MHRD - Annual Report 1990-91 Part - I

Abstract

From Introductory: The creation of the Ministry of Human Resource Development in September, 1985 is a landmark in the organisational history of the Union Government; it marks the institutionalisation of the seminal idea that the people of the country should be looked upon as the most valuable resource, that development should go beyond economic growth with its calculus of GNP, savings, investment and growth rate, and that, instead development should aim at the integrated development of the citizens, beginning with childhood and going right through life and drawing upon all factors having a bearing on the human condition, including science and technology, culture, education, arts and crafts, sports, humanities and human values. The main objective of the Ministry of Human Resource Development is to bring about coordinated and integrated approach in regard to programmes affecting human resource development. During the year 1990-91 the Ministry continued its endeavour in furthering this objective.