Question

National Policy on Education was formulated in :

• A. 1986
• B. 1978
• C. 1995
• D. 2001

Answer 1

Answer:

A. 1986

• National Policy on Education was formulated in 1986 with an objective to prepare India to face the challenges of the new millennium.

• Major recommendations of the National Policy on Education 1986 are as follows:

• Focusing on primary and continuing education

• Launching Operation Blackboard Programme to universalise primary education and to improve infrastructure facilities in schools.

• Starting Navodaya Vidyalayas in every district

• Encouraging girls' education

• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad is the first education minister of independent India

• November 11, his birthday, is observed as National Education Day.

• 'India Wins Freedom' is his famous book.

• In 2009 Government of India enacted a law by which education became a fundamental right.

• Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyan introduced by Union Government, are joined together and implemented as Samagra Sikhsha Abhiyan on 2018 onwards