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The National Policy on Education 1986 (NPE) has envisaged that the implementation of the policy will be a co-operative effort between the Centre and the States with the full involvement of the community, including the teachers. The Prime Minister wrote on 30.7.86, to all Chief Ministers of States and Lt. Governors/Administrators of UTs to. Set up Cabinet and Official Level Committees to coordinate and monitor the implementation of NPE. Thereafter several exercises have been undertaken to prepare schemes, projects and obtain approvals in respect of them. Policy implementation has been discussed at the meetings of the State Education Ministers at New Delhi in February and April, 1987. The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) also reviewed the Policy implementation on June 25-26, 1987 at New Delhi. High Power Committees have been set up by almost all the State Governments and UT Admns. to monitor the NPE. Seven CABE Committees have been set up at the Centre with active representation of the States to monitor the thrust areas of the NPE. Statewise position of the work done in respect of implementation of the NPE is given as under:-

1. Andhra Pradesh

1.1 A Cabinet Sub-Committee and a High Level Committee have been constituted to oversee the implementation of the National Policy on Education 1986.

1.2 S.C.E.R.T. conducted orientation training programmes during 1986-87. The total number of teachers trained in school subjects and activity areas at Primary and Upper Primary levels is 5,900.

1.3 The curriculum of school subjects have been revised. As a part of Curriculum revision, a review of textual materials has been taken up. it is necessary to mention that the syllabus in Mathematics and Sciences for Classes I to X has been revised and modernised.

1.4 Similarly, the syllabus of three languages has been revised. According to this revision, English is being introduced from Class

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VI onwards from 1987-88 and Hindi from Class VIII onwards.

1.5 The State Government has taken steps for improvement of the environment in the Primary Schools by providing school buildings, furniture, equipment and teaching staff. Similarly it is proposed to appoint 200O Women teachers for strengthening the existing single teacher schools and also open 500 new schools to achieve the targets of enrolment of 5 lakhs children at Primary stage.

1.6 At present Vocational courses are offered in 345 Schools (15 schools in each district) in all the 23 districts of the State.

1.7 4 Navodaya Vidyalayas have been opened during the year 1986- 87. Sanction for the establishment of 8 Navodaya Vidyalayas during 1987-88 has also been accorded.

1.8 The Government established the Commissionerate of Higher Education to advise the Government in matters relating to Higher Education in the State and to oversee its development with perspective planning.

1.9 The proposals for reconstituting the State Board of Adult Education, District level and Project level Committees are under consideration of Government.

1.10 The Directorate of Higher Education under the Welfare Programmes for the benefit of SC students, has introduced book banks scheme and special coaching programme. Further, it is also proposed to construct SC hostels, to provide infrastructural facilities to the existing Govt. Junior Colleges in SC & ST areas and to open new Residential Junior Colleges for the benefit of the tribal students.

2. Arunachal Pradesh

2.1 A Cabinet Sub-Committee to oversee the implementation of the National Policy on Education has been constituted. An Official Level Committee has also been constituted.

2.2 Massive Training Programme under the scheme of National Inservice Training Programme of teachers was undertaken to train 616 teachers during 1986-87. 560 teachers of Primary and Secondary Level attended the training programme. The key persons and Resource Persons have already been trained to train the teachers at District Headquarters during the current year.

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2.3 72 Non-formal Education Centres have been opened for the children who cannot attend classes in the schools. More Lady Teachers have been appointed to attract girl students to school and to look after them.

2.4 Action has been initiated under the scheme Operation Blackboard. 762 schools which need minimum two classrooms and toilets for girls and boys have been identified.

2.5 In 1986-87, 200 teachers were appointed for the single teacher schools in Arunachal Pradesh. During the current year 74 Schools are being provided lady teachers.

2.6 Vocational courses have been introduced in 4 Higher Secondary Schools at + 2 stage.

2.7 Several vocational courses have been identified for introduction in 11 Higher Secondary Schools.

2.8 One Navodaya Vidyalaya was established at Hunli in Dibang Valley District in 1986-87. This year 4 more Navodaya Vidyalayas would be established at Seppa, Daporijo, Tezu and Tissa.

2.9 Village Education Committees are being formed in all the villages to run and manage the schools smoothly. Local Community has also been involved to share the financial burden of the State.

3. Assam

3.1 A Cabinet Sub-Committee under the Chief Minister, and a High Level Committee of Officers under the Chief Secretary have been set up to monitor and oversee the implementation of New Education Policy.

3.2 16,000 teachers at elementary and secondary school level have been oriented by the SCERT. Education survey and mapping work has been started; compilation of district reports are in progress. The State SCERT has already prepared a new curriculum from class I to Class IV on the line of the national curriculum frame-work.

3.3 It has been decided to construct 3302 school buildings out of funds made available under the 8th Finance Commission Award. 700 additional teachers have been provided in single teacher schools.

