APPENDIX L :
INSTITUTION OF AN ALL-INDIA
 EDUCATION SERVICE
 

At their 19th Annual Meeting held at New Delhi, in March, 1952, the Board considered a Memorandum on the establishment of an All-India Educational Service (Appendix E of the printed proceedings-Pamphlet No. 127). At that time the majority of the States, for one reason or another, were not in favour of the proposal. The Board recommended that "the Ministry of Education may in consultation with the Hon'ble Ministers for Education in the States, examine again the desirability and possibility of forming an AllIndia Educational Service." Accordingly, the matter was considered in detail in the Ministry and it was decided to discuss it informally at the Conference of Education Ministers of States which was called by the Education Minister at New Delhi on the 18th and 19th April, 1953. Nothing materialised from this informal discussion and there was no further progress. However, as certain Part C States had expressed interest in a scheme of this kind a smaller scheme was envisaged in which only Part C States and the Advisory officers of the Ministry would participate. This scheme is still under consideration.

This subject is brought before the Board again in view of the report of the State Reorganisation Commission. In Chapter IV (The Unity of India) Part IV of their report, the Commission have referred to the institution of All-India Services and have urged that the Central and State Governments have to work in very close cooperation in executing important development projects which necessitates that technical personnel should be recruited and trained on a common basis and that they should have uniform standards of efficiency and a feeling of belonging to common and important cadres". The Commission have recommended the Institution of the Indian Service of Engineers, the Indian Forest Service, and the Indian Medical and Health Services. Though no specific recommendation has been made for the institution of an All-India Educational Service, the reasons advanced by the Commission for the institution of the other All-India Services apply with equal if not even greater force for the, establishment of an Indian Educational Service. Experience of the working of the first- five Year Plan reinforces the detailed arguments

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advanced for the establishment of a Service as proposed in the Memorandum referred to in paragraph I above.

The Board is requested to re-consider the matter and give Government the benefit of their views in the light of the changed circumstances brought about by the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission.