ADMINISTRATION
Following the demise of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad the erstwhile Ministry of Education and Scientific Research was bifurcated under Presidential orders into two, Ministries, viz., the Ministry of Edu- cation, and the Ministry of Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs. The Ministry of Education was entrusted with the work relating to the following subjects :
(1) Pre-Primary Education
(2) Elementary Education-All-India Council of Elementary Education
(3) Basic Education-National Institute of Basic Education Standing Committee of Basic Education
(4) Educational Survey
(5) School Buildings Project
(6) Children's Literature
(7) Literature on Basic Education
(8) Women's Education
(9) Secondary Education-All-India Council for Secondary Education
(10) Central Board of Secondary Education, Ajmer
(11) Educational and Vocational Guidance
(12) Textbook Research
(13) Public Schools
(14) Education in Union Territories
(15) Central Institute of Education
(16) Central Advisory Board of Education
(17) Religious Education
(18) Gandhian Philosophy
(19) University Education
(20) Central Universities
(21) University Grants Commission
(22) Rural Higher Education
(23) Institutions of Higher Learning (other than Universities) excluding Technical Institutions, and Institutes of Indo- logy
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(24) Unesco and Indian National Commission for Cooperation with Unesco
(25) Students' Indiscipline
(26) Indian Wheat Loan Educational Exchange Programme
(27) T.C.M. (Home Science and Public Administration)
(28) Ford Foundation (Village Apprenticeship and Genera Education Study)
(29) Recognition of Degrees
(30) Social Education
(31) Adult Education
(32) National Book Trust
(33) Delhi Public Library
(34) National Fundamental Education Centre
(35) Social Welfare-Central Social Welfare Board
(36) Audio-Visual Education,
(37) Education of the Handicapped
(38) Central Braille Press, Dehra Dun
(39) Training Centre for the Adult Blind, Dehra Dun
(40) Literature for Neo-Literates and Folk Literature
(41) Rehabilitation and its other problems
(42) Physical Education
(43) Youth Welfare Activities, Youth Festivals, Work Camps, etc.
(44) Sports and Games
(45) National Discipline Scheme
(46) Child Welfare and Juvenile Delinquency
(47) Bal Bhavan
(48) Holiday Homes
(49) Scholarships for Overseas Studies
(50) Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes Scholarships Scheme
(51) Post-Matric Scholarships Scheme
(52) Scholarships for Children of Political Sufferers
(53) Partial Financial Assistance Scheme
(54) General Cultural Scholarships Scheme
(55) Education and Welfare of Overseas Indian Students
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(56) Financial Assistance to Educational Institutions and Indian Students Associations abroad
(57) Grants to Hostels in the United Kingdom
(58) Admission in Indian Institutions, of Foreign Students recommended by our Missions
(59) Recruitment of Teachers for Foreign Countries
(60) Grant of Visas to Foreigners coming to India for educa- tional purposes
(61) United States Educational Foundation in India
(62) Propagation and Development of Hindi
(63) Sanskrit Commission's Report and its Implementation Preparation of Sanskrit Dictionaries and Works of Reference
(64) Preparation of Hindi Dictionaries, etc.
(65) Information and Statistics (Educational)
(66) National Archives of India
(67) Indian Historical Records Commission
(68) Central Secretariat Library
(69) Central Educational Library
To cope with this work the Ministry was reorganized into the following eight Divisions :
Elementary and Basic Education Division
Secondary Education Division
Higher Education and Unesco Division Hindi Division.
Social Education and Social Welfare Division
Physical Education and Recreation Division
Scholarships Division
Administrative Division
During the year the recruitment rules of various non-Ministerial non-gazetted posts of 38 different categories were framed in con- sultation with the U.P.S.C. and the Ministry of Home Affairs, and notified in the Gazette of India. Rules in regard to all the gazetted posts in the Ministry were under consideration during the year.
As a result of careful scrutiny in regard to staff proposals and purchase orders, considerable economy was effected during the year. Strict observance of economy measures in respect of various items
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under stationery, postage etc. alone resulted in savings to the extent of Rs. 1,40,000.
Plan Coordination.-The original provision for Education under the Second Five-Year Plan was Rs. 307 crores, Rs. 212 crores in the States and Rs. 95 crores in the Centre. After appraisal of the Plan in May, 1958 this has been reduced to Rs. 275 crores, Rs. 207 crores in the States and Rs. 68 crores in the Centre. Out of Rs. 68 crores, the outlay for schemes to be dealt with in the Ministry of Education is Rs. 45 crores.
For 1958-59 the ceiling for Educational Development Programmes approved by the Planning Commission is Rs. 49.68 crores, Rs. 35.73 crores for States' schemes and Rs. 13.95 crores for the Centre.
For 1959-60, the outlay for the educational schemes of the Ministry of Education is Rs. 11.74 crores. The outlay for the States' schemes for 1959-60 is not yet known. It is, however, estimated that the total Plan outlay for Education during 1959-60 will be in the neighbourhood of Rs. 42 crores.
The Plan Coordination Unit of the Ministry continued its activities of coordinating work of the Ministry with regard to Central and States Educational Development Schemes under the Second Five-Year Plan. For 1958-59 revised lists of schemes to be implemented by the State Governments have been received and examined. According to the revised procedure three-fourths of the estimated Central assistance is being released to the State Governments in the form of lump-sum "ways and means advances" in nine equal monthly instalments by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs. The final payment sanction, against which the aforesaid advances are to be adjusted, will be released in February, 1959 on the basis of anticipated expenditure Draft Educational Development Programmes of all the States and Union Territories have been discussed in the Education Working Groups meetings. Preparatory work on the formulation of schemes to be included in the Third Five-Year Plan, has also been initiated.
This Unit is concerned with the scheme of establishment and strengthening of Planning and Statistical Units in State Education Departments. The provision for the scheme has been included in the overall budget provision for State Schemes for 1959-60.