Draft Sixth Five Year Plan 1980-85 Annual Plan 1981-82

Abstract

From Introduction: Education is a major instrument of Social Change and transformation. It is one of the essential inputs of economic development also. If we turn to the crucial stages in the social history of the nations that have developed rapidly and firmly, it will be found that education has been rather a precursor than a follower in the progress of these nations. It has been established that if a nation lags behind in education, sustained growth is more difficult there. When it was shocked into a state of self examination through the defeats at the hand of Napoleon, Prussia in one stroke broke the clergy’s hold on education and introduced an effective state system of education.