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2. Functionaries engaged in educational administration at various
levels.
3. Education in rural areas.
As part of the annual/periodical collection of educational statistics and
other information, the following publications were brought out during the
year :-
1. Directory of Institutions for Higher Education 1975-76.
2. Education in India---1976-77-Vol. I.
3. Boards of Secondary Education in India-Results of High School
and Higher Secondary Examination-1977-78.
4. Selected Educational Statistics-1979-80.
5. Pay Scales of School Teachers in India-1979-80.
6. Selected Information on School Education-1979-80.
7-13. Educational Statistics District-wise-1976-77.
(i) Meghalaya
(ii) Sikkim
(iii) Nagaland
(iv) Goa, Daman and Diu
(v) Bihar
(vi) Mizoram
(vii) Manipur
14. Education in Universities in India-1968-69.
Planning and Monitoring The Planning and Monitoring Unit of the Ministry,continued to perform
its function of a clearing house of all plan activities in the field of education.
The Annual Plan for 1981-82 was finalised and a sum of Rs. 422.33
crores, (Rs. 107.11 crores, in the Central Sector and Rs. 315.22 crores in
the State Sector), was provided for the development of education in the
Plan for the current year. The Plan outlay for education for 1981-82
constituted 2.4 per cent of the total Plan of the country (1.2 per cent in
the Central sector and 3.6 per cent in the State's sector). The proportion
of 1981-82 Plan outlay on education to the total Sixth Plan outlay on edu-
cation worked out to be 16.73 per cent (14.58 per cent in the Central
Sector and 17.62 per cent in the State's sector).
For 1982-83, the Ministry of Education bad proposed an outlay of
Rs. 158 crores. The Planning Commission have, however, approved an
outlay of Rs. 138 crores which constitutes 18 per cent of the total Sixth
Plan outlay of the Central sector.
Special Component Plan for Sche- For the educational development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
duled Castes and Tribal Sub-Plan Tribes, the ministry have proposed to provide 12.4 per cent of the divisible
outlay for the Special Component Plan for Scheduled Castes and 6.1 per
cent of the divisible outlay for the Tribal Sub-Plan Areas for the year
1982-83. The corresponding percentages in 1981-82 Plan of the Ministry
were 11.4 and 5.5 respectively.
The following study reports were brought out by the Unit dining the
course of the current year :-
(i) Analysis of Expenditure on Education shown in Central and
State Annual Budgets-1979-80 to 1981-82.
(ii) Progress of Education of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes
1977-78.
(iii) Analysis of Sixth Five Year Plan (1980-85) and Annual Plan
(1981-82).
Publication Unit The Publication Unit brought out, during 1981, 25 titles in English in-
cluding 2 bilingual (English and Hindi) titles and the two quarterly journals
"The Education Quarterly" and the "Indian Education Abstracts". The
journal "The Education Quarterly" has now entered its 33rd year. A
Monthly Resume "Educational and Cultural Developments at the Centro
and in the States" with restricted circulation is brought out every month
both in English and in Hindi.
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The Ministry participated in the National Book Fair held at Jaipur in
January 1981 and the Regional Book Fair held at Cochin in April-May
1981 by the National Book Trust and also in the V World Book Fair held
in New Delhi from February 5 to 15, 1982. The Unit displayed the
UNESCO Travelling Exhibitions (1) "Paintings : 1900-1925" (2)
"Chinese Paintings" (3) "Women of Asia" at a number of places in the
country.
The Hindi Publication Unit brought out during the same period 25 titles
including the two quarterly journals "Shiksha Vivechan" and "Sanskriti".
Students Information Service The Students Information Service Unit collects, compiles and dissemi-
Unit nates information on higher education in India and abroad for the benefit
of the students and attends to their enquiries on various subject-fields.
During the year under report, it attended to 5608 enquiries relating to faci-
lities for higher education in India and abroad. Nearly 3970 persons visited
the Reference Library attached to the Unit to consult the calendars, hand-
books, prospectuses and other bulletins of information on various courses
offered by Indian/Foreign universities/institutions. 2953 additions were.
made to the Reference Library by way of the latest calendars prospectuses
and other relevant literature acquired from universities/institutions. Specific
requests for the procurement of educational certificates from Pakistan
and Bangladesh were taken up with our Missions in those countries. Attes-
tation work of Educational certificates for Indian students going abroad
was done for 1022 persons.
Deputations/Declarations sent Number of Delegations 100
abroad of Government Officials
and Non-officials during the Number of persons included in the delegations/
year 1980-81 deputations 175
Total expenditure incurred thereon Rupees Foreign
Exchange
9,60,598.07 Rs. 2,85,587.85
2338.12 and
$14,100
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