Draft Five Year Plan 1978 - 83. Gujarat. Sectoral Programmes 6 Social and Community Services General Education and Technical Education

Abstract

The role of Education in the State and the national economy needs no emphasis. Provision of educational facilities at all levels of life as an essential Social infrastructure is necessary to supplement the economic infrastructure created through various development plans. The educational system has recorded, over the years, a phenomenal growth. The Education Commission (1964-66) has emphasized the need for radical changes in the system of education. Accordingly, the major steps to be taken to bus end have been outlined in the National Policy of Education (1968). The Fifth Plan educational development programmes were imbibed with the main ingredients of these documents. The development programmes in the Five Year Plan 1978-83 aim at eqaulising [education opportunities and make education relevant.