Problems of Extension of Primary Education in Rural Areas

Abstract

From Preface: One of the major aims of the Third Plan is “to expand and intensify the educational effort and to bring every home within its fold”. For "the achievement of this goal as far as it relates to primary education, provision has been made in the Plan for facilities for the education of all children in the age-group 6-11, adequate training of teachers, Special efforts for the education of girls and orientation of all elementary schools to the basic pattern. The importance of this goal and the magnitude of the task set for the nation led the Planning Commission to ask the P.E.O. to undertake a study of the problems of extension of primary education in the rural areas.