Best Review of National Policy on Education-1986 (POA)

Best Review of National Policy on Education-1986

INTRODUCTION

Following the nationwide debate on National Policy on education, 1986, the Govt. of India announced on the 7^th May 1990, the appointment of a committee to review the National Policy.

Many eye-brows were raised, demanding compulsions which required a review of the policy even before the expiry of the stipulated period of five years. The Review Committee was appointed under the Chairmanship of Shri Ramamurti.

The final draft of the committee’s report was approved on 22^nd January, 1992 for submission to CABE. Thereafter the Human Resource Development Minister, Shri Arjun Singh presented the Revised National Policy on Education in the Parliament on May 7^th 1992.

A close scrutiny of the Revised Policy Formulations (1992) would reveal that in all, only two paragraphs are added and 34 paragraphs are modified.

No change has been made in 

Part-I     –   Introductory

Part-II   –    The Essence and Role of Education

Part-VII –    Making the System Work

Part-IX  –    The Teacher

Part-XII –  The Future

MODIFICATION

A number of modifications in the original NPE (1986) were suggested by Janardhan Reddy Committee. These were in respect of –

Part-III  –  National System of Education (Paras 3, 12).

Part-IV  –  Education for Equality (Para 4, 5(vii), 6, 12, 13, 14)

Part-V   –  Reorganization of Education at different stages (Paras 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 23, 33, 35, 36, 37, 41)

Part-VI  – Technical & Management Education (Paras 12, 19)

Part-VIII  -Reorienting the Content and Process of Education (Paras 16, 17, 20, 21, 25) .

Part-X   – The Management of Education.

Part-XI  – Resource & Review (Para 4)

CONCLUSION

Provisions made in the NPE are really useful and significant that improves the education system.

By looking at the above mentioned modifications we can see that only a few changes have been made in the revised policy keeping in mind the changes in scenario, otherwise most of the features of the policy continue to be the same.