Sixth Five Year Plan 1980-85 Andhra Pradesh Draft - Vol. II

Abstract

From General Education - School Education: National Policy on Education envisages orientation of the educational system in the Country into a powerful one for social transformation, economic growth, modernisation and national integration. This could be done by providing universal free and compulsory elementary education and general education to create the required attitude and climate and secondly by ensuring that the system produces the requisite skilled man-power for specified tasks of development. According to our Constitution children up to the age of 15 should be provided with free and compulsory education within a period of ten years after the commencement of the Constitution. This could not be fully achieved so far due to various reasons.