Draft VIIIth Five Year Plan 1992-97 & Annual Plan 1992-93 Education Art and Culture (Including Adult Education and Archives)

Abstract

From Elementary Education: In keeping pace with the National Policy of Education the thrust on Elementary Education will emphasise two aspects viz., (i) universal enrolment and retention of children upto 14 years of age and (ii) a substantial improvement in the quality of education. This involves a child-centred and activity-based approach of teaching to be adopted at the Elementary Stage, upgradation of the standards of teaching, evaluation techniques to be modernized and eliminating the problem of drop-outs through an array of meticulously formulated strategies based on microplanning starting from gross-out level fully co-ordinated with the network of non-formal education. It is to be ensured that by 1995 all the children in the age-group of 6-14 years receive 8 years of schooling the formal and non-formal system or by a combination of both.