MANAGEMENT, MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) 15.1.1 The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) consisting of Education Ministers from States, Administrators, educationists and academics continued to be the national level body, providing vital inputs for the management of education policy by reviewing trends in the education sector, analysing implementation of programmes and advising on policy prescriptions.
15.1.2 The Board functioned through ten committees, constituted with mandate for concentrating in the following areas :
- Elementary Education (including Operation Blackboard)
- Content & Process of education, particularly at the school stage.
- Transfer of teachers.
- Housing facilities for women teachers.
- Common School System.
- Vocationalisation of Education.
- Development of languages and language teaching.
-Scheduled castes/Scheduled tribes and other educationally deprived groups.
-Management of education.
-Resources for education.
15.1.3 Presented in the following table below are particulars of the meetings of the CABE and its committees and their principal recommendations:
Meetings of the Central Advisory Board of Education, its committees and their Principal Recommendations
S. No. Particulars of Dates of the Principal recommendations/
Central Advisory meetings business transacted.
Board of Education
& its bodies
1 2 3 4
Central Advisory 13 & 14 - Funding all NPE Schemes
Board of September, during Eighth Plan Period
Education 1988
- Decentralised micro planning
- Evolving meaningful monitoring system
- Emphasis on value education
- Management structures for streamlining
vocational education
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1 2 3 4
- Need for establishing State Councils of
Higher Education
- Regular and systematic performance
appraisal of teachers
- Restraint in establishment of new colleges
- Provision of special support services in the
form of child care services in every village
- Special attention to the education of
tribals to retain their rich cultural
identity and heritage
- Implementation of foster parent scheme
- Urgent need to re-establish linkage between
educational institutions &
specialised R&D organisations
- Provision of incentives for promoting research
activities in technical institutions
- Setting up of a National Research Council
to coordinate R & D in all sectors of
higher education
2 Committee on 25th October, - Discussed draft report and decided
Transfer of 1988 that comments of the State Governments
Teachers may be invite
3. Committee on 15th June,1988 - Guidelines for State Advisory Board of
Management of Education, District Boards of Education
Education and Village Education Committees finalised
4. CABE Committee on 8.7.1988 - Need to continue Central assistance for the
Elementary Education scheme of Operation Blackboard during 8th Plan
including Non- - Construction of school buildings out of NREP/RLEGP
Formal Education funds to be pursued with the concerned department
- Forming a pool of resource persons in each State
to prepare teaching and learning materials
and curriculum for NFE Programmes.
5. CABE Committee on 29.7.1988 - Setting up two adhoc groups to go into the
Vocationalisation question of formulation of appropriate vocational
courses for rural areas and for girls/women.
- Reviewed the progress of implementation of the
scheme and observed that not much action had
been taken by the States: suggested
that the matter should be taken up with
the States strongly.
6. CABE Committee on 25.8.1988 - Reviewed in detail the various schemes
Scheduled Castes/ meant for the development of educationally
Scheduled Tribes and deprived groups and made significant
other educationally suggestions. The important items discussed
deprived groups included monitoring proforma to monitor
major programmes for educational development
of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
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1 2 3 4
- Effective micro-planning for location of facilities
where SC/ST Children form a significant population
- Rationalisation of procedure for disbursement
of scholarships, preparation of primers in
tribal languages
- Establishment of nodal agencies in the States.
7. CABE Sub-Committee 21.7.1988 - The scope of the committees work to be restricted
on Housing to elementary school teachers, with special
Facilities for attention to the problem of primary school teachers
Women Teachers
- A multi-pronged approach envisaged for dealing
with the problem comprising inter-alia, the
following:-
a) For the rural areas, a cluster approach i.e.
construction of a cluster of houses for women
employees at a central place, say, Panchayat
headquarters favoured.
b) In urban areas, Working Women's Hostels,
preferable with a few apartments, to provide the
most cost effective answer.
c) Teachers to be encouraged to construct own houses.
d) Ways to be found for providing cheap houses
e) Voluntary agencies associated with CAPART to
be utilised to construct some of the clusters.
Conferences of State Education Secretaries and Directors 15.2.0 Conferences of State Education Secretaries and Directors were held too as a means of managing education. Particulars of these conferences held during the year are furnished below:
Conferences of State Education Secretaries/Directors and their important recommendations
S. No. Particulars of Date of the Important decisions
participants Conference
1 2 3 4
1. Education Secretaries/ 17 & 18 - Introduction of the system of micro-level planning.
Commissioners and June, 1988
Directors of Higher Education, - Implementation of Scheme of Operation
Secondary Education, Blackboard on a high priority basis.
