Action Plan of Non Formal Education For the Period 1987-88 to 1989-90 (With reference to the new N.F.C. Programme as laid down in Programme of Action)

Abstract

From Constitutional Commitment: Despite a large scale expansion of schooling facilities in the fifties and sixties, there was still a huge sector of population of school age-children uncovered by the formal system of eduction. The left-out population comprised such children, who, on account of their being activities, either never got controlled in schools or had to drop-out in the middle of the schooling. As long as these non-enrolled and dropped-out children were not exposed to schooling, it was not possible to realize the constitutional commitment of universalising elementary education as enshrined in Article 45 of the Indian Constitution.