ANNUAL REPORT 1970-71 J M n .. fo r ;V. M,d Ul’»n iS/isJ V r MlhjSTRY OF EDUCATION & YOUTH SERVICES GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NEW DELHI c'fCtf hc'■*& ' ? ^ T 'j o CONTENTS C h a p t k Page I Introductory ....... i II School Education ....... 14 II] Higher Education ....... IV Technical Education ..... 57 V Scientific Surveys and Development . 6S V' Scholarships ....... 92 VI] Development of Languages ..... 97 VEI Book Promotion ....... 120 II Youth Services, Youth Welfare, Physical Education Games and Sports ..... 144 X Celebrations and Programmes of Nationarutegration 160 J.I Cultural Affairs ........... .................. 179 5 1 1 Unesco and Cultural Relations with Other Countries 203 X II Adult Education and Libraries .... 230 X!V Education in Union Territories .... 342 XV Pilot Projects, Clearing Housi Functirns and Social Science Research^, ...........................................259 Annkures A. Attached and Subordinate Offices of and Autonomous Bodies Attached to the Ministry . 270 B. Universities and Other Comparable Institutions ol Higher Education ..... 27 C. Indian Scholars Studying Abroad . in D. Foreign Scholars Studying in India . -92 E. Statement Showing Progress of Hindi V ermino- logical W ork of C S T T .......................................... F. Publications Brought out during 1970-71'. 296 C h a rt s P a a g ia g i I Administrative Chart of the Ministry . 3221',21 II Progress of Lower Primary Education . 322323 III Progress of Higher Primary Education . 32,24 24 IV Progress of Secondary Education . 32.-25 25 V Progress of University Education . 32(26 26 VI Progress of Technical Education . 32727 17 VII Progress of Expenditure on Education by Sources . :?2fr8 ’8 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY 1.01. Following the mid-term Lok Sabha elections, 1971, Shri Siddharta Shankar Ray assumed charge of the Ministry of Education & Youth Services as the Union Minister for Education and Social Welfare on March 18, 1971. Prof. V. K. R. V. Rao, erstwhile Union Minister of Education & Youth Services who had assumed charge on February 14, 1969, relinquished it on the morning of March 18, 1971. A. The B ackdrop 1.02. Scope and Responsibilities of the Ministry : Under the Constitution of India, education is essentially a State subject. Bu: the Centre is vested with certain specific responsibilities which have been mentioned in Lists I and III of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution. Article 351 of the Constitution has made the promotion and enrichment of Hindi the responsibility of the Government of India which is discharged through the Ministry of Education & Youth Services. By a Parliamentary Resolution, the Ministry of Education & Youth Services have also been made responsible for the development of all Indian languages. Matters relating to Unesco concern the Ministry of Education & Youth Services. This Ministry also share with the State Governments the responsibility for promotion of youth programmes in all its aspects. 1.03. Administration : The secretariat of the Ministry is headed by a Secretary to the Government of India, helped by an Additional Secretary. The secretariat consists of 17 divisions and 6 exclusive units (including Central Secretariat Library), 6 Edu.— 1 2 the divisions being grouped into 7 bureaux, six of which aareire headed by officers of the rank of Joint Secretary and one tbyby that of Director. There are 23 subordinate offices and onnene attached office and in addition, 46 autonomous organisations >ns that are financed and supported by the Ministry. They execuUteite directly the Ministry’s policies and programmes in the field. A \n ^n administrative chart is appended to this report. A list c of of attached and subordinate offices and autonomous organisationns ns is given at Annexure A. 1.04. The Ministry no longer holds charge of the Counccilcil of Scientific and Industrial Research (at present with the Cabineiet iet Secretariat) and the Indian Council for Cultural Relationns ns (at present attached to the Ministry of External Affairs). Thhe he other important changes in administration during the periood )d have been the following : (i) In pursuance of a directive from the Cabineiet iet Secretariat, a Career Management Unit has been seet at up in the Ministry secretariat in October, 1970 foDr )r the purpose of carrying out career managemennt it programmes. (ii) A Directorate of Adult Education has come intito to being from March 1, 1971, as a subordinate officee, e, converting the erstwhile Department of Aduhlt ilt Education of the National Council of Educationaial al Research and Training, an autonomous bodvy, y, following a recommendation of the Review Com-i- i- mittee of the n c e r t , 1968. (iii) It has been decided to set up a National Stafi!T !T College for Educational Planners and Administratonrs rs as an autonomous institution in place of the present it it Asian Institute of Educational Planning andd d Administration, New Delhi, run by the Ministry inci a conjunction with u n e sc o . 