Question

Which one of the following is not a salient feature of the National Policy on Education, 1986?

Answer 1

1. EDUCATION AND WOMEN'S EQUALITY :
Recommendations 1-62 deal with women's education. According to the NPERC, these recommendations are the guiding principles for the entire report. On the whole the NPE-86 has been endorsed and all-the recommendations primarily deal with logistic problems of implementation.

2. Women's Equality was written has not been appreciated by the NPERC, while the policy statement itself has been endorsed . The main arguments given by the NPERC deal primarily with the following issues :
--Need for decentralized block/sub block level planning - Almost all the recommendations call for decentralized planning to ensure effective coordination between various arms of the government Thus the call is not only to decentralize educational planning but development planning itself .

3.ANALYSIS OF RECOMMENDATION:
Access to Water, Fuel and Fodder
This section primarily deals with the need to link access of fuel, fodder and drinking water with womens access to education and urges the Department of Education to coordinate with other concerned departments to ensure this. It also highlights the problem of access in remote areas, small habitations primarily in rural areas. The main thrust of this section is to introduce block and sub block level planning to ensure uniform access. It calls for a coordinated push with the active cooperation of other block/village level workers

4 Early Childhood Care and Education :
This section brings out the critical link between facilities and participation of girls in schooling . A ECCE program with priority on the 0-3 age group has been emphasized . The need to coordinate with ICDS has been stressed.


5. Regional Disparities:
Regional disparities especially on the status of women has been highlighted with special reference to region specific / habitation specific problems of access. These recommendations also call for decentralized planning.

6. Content of Education and Gender bias:
This section is totally in tune with NPE-86 with one special mention of the need to strengthen science and maths teaching in girls schools to help girls move into non-traditional areas of study and occupation.

7. Role of the Media:
The need to gear the media to promote gender equality has been emphasized. The key recommendation here is the need to set up an inter ministerial committee to ensure the above.

8. Vocational Education, Training of Teacher:
The recommendation in this section are also in tune with NPE-86 and they have been discussed at length in the sections on Education and Right to work [186-191], Community Polytechnics [222] and Teachers and students [277-302]. The recommendations in this section are general in nature and does not have implication on policy.


9. Research and Development of Women's Studies and Extension Services:
This section is in harmony with NPE-86 with a focus on developing a live link between Women's studies centers in universities like NCERT and university centres/departments for Women's studies.

10. Representation of Women in Educational Hierarch:
These recommendations focus on the need to increase the proportion of women at all levels and provide women teachers housing .It calls for gender sensitive administration .

11. Empowerment of Women and Adult Education :

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