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dated July 3, 1959: Education development

A joint meeting of the State Education Secretaries and the working group on education, which concluded its two-day session in New Delhi on June 30, recommended that practically all children in the age group six to eleven should be brought under the free compulsory education scheme by the end of the Third Five-Year Plan. Several recommendations in regard to primary, secondary, higher and social education, administrative and financial matters and the development of Hindi were made. The meeting recommended that irrespective of the age of admission, the age of compulsion in the field of primary education should be six plus and the maximum school leaving age in this category should be eleven plus or the successful completion of prescribed standard, whichever is earlier; also, that the target should be to bring 100 per cent of the children in the age group six to eleven under free, compulsory primary education. It was, however, recognised that a few areas had certain special difficulties, particularly in the field of girls’ education and there the target perhaps might not be reached.

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