APPENDIX L : MEMORANDUM ON ITEM 14 : REPORT FORM THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND STATE GOVERNMENTS ABOUT THE ACTION TAKEN ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD MADE AT ITS LAST MEETING.
Item. 14: To receive the report from the Government of India and State Governments about the action taken on the recommendations of the Board made at its last meeting.
PART I
ACTION TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Item. 4 Central and Centrally sponsored schemes of the Ministry of Education.
Pre-Primary Recommendation Action taken
Education
The Board emphasised the need for A provision of
greater attention being to the pro- Rs. 3 crores has
vision of schemes in the Third Five been made for pr-
year Plan for pre-primary education e-primary educat-
and designed to promote the total de- ion and child we-
velopment of the of the child, and re- lfare schemes in
commended that the Central and the the Third Five
State Governments should allocate Year Plan design-
resources in their plants to enable ed to promote the
a comprehensive programme in this field total development
to be developed and implemented in of the child.
a coordinated manner. Every assistance
and encouragement should be given
to voluntary organisations in the promo-
tion of this programme and it is also ne-
cessary that the Center should assume a gr-
eater measure of responsibility for
the training personnel required for prog-
ramme.
Special Recommendation
Program- Considering the crucial The recommendation
me for importance of girls' education was sent to the Planning
Women's in successful implementation Commission. In confor-
of the Education programme of mity with the general
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universal and free primary approach adopted in
education, the Board strongly re- the Third Five Year
commended that the special prog- Plan for allocating
ramme for women's education should the spheres of res-
be promoted as Centrally sponsored ponsibility as bet-
scheme and accordingly funds should ween the Government
be allocated for. the, purpose. of India and the St-
This was necessary for effective ates, the special
implementation which, in the view programme for girls'
of the Board, could not be education has been
ensured only through the earma- included in the St-
king of the funds in the State ate have included
plans. It was further recommended about Rs. 11 crores
that grants for the. construction of for this purpose in
hostels for girls in the elementary their plans. It has
and secondary school Should be pro- further been decided
vided in the Centrally sponsored that special progra-
sector on a larger scale and the mme for women edu-
pattern, of assistance should be cation in the State
the same as was prescibed for sector will receive
this scheme in the Second Plan. 100% assistance from
the Centre.
Primary Recommendations Action taken
Education
The Board recommended that adequate The recommend-
measures should be taken to ensure action has been
that during the course of the Third circulated to
Plan all training institutions for the State Go-
primary teachers should become vernments.
Basic training institution an in-
tegrated syllabus covering the entire
field of primary education is introdu-
ced in all primary schools and that all
teachers and primary schools are oriented
to the Basic pattern on the lines of the
recommendation of the Allahabad Seminar.
Recommendation Action taken
Steps should, be taken by the Cent- The recommen-
ral and State Governments to arrange dation has
the supply of textbooks and writing mat- been communi-
erial free or at low cost to the primary cated to the
school. State Govern-
ments. A surv-
ey is also be-
ing undertaken
about the exi-
sting practi-
ces and
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children, and for this purpose procedures for the prepa-
the responsibility fir the ration and selection of
preparation, printing and textbooks.
publication of textbooks sho- Negotiations are in pro-
uld, if necessary, be assumed gress with the West Ger-
by the State. man Government to get
a oprinting press.
Recommendation Action taken
Promotion of
Inter-State The Board recommended On the recommenda-
Understanding that camps for teachers and tion of the State Educa-
educational officers from tion Ministers' Conference
different States of India held in November last, a
should also be included in high powered Commi-
the scheme. ttee, under the chair-
manship of Dr. Sampur-
nanand, has been set
up with the following
terms of reference.
(i) to study the role
of education and streng-
thening and promoting
the processes of emotion-
al integration in national
life and to examine the
operation of tendencies
which come in the way
of their development;
(ii) in the light of
such study, to advise on
the positive educational
programmes for youth
in general and the stu-
dents in schools and
colleges in particular, to
strengthen in them the
process of emotional
integration.
Further action to
implement the scheme
will be taken after comm-
ittee's report has been
received by the Govern-
ment.
Recommendation Action taken
Extension
Service The number of Extension A scheme has been
Centres Centres should be increased prepared for the provi-
so that each training college sion of 25 full-ledged
in the country ultimately new centres and Exten-
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becomes an Extension Centre. tion Units in 72 training
If this is not immediately colleges.
possible, at least 50 new Ex-
tension Centres should be
opened in the Third Plan.
Recommendation Action taken
Rural Higher
Education The post-graduate courses Under the scheme of
should be started only in Rural Higher Education,
selected subjects to avoid it has been decided to
duplication with universities. start post-Diploma cou-
rses in "Cooperation"
and "Community Deve-
lopment". These subjects
are not generally taught
at universities.
