies. Other recommendations were also made on natural science, social science, mass-communication, cultural activities and humanities.

9. Meetings of the Executive Board of the Commission.-The Eleventh Meeting of the Executive Board of the Indian National Commission was held on February 3, 1964. The Board selected 25 non-Governmental organisations which had an established programme of work falling within the field of competence of Unesco as Associate Members of the Indian National Commission.

9.1. The twelfth Meeting of the Executive Board was held on 1st February 1965. Items on agenda of the meeting included consideration of applications from non-governmenal organisations, for associate membership of the Commission, receiving a report on the programme of education for international understanding and discussion on the promotion of national commission. Mr. Rene Maheu, Director-General of Unesco who was in Delhi it that time also met members of the Board.

SECTION II

GOVERNMENT'S RELATIONS WITH UNESCO

10. The Government of India continued to develop and strengthen its relations with Unesco. On the one hand, the Government gave all practicable support to the Organisation in its cultural, educational and scientific activities and on the other received financial and technical help from the Organisation for developing national and regional programmes and projects. The multifarious nature of Unesco activities involved the active participation of a number of governmental authorities in the implementation of its programmes. The Ministry of Education continued to perform its role as coordinating agency and took up the implementation of such of the activities as came within its purview.

11. Sixty-seven, Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Sessions of the Executive Board of Unesco.-The 67th Session of the Executive Board of Unesco was held in Paris from May 4, 1964 to June 6, 1964. Shri Prem N. Kirpal, Education Secretary, deputised for Shrimati Indira Gandhi, the Indian Member of the Board. The 68th Session of the Executive Board of Unesco took place in Paris from the September 29, 1964 to the November 19, 1964. Shrimati Indira Gandhi, who completed her four year term on the Board on October 28, 1964 was succeeded by Shri Prem N. Kirpal. The 69th Session of the Executive Board of Unesco was held at Paris from the November 20 to 21, 1964. Shri Prem N. Kirpal, the Indian Member of the Board, attended the meeting.

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Session of the General Conference of Unesco. Shri M. C. Chagla, Minister of Education led the delegation. The other delegates were Suit. Indira Gandhi, Minister for Information and Broadcasting; Shri Prem N. Kirpal, Secretary (Education), Ministry of Education: and Dr. S. Husain Zaheer, Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. The Indian delegation among others, was also assisted by Shri B. N. Malhan, Deputy Secretary-General, Indian National Commission for Cooperation with Unesco (Secretary- General of the Delegation). The Indian delegation played an important part in the deliberations of the Conference. Shri Prem N. Kirpal, the Indian candidate, was elected by a very large majority to the Executive Board of Unesco. Subsequently Shri Kirpal was also elected Chairman of the Programme and External Relations Commission of the Executive Board. The following are the principal proposals made or mainly promoted by the Indian Delegation :

(i) That the spirit of universality should distinguish Unesco's publications and their quality and effectiveness should be constantly improved and that narrow, legal or dogmatic restrictions upon the exercise of the creative talent of the writers of these publications should not be imposed. This view was accepted by the General Conference.

(ii) That in view of the important contribution that international non-governmental organisations are making to the realisation Unesco's objectives and the execution of its programme, the scope of the Organisation and activities of these organisations should be broadened so as to include the continents of Africa and Asia. This view was accepted by the General Conference.

(iii) That Unesco's action should concentrate on the teaching of science and languages. It was agreed that in the developing countries curriculum planning and teaching methods must take into account the rapid progress made by science and technology.