II. ADVISORY BODIES FUNCTIONING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

        
        
                                          
Sl. Name of the Body Year of Estab- No. of meetings No. lishment held during 1963-64
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1 Central Advisory Board of Education 1935 One 2 Standing Committee of the C.A.B.E. on Primary Education* 1962 Five 3 Standing Committee of the C.A.B.E. on Secondary Education* 1962 Five 4 Standing Committee of the C.A.B.E. on University Education* 1962 One 5 Standing Committee of the C.A.B.E. on Social Education* 1962 Two (And one in March, 63) 6 Steering Committee of the Four Standing Committees of the C.A.B.E.* 1962 Two 7 Education Ministers' Conference 1949 One 8 All India Council for Elementary Education* 1957 Nil 9 All India Council for Secondary Education* 1955 One 10 Children's Literature Committee* 1958 One (Reconstituted in 1962) 11 National Council for Women's Education 1959 One (Being recon- stituted this year) 12 National Board of Basic Education 1962 Nil 13 National Council for Rural Higher Education 1956 One 14 Popular Literature Committee 1953 Two (Originally (And one in known as the January, 1963) Folk Literature Committee) 15 Advisory Board of Social Welfare* 1950 Nil (Reconstituted in 1954) 16 National Advisory Council for the Education of the Handicapped 1955 Nil 17 Hindi Shiksha Samiti 1951 Nil 18 Standing Commission on Scientific and Technical Terminology 1960 Seven (Set up in place of the Board of Sci- entific Terminology that functioned since 1950) 19 Central Sanskrit Board 1959 Two 20 Central Advisory Board of Physical Education and Recreation* 1950 One (Last reconstituted in 1961) 21 All India Council of Sports 1954 Two

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22 Central Committee on Youth Hostels* 1962 Three 23 Standing Committee on, Moral and Religious Instruction* 1961 Two 24. Labour and Social Service Scheme Committee* 1954 Nil (Reconstituted in 1960) 25 Indian National Commission for Cooperation with Unesco 1949 (One likely to be held in March,1964.) 26 Central Advisory Board of Archaeology 1944 One 27 Central Advisory Board of Museums 1956 One 28 Art Purchase Committee of National Gallery of Modern Art 1958 Three 29 Indology Committee* 1953 One 30 Informal Advisory Committee to Advise Dr. Tara Chand ,M.P. 1962 One in the Preparation of the History of Freedom Movement in India 31 Indology Bibliography Committee of the National Library, Calcutta* 1961 Nil 32 Council of the National Library, Calcutta 1963 One (Reconstituted every 3 years) 33 Committee for the Selection of Rare Manuscripts to be Microfilmed* 1963 Nil 34 Art Purchase Committee for the Acquisition of 1963 One up to Art Objects for the National Museum, New Delhi, the Indian Museum, (Constitued each December, Calcutta and the financial year 1963 Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad 35 Committee for Framing the Syllabus of Training course for Librarianship 1961 Nil at the National Library, Calcutta* 36 Advisory Committee for the Development of 1963 Nil Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda (Bihar) 37 Selection Committee for Selection of Personnel for inclusion in Cultural 1958 Delegations, Troupes Going Abroad and for Drawing up a Panel of Artistes etc. for inclusion in Delegations Going Abroad* 38 Art Purchase Committee for Purchase of Ancient Medieval Sculpture/ 1961 Paintings for a Permanent Trave- lling Exhibition* 39 Art Purchase Committee for Purchase of Contemporary paintings for a 1961 for a Permanent Travelling Exhibition* 40 Book Selection Committee 1959 Two
*Since wound up. +Proposed to be wound up shortly.