3.4 Mass Programme of Functional Literacy was launched by

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involving volunteers from colleges under the Guwahati University. Guidelines have been formulated to establish school complexes at the districts under the supervision of Inspector of schools. A Regional centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University in the State is being established.

4. Bihar

4.1 During the summer vacation of 1986, 30, 531 Primary school teachers have been imparted orientation training. SCERT has taken steps for the sample survey of the 20 per cent of blocks and municipalities for providing threshold facilities under Operation Blackboard. The curriculum from Class I to X has been designed in accordance with the Key-note of NPE and the draft curriculum proposed by the NCERT. Two Ashram Vidyalayas for the Scheduled Castes and sixteen such vidyalayas for the Scheduled Tribes have been established.

4.2 Construction work of 2,000 Primary schools under RLEGP is nearing completion. Construction of 300 Girls High School buildings has been taken up for which funds have been sanctioned. Construction of 3,799 Primary Schools are in progress for which funds have been released.

4.3 32,500 NSS and Non-NSS students belonging to all the 10 Universities of the State have been involved in the Mass Programme for Functional Literacy (MPFL).

4.4 43 institutions have been selected for vocationalisation of education at the +2 stage. The choice of the vocational courses has already been made with reference to each school taking note of training facilities and local needs. Curriculum for each course has been finalised in consultation with NCERT etc.

4.5 7 Navodaya Vidyalayas have been established in the State. An Ordinance has been promulgated for the establishment of an Open University at Nalanda. The establishment of autonomous colleges in each of six Universities of Bihar is under the active consideration of the State Government. The Inter-University Board is being upgraded to State Council of Higher Education. State Advisory Board of Education (SABE) on the pattern of CABE is in advanced stage of formation.

5. Goa

5.1 A High Level Committee has been constituted under the

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Chairmanship of the Chief Secretary. A State Level Programme of Action has been drawn up.

5.2 1198 teachers at the primary, middle and secondary stage of school education have been trained during 1986-87. Preliminary action for holding the National Educational Survey has already been taken. New buildings have been constructed .for 20 primary schools and construction of another 30 buildings is in progress.

5.3 A Report on vocationalisation of School education has been prepared. One Navodaya Vidyalaya has been established at Canacona.

5.4 Action has been initiated to establish DIET at Bicholim. A Directorate of Technical Education has been set up and the course syllabi in engineering and other technical institutions is under revision.

5.5 Government has enacted a comprehensive Education Act and the Rules are being framed. Norms of performance have been worked out. Code of Conduct for teachers and the students has been prepared.

6. Gujarat

6.1 A Cabinet Sub-Committee under the Chairmanship of Finance Minister and an Official level Committee under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary have been set up to monitor the implementation of NPE- 1986. A special scheme for attaching pre-primary sections to existing primary schools in selected areas has been approved by the Cabinet Sub-Committee. A Committee has also been set up to coordinate public contributions and also to activise voluntary agencies for the construction of class rooms.

6.2 A Scheme has been prepared to identify specific primary schools for upgradation so that these schools can operate within their own budget as independent entities.

6.3 A special Committee was appinted to report on the issues covered in the programme of action. The report has since been received.

6.4 2 Navodaya, Vidyalayas have started functioning' in the State. The Government has appointed a special Commission under the chairmanship of ex-chief justice to go into the working of Secondary Education Act. The report of the Commission is under examination and decision on the recommendations will

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be taken soon.

6.5 A Tribunal has been set up on 23.1.87 for redressal of grievance!, of private Primary school teachers. A new scheme has been launched for setting up Residential schools specially for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes students. 10 such schools have already started functioning from this year. Government has constituted a Committee consisting of 5 members for suggesting innovative ideas in the field of adult education.

6.6 984 teachers from Gujarat were deputed to participate in the workshop for Western Region so as to enable them to work as resource person for teachers training at various places. 2800 teachers from secondary schools and 23000 teachers from primary schools were imparted training during the year.

7. Haryana

7.1 A Cabinet Sub-Committee under Minister of Education and an official level Committee have been set up to monitor the implementation of NPE. 10,000 teachers have been imparted orientation training during the summer vacation of 1986. Staff has been appointed to conduct educational survey and school mapping exercises. Syllabus has been revised for classes I to V in accordance with the national curricular framework prepared by NCERT.

7.2 The programme of constrution of school buildings under NREP/RLEGP schemes has been accelerated. Action has been initiated to identify 20 percent C.D. Blocks and municipal wards for coverage under Operation Blackboard. 3 Navodaya Vidyalayas are functioning at present and a survey of the remaining districts is under way to cover all the districts as per National Policy on Education.

