Report of the Primary and Secondary Education Reorganization Committee (Narendra Deva Committee)

Abstract

The question of tin reorganization of the present system of education has been engaging the attention of Government and the public for a long time. Even as far back as 1928 the Indian Statutory Commission appointed an auxiliary committee under the chairmanship of Sir Philip Hartog to review the "growth of education in.British India. The Committee was concerned with education and its organization in relation to political and constitutional conditions and potentialities of progress. -The terms of reference imposed serious limitations on the Committee and much narrowed down the scope of its inquiry. The. Committee however, actually surveyed the educational policy of Government, studied the salient facts of the present system of education, examined the cognate problems and the effect of political reforms on the educational progress of the country, pointed out the defects and weaknesses of the system and made recommendations for its improvement. The Committee submitted its report to His Majesty’s Government in 1929. The report is a valuable document- and being the first in the field it has formed the basis of various proposals that have been advocated from time to time both by the Provincial Governments and the educational authorities. Not only in this Province but in other provinces as well different aspects of the question have been taken up for examination.