Recommendation Action taken
Assistance
for Publication The Board emphasized The recommendation
of University the need for sufficient funds has been brought to the
Textbooks being placed with the univer- notice of University
sities for building up adequate Grants Commission for
libraries, for teachers and such action as may be
students including textbook considered necessary.
libraries containing sufficient
number of copies of each
textbook.
Recommendation. Action taken
Schemes of
Loans for the The Board appreciates On the recommenda-
Construction the need for starting the tion of the Central Advi-
of Hostels in proposed scheme, but recom- sory Board of Education,
Big Cities mends that the available the Ministry of Educa-
money should be used to tion proposed to the
give grants instead of loans Planning Commission
and that the basis of these and the Ministry of
grants should be the same Finance that the scheme
as the U. G. C. scheme of for giving loans to volu-
grants to affiliated colleges ntary organisations for
for their hostels. The Board the construction of
further hopes that the funds hostels in big cities might
provided under the scheme be modified so as to
will be increased if more re- provide grants and not
quests are received from accre- loans, as previously con-
dited voluntary organisations templated. The Plan-
which propose to provide hos- ning Commission has
tel service on profit basis. The agreed to the proposed
board further recommends the modification in the
need for encouraging, parti- scheme. The proposal
cularly in big cities, day hos- is now being processed.
tels on the same basis as has
been done in the city of Cal-
cutta on a limited scale.
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Recommendation Action taken
Library Cess In regard to the suggestion Most of the State
for a library cess, the Board Governments are consi-
was of the view that each dering it. But they are
State Government may decide generally not in fovour of
the matter in the light or the imposing this levy.
local conditions.
Recommendations Action taken
Education of
the Handicap- Voluntary organisations run- The question of giving
ped ning institutions for the han- more liberal assistance to
dicapped should be given institutions for the handi-
assistance on a more liberal capped during the Third
scale., Plan period is under con-
sideration.
Recommendation Action taken
Concept and
Coordination Having considered the re- Generally, State
(if Social Edu- ports of the State Govern- Governments have agreed
cation ments on social education, the to the suggestion of the
Board noted that some State Board regarding concept
Governments had not put into and coordination of so-
effect the recommendations cial education.
of the 26th meeting of the
Central Advisory Board of
Education that the entire
planning and coordination of
social education work should
be the responsibility of the
State Education Departments.
In some States, the social
education organisers are still
continuing in the Develop-
ment Departments and have
not been placed under Edu-
cation Department.
This has resulted in a sort
of diarchy and has retarded
the progress of social educa-
tion programme. It has also
noticed that because of this
dual control, the District So-
cial Education Organisers are
not able to function effectively
The Board is of the opinion
that social education organi-
sers should be immediately
brought under Education
Departments of State Govern-
ments and that planning of
social education programmes
and control of the personnel
should vest in the State De-
partments of Education.
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Recommendation Action taken
Appointment of
District Social The Board was further of The recommendation
Education Or- the view that such State Go- was forwarded to the
ganisers vernments as had not yet ap- State Governments and
pointed District Social Edu- Union Territories for app-
cation Organisers for each raising Ministry of the ac-
district should take imme- tion taken. Replies are
diate steps to recruit the still awaited.
personnel. It was also desi-
rable to have the social edu-
cation and library program-
mes of the whole State un-
der separate officers of a
fairly senior status, working
directly under the Director of
Education.
Recommendation Action taken
Inadequate
Provision of
Funds The Board noted with con- It has been decided
cern the inadequate provision that the reference to the
made for social education in Planning Commission in
the Third Five Year Plan. The this matter was too late
Board was convinced that the now and was not likely
amount of money which to serve any useful pur-
would be spent on primary pose. The substance of
education as also on other this had already been
development schemes would urged before the Plan-
be largely infructuous, unless ning Commission several
adequate, provision is made times. Accordingly, the
for social education. The Government of India
Board therefore recommended will try to put in as much
that the Planning Commission money as possible on the
should reconsider the matter specific programmes, it
and provide more funds for is keen on promoting
social education in the Third
Five Year Plan, in order that
the urgent need for social
education in the country
was properly met.
Recommendation Action taken
Proper Utilisa-
tion of Funds With regard to the existing Extracts were com-
for Social limited funds, the Board stro- municated to the State
Education ngly urged that in view of the Governments and Union
increasing population of adult Territories to report on
illiterates: the action taken by
them. The replies are
(i) Greater attention should awaited.
be given to the spread of
literacy among adults and
provision of library and read-
ing room. services, as a follow-