Draft Eighth Five Year Plan 1990-95 Anddhra Pradesh Volume II

Abstract

From Education: Education is a means that society provides for Inculcation of Knowledge and development of skills, values and attitudes through the institutions created for this purpose. It is also the principal instrument for peaceful pervasive and lasting social change.Therefore, education has to be linked up with multiple goals of development for which skilful planning is required. Responsibility is cast on the state and centre by the constitution for providing facilities for compulsory education to the age group of 6-14. Actually, the target of cent percent enrolement in the age group 6-11 was fixed for VII plan. Though there is satisfactory enrolement in the age group 6-11 and 11-13 in proportion to the targets the cumulative enrolement in proportion to the population is not cent percent. This is because of heavy rate of dropouts in these age groups, especially among girl students.