 DECENTRALISATION OF MANAGEMENT

Shri H. Thoi Thoi Singh, Education Minister, Manipur (25th October, 1990)

- Local Area Planning and decentralised school management are welcome proposal.

Shri Hari Kumar Audichya, Education Minister, Rajasthan (25th October, 1990)

- The idea of school complexes is good but an early experiment in Rajasthan in this regard was a failure. Colleges should not be included in the school complexes.

Shri S.N. Bajpai, Education Minister, Uttar Pradesh, (25th October, 1990)

- Education management should be decentralised and implementation of schemes at the primary stage should be entrusted to the schools.

Shri K. Ramamurthy, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Gujarat, Gandhi Nagar (25th October, 1990)

- The proposal for giving autonomy to schools should be re- examined.

Shri Ashok Kumar Mishra, Secretary (Education), Government of Orissa, Bhubaneswar (25th October, 1990)

- The proposal for integration of school complex with Panchayati Raj Institutions needs to be reviewed.

Shri P. Mathew Samuel, Director of Education, Government of Pondicherry, Pondicherry (25th October, 1990)

- The proposals on decentralised school management have not spelt out the funding pattern.

Dr. V.R. Nagpure, Director, SCERT, Pune (25th October, 1990

- The concept of school complex is a good one. However, universities and colleges are not going to get involved in them. Perhaps the secondary schools should monitor the elementary schools.

Shri T. Venka Reddy, Director School Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad (25th October, 1990)

- The community should be actively involved in the affairs of the schools.

Dr. (Mrs.) Rajammal P. Devadas, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Avinash Lingam Institute for Home Science & Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, (26th October, 1990)

- All educational institutions in an area, from pre-school to post- doctoral stage should be under one roof.

Prof. V.C. Kulandatswamy, Vice-Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi (26th October, 1990)

The idea of decentralisation of higher education should be welcomed. Autonomous colleges and State Councils of Higher Education should be set up.

Prof. Ram Lal G. Parik, Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad (26th October, 1990)

- Voluntary agencies should be encouraged to play an effective role in the decentralised education management. Autonomous colleges should be encouraged. The system of affiliating colleges should be discontinued.

Prof. C.S. Jha, I.I.T., New Delhi (26 Oct. 1990)

- The roles of Central and State agencies need to be identified. Decentralisation is good but it is the general belief that management at state level is inferior to that at the centre. There is a need to do something to improve the situation at the state level.

Dr. H.C. Vissvesvaraiya, Vice-Chancellor, University of Roorkee, Roorkee (26 Oct. 1990)

- Decentralisation is necessary to fight some of the evils in the existing education system. It can resolve regional disparities by tackling local problems. But at the same time it will encourage too much variation and weaker units. The best approach should, therefore, be centralised decentralisation. i.e. at policy making and decision taking levels, we should follow a centralised approach of planning while for implementation at regional/local levels the approach should be decentralised.

Dr.Jacob Aikara, Department of Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay (26 Oct. 1990)

- The idea of education complex is a welcome one but it has to be ensured that it does not lead to deterioration of school system.

Shri Shatrughan Prasad Singh, Joint Secretary, Bihar Madhyamik Shikshan Sangh, Patna (29 Oct. 1990)

- Teachers should be involved in the management of school education.

Prof. A.K. Sharma, Joint Director, NCERT (Views of NCERT) (29 Oct. 1990)

- The contradiction in the suggestion rearding management of education complexes should be sorted out. At one place it is mentioned that they should be managed by teachers and at another place that they should be under the Panchayati Raj institutions.

Dr. (Ms.) Vimla Srivastava, Reader, Baikunthi Devi College, Agra (29 Oct. 1990)

- There should be a proper balance between centralisation and decentralisation.

Dr. Shiv Shankar Mishra, Head, P.G. Department of Comm. & Management, Marathwada University, Aurangabad (29 Oct. 1990)

- The persons managing private educational institutions should be given proper training in educational management.

