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dated March 12, 1958: Compulsory education

Dr. K. L. Shrimali, Minister of State in the Union Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, on March 10 told the first meeting of the All-India Council for Elementary Education in New Delhi that it was only by pooling all the resources of the States and the Centre that the ideal of free and compulsory education as set in the Constitution could be realised. “We have come to the painful conclusion,” said Dr. Shrimali, “that the goal of free and compulsory education as set in the Constitution is not within our reach, although it may be our ultimate objective. The target has, therefore, been reduced from six to fourteen to six to eleven years to be reached by the end of the Third Five-Year Plan.”

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