Report No. 165

Chapter V

National Policies and Progress Made in Realising The Objective

5.1. Educational plans in the initial years after independence were formulated in the context of new enthusiasm and high expectations. Jawahar Lal Nehru in the Conference of State Education Ministers argued that "the entire base of education must be revolutionised". In 1948, an All India Education Conference was convened by the then Union Minister of Education which endorsed the recommendations of earlier committees on free and compulsory education. The national leaders visualised the extension of democracy from political to economic spheres.