Adult Education,
Elementary Education, - Ensuring Quality of teaching at Navodaya
Vidyalayas
etc. of all State Governments/ - Activising Educational Technology Cells
UT Administrations. in the States.
- Improvement of programmes for training of
teachers in computer literacy.
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- Implementation of three-language formula in all
parts of the country on a time-bound basis.
- Careful selection of colleges for grant
of autonomous status.
- Introduction of system of systematic performance
appraisal for university and college teachers.
2. -do- 12 Sept. 1988 - Recommended measures for effective monitoring
systems in respect of universalisation of
Elementary Education, Non-Formal Education and
Higher Education.
Educational Statistics 15.3.1 In order to facilitate meaningful management of education, "educational statistics" was given special attention. The standing committee on " educational statistics" met on 19.12.88 (thirteenth meeting) and reviewed the progress of work undertaken by the Statistics Unit of the Department of Education.
15.3.2 The officers of the Department of Education participated in the Data Users' Conference (1981 census) organized by the Registrar General of India in April 1988.
15.3.3 The Department of Education further deputed its officers as resource personnel for training programmes on educational statistics organized by the Government of Orissa.
15.3.4 A working Group set up by the Department finalised the modalities of the Central Plan Scheme on "Computerisation of Educational Statistics in States/UTs" - for application in the educationally backward states.
15.3.5 The following publications on educational statistics were brought out during the year under report :
1. Education in India, 1976-77, Vol. III
2. Education in India, 1979-80, Vol. II
3. Education in India, 1982-83, Vol. I
4. Education in India, 1983-84, Vol. I (under print)
5. A study on Correspondence Courses in India, 1980-81.
6-12 District-wise Educational Statistics 1981-82 Assam - Vol. V, West Bengal -Vol. VI, Punjab Vol. VII. Himachal Pradesh - Vol. VIII, Goa, Daman and Diu - Vol. IX, Bihar - Vol. X Tamil Nadu - Vol. XI.
13. Indian Students/Trainees Going Abroad 1983-84.
14. Foreign Students studying in Indian Universities, 1983-84.
15. Selected Information on School Education 1985-86.
16. Selected Information on School Education, 1986-87.
17. Selected Educational Statistics, 1986-87.
18. Non-formal Education (College level) in India.
Computerised Management Information System (CMIS) 15.4.1 Progress was also made in developing a Computerised Management Information System (CMIS).
15.4.2 In this context, the National Informatics Centre installed eight micro computers and one computer of advanced technology having large storage capacity, with 16 terminals.
15.4.3 The Status of the projects computerised under the CMIS are given below:
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S.No. Name of the Project Status
1. Foreign-Students Studying in Indian Universities 1984-85 completed
2. Indian Students Going Abroad Completed upto 1985-86
3. Analysis of Budgeted Expenditure Completed for the
year 1987-88
4. Annual Action Plan in respect of the important activities IInd Quarterly Report
of the Department and quarterly reports on its impleme- submitted (1988-89)
ntation for submission to Cabinet Secretariat and PM's Office.
5. Database in respect of "Selected Educational Statistics in Completed for the year
India" 1987-88
6. State Plan allocations and achievements during the four years
of the VII Five Year Plan Completed for the year
1988-89
7. Development of an International Book Numbering System (A
project of NERC) Regularly supplied.
8. Computerisation of Pay-bills and Payslips for the Regularly supplied
Officers/Staff of the Department.
9. Education in India 1984-85 and 1985-86
in progress
10. Simulation models for projecting Statewise gross enrolment Completed
ratios for Classes I-V and VI-VIII
15.5.0 The National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), set up by Govt. of India as an autonomous organisation continued to undertake the following activities:
- Training and Orientation of Senior educational administrators.
- Research in progress of Educational planning and administration (two research studies completed and eleven in progress).
- Extension services and consultancy services for States and other organizations.
- Seminars, workshops and conferences on matters relevant to educational planning and administration (Forty-nine training programmes/seminars/workshops con- ducted upto end of November 1988 and sixteen training programmes scheduled upto 31.3.1989).
- Provision of training and research facilities to other countries and to international organizations, UNESCO, UNDP, IIEP, Commonwealth Secretariat etc.
- Provision of technical support to Government on management of education (guidelines evolved on micro- level planning. Community participation and role of village communities-in relation to School education).
Progress Report on NPE