Under (b) the pamphlets will be designed to promote mutual understanding and appreciation among the peoples of different States and to counteract the rising tendencies of provincialism. Each pamphlet will deal with one or more major States and bring out its physical attractions, its social, economic and cultural achievements and its contribution to the total cultural and political pattern of the country as a whole. These pamphlets will be published by the Publication Division of the Central Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. During 1953-54, four such pamphlets are proposed to be brought out to be followed by five each in the two following years. The pamphlets will be made available to the States for distribution to their educational institutions.
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10. Scheme for Bureau of Textbook Research
In accordance with the recommendations made by the Central Advisory Board of Education on several occasions since 1943, and by the Planning Commission, it is proposed to establish a Central Bureau of Textbook Research. This Bureau will have the following functions:
(1) To make a critical survey of the current textbook. literatures;
(2) To promote sound educational criteria and guiding principles for writing textbooks;
(3) To prepare a comprehensive Scheme of score cards, rating scales and check lists for appraising textbooks; and
(4) To make a beginning with the preparation of model text- books. The research at the Bureau will concern itself with different subjects of the school stage only in the first instance.
The findings of the Bureau will be published by the Government of India and made available to the State Governments, institutions and other agencies interested in the production of textbooks.
11. Scheme for Vocational Guidance Bureau
The Secondary Education Commission has recommended that-
(a) There should be in every region in India a Centre for the training of Guidance Officers and Career Masters; that their services should be made available in an increasing measure, to all educational institutions so that guidance may be given to students at different levels of education, particularly at the Secondary stage at which decisions about employment have to be taken by a large majority of students.
(b) The Centre should take up the responsibility of opening in different regions centres of training for Guidance Officers and Career Masters to which each State may send a number of teachers or other sensible persons for training. Accord- ingly, the Government of India's scheme for the Vocational Guidance Bureau provides for the setting up of a Bureau of Educational and Vocational Guidance at the Centre and one similar bureau in each of the States willing to cooperate in the scheme. Details of the Scheme are given in the annexure II.
West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Orissa, U.P. Tripura, Kutch and Mysore have expressed their willingness to participate and set up Vocational Guidance Bureaux in their jurisdiction. Some other states are still considering the scheme.
The setting up of the Central Bureau and the State Bureaux is now under consideration.
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12. Scheme to relieve educated unemployment
With a view to relieving serious unemployment among educated persons in the country, the Ministry, in consultation with the Planning Commission, has undertaken a scheme of educational expansion. Under this scheme, it is proposed to give employment to 88,000 educated persons as teachers in rural areas and as social education workers in urban areas. The Central Government, in addition to giving non-recurring amounts to schools for the provision of essential equipment, apparatus, etc, will also share the recurring expenditure on teachers' salaries on a decreasing basis: 75 per cent in the first year, 50 per cent in the second year and 25 per cent in the third year. The expenditure on Social education will be shared fifty-fifty between the Centre and the State during the whole period of the plan. The total cost of the scheme is estimated to be about Rs. 26 crores, in which the Centre and the States will share roughly on a half-and- half basis.
The States have generally shown great interest in the scheme. Till the time of reporting, such proposals from 18 States have been received and examined. and the sanction for the Central share of expenditure involving a sum of about Rs. 26 lakhs is in the process of issue. The implementation of the scheme has formally been started from the 2nd October, 1953.
The scheme is important in several ways and it is hoped that as a result of this programme in which the Centre and the States are cooperating, Primary and Social education would receive a much-needed stimulus and a number of new schools and Social education centres would come into being. However, lest the emergency aspect of the scheme to relieve unemployment overshadows the educational effectiveness and reduces seriously the quality and standard of education in the country, the Central Government has felt it essential to draw attention of all the State Governments to some special points regarding the scheme. These include (a) essential need for a short course of teachers' training to be provided for every untrained teacher recruited under the scheme; (b) a provision of giving instruction in at least one craft in every newly opened school with the aid of inexpensive and locally available material, like clay, grass, cotton, paper, etc.; and (c) the supply to every new school of essential equipment, apparatus, visual aids and library of children's literature. It is hoped that in these schools which, under the schemes cannot be opened from the very beginning as Basic schools, the provision of these educational facilities would facilitate their eventual conversion into Basic ones as early as possible.
