SCHOOL EDUCATION - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
REVIEW-OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on School edu - Elementary & Secondary
1) Early Childhood Care and Education ECCE) Units should
invariably be attached with primary schools and the
policy should state it clearly. education.
2) In the point (5.5) of the National Policy on Education
1986 new point of 'Universal level of achievement'
should be added upto be more specific.
3) The target date of achieving the alms of universaiisation of
primary education be revised as 2000.
4) The Policy should clearly state that elementary
education is its prime concern and be given top
priority.
5) A National Grants Commission for Elementary and
Secondary Education on the pattern of UGC be set up.
6) There should be uniformity at the national level in the
curriculum structure and system of elementary and
secondary education.
7) Day scholars be admitted to Navodaya Vidyalayas. They
should develop as Model School at District levels.
8) The school education system needs to be equipped with
adequate resources, of men, money and material. The
training and orientation of teachers be given priority.
9) Literacy drive should be boosted and the objectives
should be to obtain cent-per-cent literacy as in Kerala.
Name : Shri C. K. Nagar, Director
Address : State Instt. of Edun. Research
& Training, Udaipur (Rajsthan)
Date of Communication : 21/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) At the secondary and higher secondary school stage
massive effort to develop technical and vocational
education is required.
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on School edu - Elementary & Secondary
Name : Shri R.S. Trivedi, Chairman
Address : H.S.E.B., Capital Project
Building, Ahmedabad
Date of Communication : 14/04/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) School education be one continuous course or study for
14 years.
Name : Prof. A. Datta,
Address : C1/204 Janakpuri,
New Delhi
Date of Communication : 09/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) The Navodaya Vidyalaya scheme be scrapped.
2) Posts of Yoga Teachers in the Kendriya Vidyalayas be abolished.
3) The scheme of Socially Useful Productive Work be
scrapped.
Name : Shri Ramkrishan Ram Saxena,
Address Shop No.5, Guru Bagh,
Varanasi
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) After primary education (up to class five) is over
technical education should be started on the pattern of
ITIs.
Name : Shri R.K. Sharma
Address Sherkhan Gali, Ramanagar Fort,
Varansi
Date of Communication : 08/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Education up to VIII Standard should be compulsory
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on School edu - Elementary & Secondary
2) After VIII standard, students should have option to
study courses of their choice.
Name : Shri Bhagwan Prasad Tiwari,
Address : P.O. Amarwara, Distt. Chindwara
M.P.
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Primary education should not be confined to
textbooks but should be vocationalised.
Name : Shri Baldev Singh, Lecturer
Address : Rajasthan Teachers Sangh,
Sri Ganganagar (Rajashtan)
Date of Communication : 20/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Education at the secondary level should be tree.
Name : Shri Rajesh Singhvi,
Address : Students Federation of India,
452 Moksh Marg, Jaipur
Date of Communication : 19/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Senior higher secondary classes be retained only in
those schools where proper facilities are available.
Name : Prof. G C Shivahare,
Address : University of Rajasthan,
Jaipur
Date of Communication : 19/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Class attendence should be made compulsory.
2) Instead of national services scheme Military Services Scheme be
introduced at higher secondary level.
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on School edu - Elementary & Secondary
Name : Shri S N Swami,
Address : Near Naya Kuan,
Bikaner
Date of Communication : 24/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Education up to class XII be compulsory and egalitarian.
Name : Dr C Mahadevan,
Address : 41 Devi Illam, State Bank
Colony, Nagercoil
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : other Individual letter
1) In school education stress should be on applied
technical knowledge.
Name : Dr. M S Kirloskar,
Address : Dadhankeri,
Dharwad
Date of Communication : 28/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on School edu - Elementary & Secondary
1) Over crowding in classes be restrained.
Name : Shri Dwarka Prasad Patodia,
Address : Bharat Kalyan Manch, Radha Press, 99/3
Gandhi Ngr.N.Delhi
Date of Communication : 27/05/90
Category : Organisation
1) Vocational and technical training be imparted at the
secondary level.
2) The polytechnics & I.T.I.'s should adopt schools to
impart vocational courses outside the regular t timings
of the institution.
3) Vocational training courses should have status of
independent subjects at secondary levels.
Name : Shri R S Bharadwaj
Address : Bhartiya Shikhsn Mandal,
K-30 Green Park Main, N. Delhi
Date of Communication : 09/07/90
Category : Organisation
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on School edu - Elementary & Secondary
1) Majority of the rural primary schools manned by only
one teacher must be provided complete facilities.
Name : Shri Firoz Ahmed,
Address : 2170, Ahata Kaley Sahab,
Balimaran, Delhi -6
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Newspaper Articles
1) Basic amenities be provided in Government and Municipal
Schools to match Public Schools.
2) English medium be used for all the subjects in
Government schools from class IV.
Name : Shri J.P. Gureja,
Address : C-379, Sheikh Sarai, Phase-I,
Pocket-C, New Delhi-17.
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Newspaper Articles
1) Greater emphasis on Primary Education will have better
impact on human development.
Name : Times of India
Address :
Date of Communication : 24/06/90
Category : Newspaper Articles
1) More languages should be used in the Primary Schools.
Name : Sumi Krishna
Address : Times of India
Date of Communication : 14/06/90
Category : Newspaper Articles
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