Indian Education Repository

A discussion/perspective paper reflecting the committee’s ideas and thoughts on the problems of education after the National Policy on Education 1986 was implemented. The report endorses the inclusion of the Right to Education as a Constitutional Amendment, Early Childhood Education, equal opportunity through a Common School System (through “persuasion and legislation”) , use of mother tongue, non-formal education and socially useful productive work (SUPW) as an effective medium of learning and putting teachers and the local community at the centre. It recommends “a system of comprehensive and continuous internal assessment, both oral and written” and replacing prescribed textbooks with readings. Also, calls for a greater community involvement in school education system at the grassroots and challenges the segregated schooling approach followed through the Navodaya Vidyala Approach.