13. Scheme for the Expansion of Basic and Social Education
With a view to stimulating the expansion of Basic and Social education in the country, a scheme has been prepared under which the Central Government proposes to assist the State Governments in their approved schemes for the expansion and development of Basic and Social education in the light, generally, of the recommendations made by the Kher Committee and the Saxana Committee, appointed by the Central Advisory Board of Education, in 1948. The sharing
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of the over-all expenditure between the Centre and the States is proposed to be in the ratio of 30: 70 and 50 for Basic and Social education respectively, as recommended by the Committees.
The proposals under this scheme have been received from many States and are under examination. This scheme is proposed to be integrated with the State schemes for expansion of educational facilities. Its Implementation will start as soon as the principle and basis of sharing between the Centre and the States has been finally sanctioned by the Government of India.
ANNEXURE I
Scheme No. 2(a)-Research in Secondary Education by Training Colleges
Name of the Sponsoring Authority Subject of Research Remarks
State
Government of C.I.E., Delhi. 1. Building up a Social Approved.
India Schools curriculum.
2. Preparing a basic world-
list in Hindi
Assam Gauhati University To follow up study of Approved.
teachers in training
Bilaspur .. Research in Basic Education Not yet
and curricular activities Approved.
Bombay Teachers Training Educational and Vocational Approved.
College, Baroda Guidance.
University, Baroda
Tilak College of Visual Education Project Approved.
Education,Poona.
A.G. Teachers' Coll- 1. Wastage in Secondary Approved.
ege, Ahmedabad. Education.
2. The Teaching of Math-
matics.
Hyderabad Osmania University Preparation and Standard- Approved.
isation of Tests of Read-
ing, Sppelling ability and
in Arithamatic for the
primary School stage.
Madhya Teacher's Training 1. Psychological Testing of Not yet
Bharat College School population. Approved.
2. Curriculum reconstruction
of the Middle Sections in
the State Schools.
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Madhya Nagpur University A predictive battery Tests Approved.
Pradesh Differental scholastic apt-
itude.
Mysore. Teachers College Construction and Administra- Approved.
tion of interest Test and qu-
estionnaire with the object
of finding out the interests
of pupils in the secondary
Schools.
Orissa Utkal University 1. Study and Scrutiny of Approved
Radha Nath Train- Syllabus for English as a
second language in Secon-
dary schools.
2. Teaching of Science in
the Schools Scientifically
Punjab Research in teaching me- Approved
thods play centres and toy
centres education.
Pilot Project of giving
complete freedom of curri-
culum etc. to six selected
schools under strong execu-
tive
U.P. Dayalbagh Women's Evolving integrated curri- Approved
Training College culum for Home Science.
Agra.
Vindhdya Teachers Training 1. Improvement of existing Approved.
Pradesh College, Rewa methods of teaching, to
the aboriginal tribes
and Backward Classes.
2. Preparation of suitable
curricula and syllabi of
the Social education cou-
rse keeping in view the
special features, history
and culture of the State.
West Bengal David Hare Training Educational and Vocational Not yet ap-
College. Guidance. proved.
Preparation of objective
tests in History and Civics.
ANNEXURE II
Educational and Vocational Guidance Scheme The main functions of the Educational and Vocational Guidance Bureaus to be set up under the scheme may be briefly outlined as follows:
(i) To provide educational guidance.
(ii) To provide vocational guidance.
