Report of the Empirical Evaluation of Academic Aspect of Non-Formal Education Programme in Jammu & Kashmir

Abstract

From Introduction: Non-formal Education as complementary Scheme to Formal system of Education, started in Jammu and Kashmir in the year 1974-75 following the need for universitisating Elementary Education and as a result of rethinking on the Jammu and Kashmir Constitutional directive of making the whole population literate within a specified period of time. This pioneering work of the state Was fed by the Central Government by introducing Centrally sponsored scheme of Non-formal Education on experimental Project basis in Nine Educationally backward States in 1978-79 (Jammu and Kashmir being declared as one amongst these nine) on sharing basis which actually came into operation in the year 1981-82.