CENTRAL ADVISORY BOARD OF EDUCATION
2.1 Conferences of State Education Secretaries and Education Minis- ters were convened on 13-14 February and 25-26 April, 1987. While the Conference in February discussed details relating to universalization of elementary education, operation blackboard, non-formal education and teacher training, the April Conference discussed vocationalisation of education. A meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education was convened on 25-26 June to review the implementation of the NPE. Since a major responsibility in implementation of the NPE rests on the CABE, which is to review the progress of education from time to time and to appraise the extent and manner in which the Education Policy has been implemented by the Central and State Governments and other concerned agencies, and to advise regarding co-ordination between the Central and State Governments, as well as non-governmental agencies, nine Committees have been constituted to lay down guidelines for formulation of programmes and schemes as well as to monitor and evalu- ate the implementation of programmes envisaged in the NPE. These Committees relate to the following areas:
1. Elementary Education (including Operation Blackboard and NFE). 2. Content and Processes of Education, particularly at the school stage. 3. Housing Facilities for Women Teachers. 4. Transfer of Teachers. 5. Vocationalisation of Education. 6. Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and other educationally deprived groups. 7. Management of Education. 8. Common School System 9. Development of Languages and Language Teaching. Most of these Committees have already held their meetings. 2.2 The CABE at its meeting held on 11-12 March, 1988 at New Delhi, reviewed the progress made in implementation of NPE. It under-scored the importance of elementary education, teacher education, vocational- isation, adult literacy, modernisation of technical education, im- provement of standards of higher education and upgradation of educa- tional levels of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, educationally backward minorities and women's education. IT also noted the spectac- ular response virtually from all the States to the programme of Opera- tion Blackboard, restructuring of teacher education and the revised scheme of nonformal education.
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