3 1.05. Fourth Five-Year Plan: In the Fourth Five-Year Plar. (1969-74), as finalised now. the allocation for education stands at Rs, 823 crore which is 5.2 per cent of the total outlay in the public sector. Though this indicates a slight step-up froir 4.8 per cent spent on education during the Annual Plans period of 1966-69, this is still lower than the percentage of 6.9 for the Third Fivc-Ycar Ph\n. The distribution oi Rs. 823 cror; between the State sector and the Central and Centrally sporsored sector is Rs. 552 crore and Rs. 271 crore respectively. 1.06. Budget: As against the budget estimate of Rs. 116.19 iakh for 1970-71 relating tc the secretariat proper, the revised estinates for 1970-71 are Rs. 119.10 lakh and the budget estimates for 1971-72 are Rs. 124.99 lakh. 1.07. As against the total budget estimates of Rs. 86.62 cror; for 1970-71 for the Ministry as a whole (excluding provisions made for the CSIR and also excluding the provisions mace for this Ministry in the Demands operated by the Ministries of Fome Affairs and Finance), the revised estimates for 1970-71 are Rs. 85,93 crore and the budget estimates for 1971-72 are Rs. 89.12 crore (provisional). B. G e n er a l R e v ie w 1.08. Internationa] Education Year 1970: The most important event of the year has been the observance of the International Education Year 1970 as part of a world-wide programme in accordance with UN General Assembly and TJNE^co General Conference resolutions. The key-note of the Indhn programme is: “Education in the Seventies: the Chalenges of the Future and How to Meet Them”. Inaugurated on July 18, 1970 by the President of India, V. V. Giri at a special function held at the capital, the national year long programme will end on July 18, 1971, synchronising with the academic year in the country and unlike the pattern in ether countries. The programme comprises a number of special seminars and experts’ meetings on various areas of 4 current interest. Thus, an All-India Seminar on Montessconori Methods of Education, a National Seminar on Adult Ediucatioon.on*. a Seminar on Primary and Work-oriented Education, a Regionnamal Seminar on Application of Modern Management Techniquueiues to Educational Systems, a, Regional Training Semimar ' or on Educational Statistics, a Seminar on Open University, a Nationnamai Seminar on the Reorientation of Technical Education Systetentem to Industrial Development in the Second Development Decaadcade, a National Seminar on Mass Media in Education and a u n e sc o Regional Seminar for Leaders of Youth Sciecnence Activities have already been held under various auspices. Tfwfwo more seminars, one on Cultural Content in Education and 1 th the other on Education in the Seventies will be held shortly. TThThe last one will mark the culmination of the series and the Inddiaiian programme of the iey where the reports of all the seminnamars will be considered and an attempt will be made to evolv&e 'e a synthesis of ideas and thinking for planning specific programnmcmes of educational development in the seventies. Besides tl the seminars, other activities included broadcasting, discussions s <s on various educational themes in AIR, observing the bbirbirth centenary of Dr. Maria Montessori, observing the '/75 75th birthday of Acharya Vinoba Bhave and Tri-centenary of JJolJohn Amos Komensky (Comenius), the great Czech humannianist. Details lire given in Chapter X. 1.09, Compulsory Primary Education: Primary educaatiation has received comparatively less support in the Fourth PPkPlan. A committee under the chairmanship of the Union Ministers i t for Education and Youth Services has been engaged in reviewingg tg the position afresh and formulating concrete proposals towards s ts the realisation of the Constitutional directive on compulsory pririmiimary education by 1985 at the latest. The committee is yet to > si sub­ mit its report. Meanwhile, pilot projects are either in the ooffoffing or already on, with regard to both the expansion and impnroirove- ment of primary education. The ncf.r t for example, waas as en­ gaged in a pilot project in 10 schools in Uttar Pradesh to j sti study the impact of the ungraded school system on reducing waastastage 5 :and agnation. A programme is already afoot to conduct pilot projcs in school education in a district in each of the States, of wich four are intensive educational district development pro­ jects. In these pilot projects priority is being given to compulsory primry education emphasising four major aspects, namely, pro- motic; girls’ education, reducing wastage and stagnation, edu- of scheduled castes/tribes, backward classes, landless laborers, etc., and part-time and continuation education. The projets, among others, will also be engaged in work-oriented eduction.