Adult Education Components In The Development Schemes of Government of India: A Compendium

Abstract

From Preface: When this Compendium was first published six years ago, it was a maiden effort to identify and to put together schemes and programmes at the national level of different Departments/Ministries, having non-formal component, which could be used by the planners in taking a wide angle view of non-formal adult education and for initiating a process of inter-ministerial collaboration. We also felt that by this initiative, it would be possible to dispel the common impression that education in the country was the exclusive concern and responsibility of the Ministry/Departments of Education. Since then, very luckily, our view-point that extension programmes under various development programmes do have the tremendous potential for non-formal adult education, has found greater acceptance, and the approach pap- er to this Seventh Five-Year Plan now clearly states “all developmental programmes, especially those affecting the rural an d urban poor will be required to include a component of adult education and literacy aimed at the needs of the beneficiaries of those development programmes”. Therefore, it was but appropriate that we update this Compendium, before the launching of the Seventh Five-Year Plan.