8. Himachal Pradesh

8.1 To implement and operationalise the National Policy on Education in Himachal Pradesh, the Cabinet Sub-Committee has been constituted with the Education Minister as its Chairman. The Second sub-committee has the Chief Secretary as its Chairman and this sub-committee is responsible for monitoring the implementation of National Policy on Education. To enrol the children who are of the school going age, teachers of all the categories were involved during the months of March & April,

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1986. They were assigned specific habitations/villages and were directed to persuade parents to enrol their children of schoolgoing age in the nearest schools.

8.2 The State Government has introduced CBSE syllabus and NCERT text books at the +2 level to enter the national main stream of Education. The state Government has decided to introduce NCERT books as soon as the new edition of these books based on the National Policy on 'Education would be available. The State Government has taken a decision that there would not be any single teacher primary School in the State. To implement the decision, the Govt. have appointed 3300 Volunteer Teachers in single-teacher Primary Schools. At present therefore, it can be said that there is no single-teacher primary school in the pradesh.

8.3 The Government has decided to provide Scholarships to the girls belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribe communities whose parents' monthly income does not exceed Rs. 6,000/- per year. The girls of these categories get Rs. 30/- per month by way of scholarship and a lump-sum grant of Rs. 100/per annum for the purchase of books and stationery etc. This scheme was previously launched for Scheduled Caste and under Special Component Scheme, from 1987-88, it has been extended to the girls of Scheduled Tribe also.

8.4 The Government has also taken a decision to provide free text books to all the children of Scheduled Tribes from Class I to X w.e.f. the academic session 1987-88. 8.5 4 Navodaya Vidyalayas have started functioning in the State since 1986-87.

9. Jammu & Kashmir

9.1 A Cabinet Sub-Committee headed by Chief Minister, and a high level Officials' Committee headed by Chief Secretary have already been set up to monitor and oversee implementation of NPE.

9.2 In June, 1986 a massive teachers training programme for about 6000 elementary and secondary level teachers was taken up with the technical and financial support of the NCERT.

9.3 The State Government on the basis of the fourth Survey data, has already prepared educational atlas, which provides information regarding habitations with and without schooling

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facilities alongwith educational maps of each Tehsil. Block-wise maps have also been prepared.

9.4 The work on 2000 elementary school buildings has been taken up for construction under NREP. 1773 additional teachers have been provided for conversion of single teachers schools into double teacher schools.

9.5 The State Department of Education has been reorganised recently so that inspection and supervision is strengthened at all levels and existing facilities are consolidated in order to derive maximum benefits from the system. it has been decided to confer autonomous status on two institutions of Music and Fine Arts, one located at Srinagar and the other in Jammu. Steps have also been taken to revise recruitment rules, remove stagnation and provide incentives to the teaching staff with a view to achieving better results in implementation of the NPE.

10. Karnataka

10.1 A high level official committee has been set up under the Chairmanship of the Chief Secretary. A State level programme of action has been prepared.

10.2 21,500 teachers were covered under the scheme of reorientation of teachers during 1986-87. The State Educational survey unit has been set up with the full complement of staff. Twenty blocks, about '10% of the total number of blocks in the State have been identified for assistance under "Operation Blackboard". A separate Directorate for Education of Minorities is being set up shortly. A project report on location, number and cost estimates for construction of class rooms in rural areas has been prepared.

10.3 The State has drawn up a systematic three-tier training programme for instructors of NFE Centres. A scheme of imparting basic skills has been introduced in 100 secondary schools this year. This is a prelude to successful introduction of Vocational Courses at the +2 Stage. 6 Navodaya Vidyalayas are now running in the State from 1986-87.

10.4 School complexes have been set up in all the districts. Efforts are being initiated to revitalise these so that they make a meaningful contribution to the qualitative improvement of secondary system of education.

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11. Kerala

11.1 A Cabinet Sub-Committee has been constituted. An official level Committee has also been constituted under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary. More than 30,000 teachers were oriented on the National Education Policy and Plan of action by means of modules prepared and supplied by the NCERT.

11.2 More than 240 schools were constructed with the cooperation of Parent Teachers Association. 4 Navodaya Vidyalayas have started functioning in 1986-87.

12. Madhya Pradesh

12.1 A Cabinet Sub-Committee under the chairmanship of Chief Minister and Officers' Level Committee under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary have been constituted to oversee the implementation on NPE. For school education, a Committee of Senior Officers has also been formed under the chairmanship of the Commissioner of Public Instruction.

12.2 Under the programme of massive orientation of teachers, about 30,000 teachers have been trained/oriented during the summer vacation of 1986. The process of revision of the curriculum prepared by SCERT in the light of national curricular frame-work has already been started.

12.3 500 Primary schools and 250 middle schools have been opened during 1986-87. 5000 posts of Assistant Teachers and 5,000 posts of Upper Division Teachers have been created in 1986-87. For checking drop-outs and for promoting retention of children, specially of weaker sections and girls, various incentive programmes have been taken up.