National Policy on Education - Review Committees
The implementation of the National Policy on Education 1986 was evaluated by two committees namely the Ramamurti Committee (1990) and the Janardhana Reddy Committee (1992). As a result of the recommendations of these two committees, slight modifications were made in the NPE in 1992.
Ramamurti Review Committee (1990)
Despite efforts at social and economic development, a majority of our people continue to remain deprived of education, which is one of the basic needs for human development. Government accords the highest priority to education – both as human right and as the means for bringing about a transformation towards a more humane and enlightened society. The National Policy on Education, 1986 would enable the country to move towards this perspective of education. The government therefore, decided to set up the NPE Review Committee. That Committee for Review is popularly known as Ramamurti Review Committee after the name Acharya Ramamurti, the chairman of the committee. The committee was appointed on May 7, 1990 and the report was tabled in the Parliament on January 9, 1991.
The approach of the committee in reviewing the NPE,1986 and its implementation has been guided by the following concerns:
· Equity and social justice
. Decentralization of educational management at all levels
. Establishment of a participative educational order
. Inculnation of values indispensable for creation of an enlightened and humane society
. Empowerment of work
The following are the major recommendations:
1. Development of a common school system: a very vital component for securing equity and social justice in education is the functioning of a common school system. In order to achieve this objective, the existing Government schools and schools aided by local bodies have to be transformed through quality improvement, into genuine neighborhood schools.
2. Removing disparities in education: the rural areas in general and the tribal areas in particular, have suffered in terms of resources, personnel and infrastructure facilities. Therefore the need of the hour is planning for, and implementation of, educational development programmes in terms of disintegrated targets, area, community and gender specific activities.
3. Promotion of women education: inorder to promote participation of the girls and women in education at all levels, there is need for an integrated approach in designing and implementing the schemes that would address all the factors that inhibit their education.
4. Value education: Value education is to be conceived as a continuous process. Value education should ensure that education does not alienate the students from the family, community and life.
5. Early childhood care and education (ECCE): the scope of the constitutional Directive (Article 45) should be enlarged to include ECCE.
6. Right to education: Right to Education should be examined for inclusion among the fundamental rights.
7. Operation Black board: the state governments should develop all decision making power concerning operation black board for planning and implementing the scheme.
8. Navodaya Vidyalayas: the committee recommends that the Government may take an appropriate decision from out of the following three alternatives:
. No further Navodaya Vidyalaya need be opened. The existing 261 Navodaya Vidyalayas may be restructured and continued with provision of adequate resources.
. All the existing 261 Navodaya Vidyalayas may be transferred to the state sector for the states to run them as residential centres on the Andhra Pradesh model.
. The Navodaya Vidyalaya scheme may be transformed into a Navodaya Vidyalaya programme of broad based talent nurturing and pace setting ( A day school each under the Common School system can function in the premises of Navodaya Vidyalayas).
9. Work experiences/ SUPW: work experience or socially useful Productive Work should be integrally linked with various subjects both at the level of content and pedagogy.
10. Resources for education: the first step should be to provide for at least 6% of the GNP for education. All technical and professional education should be made self financing.
The implementation of the National Policy on Education 1986 was evaluated by two committees namely the Ramamurti Committee (1990) and the Janardhana Reddy Committee (1992). As a result of the recommendations of these two committees, slight modifications were made in the NPE in 1992.
Ramamurti Review Committee (1990)
Despite efforts at social and economic development, a majority of our people continue to remain deprived of education, which is one of the basic needs for human development. Government accords the highest priority to education – both as human right and as the means for bringing about a transformation towards a more humane and enlightened society. The National Policy on Education, 1986 would enable the country to move towards this perspective of education. The government therefore, decided to set up the NPE Review Committee. That Committee for Review is popularly known as Ramamurti Review Committee after the name Acharya Ramamurti, the chairman of the committee. The committee was appointed on May 7, 1990 and the report was tabled in the Parliament on January 9, 1991.
The approach of the committee in reviewing the NPE,1986 and its implementation has been guided by the following concerns:
· Equity and social justice
. Decentralization of educational management at all levels
. Establishment of a participative educational order
. Inculnation of values indispensable for creation of an enlightened and humane society
. Empowerment of work
The following are the major recommendations:
1. Development of a common school system: a very vital component for securing equity and social justice in education is the functioning of a common school system. In order to achieve this objective, the existing Government schools and schools aided by local bodies have to be transformed through quality improvement, into genuine neighborhood schools.
2. Removing disparities in education: the rural areas in general and the tribal areas in particular, have suffered in terms of resources, personnel and infrastructure facilities. Therefore the need of the hour is planning for, and implementation of, educational development programmes in terms of disintegrated targets, area, community and gender specific activities.
3. Promotion of women education: inorder to promote participation of the girls and women in education at all levels, there is need for an integrated approach in designing and implementing the schemes that would address all the factors that inhibit their education.
4. Value education: Value education is to be conceived as a continuous process. Value education should ensure that education does not alienate the students from the family, community and life.
5. Early childhood care and education (ECCE): the scope of the constitutional Directive (Article 45) should be enlarged to include ECCE.
6. Right to education: Right to Education should be examined for inclusion among the fundamental rights.
7. Operation Black board: the state governments should develop all decision making power concerning operation black board for planning and implementing the scheme.
8. Navodaya Vidyalayas: the committee recommends that the Government may take an appropriate decision from out of the following three alternatives:
. No further Navodaya Vidyalaya need be opened. The existing 261 Navodaya Vidyalayas may be restructured and continued with provision of adequate resources.
. All the existing 261 Navodaya Vidyalayas may be transferred to the state sector for the states to run them as residential centres on the Andhra Pradesh model.
. The Navodaya Vidyalaya scheme may be transformed into a Navodaya Vidyalaya programme of broad based talent nurturing and pace setting ( A day school each under the Common School system can function in the premises of Navodaya Vidyalayas).
9. Work experiences/ SUPW: work experience or socially useful Productive Work should be integrally linked with various subjects both at the level of content and pedagogy.
10. Resources for education: the first step should be to provide for at least 6% of the GNP for education. All technical and professional education should be made self financing.
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