- Primary education should not be entrusted to the Panchayati Raj institutions. They should be under the Government.

Sh. V.N. Wanchoo, All India Science Teachers Association, Delhi (29 Oct. 1990)

- A strong administrative set up for education should be created at the state level.

Dr. John Vallamattam, Editor, Indian Currents, New Delhi (30 Oct. 1990)

- Voluntary agencies should be treated as creative agencies and not mere implementing agencies. They should be promoted.

Sh. A. Vijay Raghawan, MP, (30th October, 1990)

- The community should be involved in educational ventures. the community should provide the capital resources required for opening a school.

Sh. A. Vijay Raghawan, MP, (30th October, 1990)

- Education management should adopt a middle line between democratic and autocratic set UPS. Functional autonomy of educational institutions should be tagged with accountability.

Mr. Jyotibhai Desai, Gujarat, (5th November, 1990)

- Government should play a supportive role only in education and should not interfere in the day to day working of educational institutions. Education should be participative and voluntary organisations should be allowed to play a major role.

Shri Mani Jacob, Secretary, All. India Association for Christian Higher Education, New Delhi, (5 Nov.1990)

- The interference of government in education should be the least. However, quality control, funding etc. should be looked after by government. Voluntary agencies should be encouraged in the educational field.

Shri P.M. Tripathi, General Secretary, Association of Voluntary Agencies of Rural Development, New Delhi (5th November, 1990)

- Voluntary agencies should be encouraged in the field of education.

Shri Natwar Thakkar, Secretary, Nagaland Gandhi Ashram, Chu-chu- Yimlang, Nagaland (5th November, 1990)

- Government should play a supportive role only in education. There should not be any State monopoly over education. Voluntary agencies should be encouraged.

Shri Lalit Kumar Das, Chief Design Engineer, IDD Centre, IIT Delhi, (5th November, 1990)

- Community participation in the education system should be encouraged at the village level. This would help in making available to the educational institutions the local resources.

- Education system should be evolved from the village level.

Dr. Balwant Rao Satija, General Secretary, Bhartiya Shikshan Mandal, New Delhi.

- There should be a Commission for School Education like the UGC.

Shri Mrigank Sharma, President, Student Bar Association, National. Law School of India, University of Bangalore, Bangalore (7th, November 1990)

- Institutions of secondary and higher levels of learning should be provided sufficient autonomy with regard to curriculum, syllabi content and process, evaluation, teacher training and the like.

Shri Shankar Vedantam, Student, Visvesvarya College of Engineering, Banglalore University, Bangalore (7th November, 1990)

- Colleges and universities should be given autonomy and it would help to improve the quality of education in colleges and capabilities of students to compete.

Shri P. Sreerama Krishnan, Student Member, Syndicate, University of Calicut, Calicut (7th November, 1990)

- Education complexes is the right way to introduce decentralisation of education. it should help in removing regional disparities and improper utilisation of resources. Students should also be given participation in the management of education complexes.

Shri Bratin Sengupta, Joint Secretary, Students Federation of India, New Delhi (7th November, 1990)

- Decentralisation should be functional and not related to formulation of policy. It should mean true functional autonomy for educational. institutions.

Shri Gregory Sequeira, President, P.G. Students' Union, Managalore University, Mangala Gangotri (7th November, 1990)

- Only very good institutions should be declared as autonomous.

Ms. Sona Satsangi, Student, Dayal-bagh Educational Institute, Agra (7th November, 1990)

- While entrusting management of educational institutions to local. bodies it should be ensured that they are manned by committed people.

Shri O.P. Kohli, Member, Executive, Akhil. Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad, New Delhi, (7th November, 1990)

- A National Education Foundation Body should be set up. It should play an important role for effective implementation of recommendations on education.

Shri M.S. Prakash, P.G. Students, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, (7th November, 1990)

- Colleges should not be granted autonomy.