(iii) To compile and publish in cooperation with other agencies concerned, information of the following types:
(a) Occupational information, including standard descriptions of jobs, tools used, level of skill required, conditions of work, prospects of promotion and other details in regard to every trade and occupation.
(b) Information relating to the education and training necessary for employment in various jobs and the facilities available for such training, including location of training, stipends available, conditions of entry, etc.
(c) Information relating to short term and long term requirements of man-power in various trades, occupations, industries and areas.
(d) Information about part-time and vacation employment available for students and other young persons.
(e) Information regarding vocational guidance services available (Publicity pamphlets and brochures).
(f) To standardize instruments for measuring intelligence aptitudes, special abilities, interests and other personality traits.
(g) To conduct job analysis studies.
(h) To devise suitable cumulative record forms to be used in educational institutions.
(i) To conduct follow-up studies.
(j) To assist educational institutions in organising career Information Centres.
(k) To organise training courses for Career Masters.
(l) To work out plans for expanding educational and vocational guidance services.
In addition to the functions listed above, the Central Bureau of Educational Vocational Guidance will also serve as a clearing house of ideas and information to the State Bureaus and will coordinate their work and research programmes.
The following schemes will give an approximate idea of the finan- cial implications of setting up a Bureau in a State:
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Personnel
Director @ Rs. 700 per mensem in the Government of India grade Rs. 600-40-806 or in a corresponding State grade plus usual allowances.
2 Counsellors @ Rs. 350 per mensem in the Government of India grade Rs. 350-350-380-380-30-590 or in a corresponding State grade plus usual allowances.
2 General Assistants, 1 Statistical Assistant and 1 Social Worker Assistant @ Rs. 200 per mensem in the Government of India Grade Rs. 160-10-300-E.B.-15-450 or in a corresponding State grade plus usual allowances.
2 Clerk-typists @ Rs. 55 per mensem in the Government of India grade 55-3-85-E.B.-4-125-5-130 or in a corresponding State grade plus usual allowances.
3 peons @ Rs. 35 per mensem in the Government of India grade Rs. 35-1-50 or in a corresponding State grade plus usual allowances. Besides the staff indicated above the following recurring and non- recurring items are also proposed for each Bureau:
Contingencies
Rs.
Reaurring:
1. Allowances and Honoraria. 3,000
2. Purchase of books for the library 3,000
3. Laboratory Equipment (testing mat-
erial etc.) 5,000
Office equipment:
1. Stationery 1,500
2. Printing 5,000
3. Contingencies 1,000
18,000
Non-requrring :
1. Purchase of books for library 7,000
Office equipment:
Furniture 3,000
2 Typewriters 2,000
1 Duplicator 1,000
6,000
TOTAL 13,000
Thus the total expenditure envisaged in the scheme for a State Bureau would come to Rs. 67,500 of which Rs. 54,500 would be recurring and Rs. 13,000 non-recurring.
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Each Bureau should function under the general supervision and guidance of an advisory committee which will include representatives from the following departments and interests;
1. State Education Department.
2. The Regional Employment Exchange.
3. State Department of Commerce and Industry.
4. State Department of Medical and Health Services.
5. Industrial Organisations of the area.
6. Any other agencies engaged in or interested in educational and vocational guidance work.
The committee is to function only in an advisory capacity and exercise no executive functions.
It is proposed that the Central Bureau should start functioning as soon as the necessary sanction is obtained and the States should plan to start their Bureaus-unless they already exist-with effect from 1954. In order to assist the new Bureaus in the States to function successfully, the Government of India are of the opinion that their directors should be appointed as soon as possible this year after the Central Bureau has been established and they should be attached for observation and training to the Central Bureau for a few months so that they may acquire the necessary experience of organisation.
The scheme will continue during the remaining period of the First Five-Year Plan and as in the case of same other schemes, the Central Government's contribution will be on the following basis:
1953-54 1954-55 1955-56 A.-Recurring 60% 50% 40%
B.-Non-recurring .. 66% 66%