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National Policy on Education was formulated in :

A1986

B1978

C1995

D2001

Answer:

A. 1986

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  • 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


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Major recommendations of the National Policy on Education 1986 are :

  1. Focusing on primary and continuing education
  2. Starting Navodaya Vidyalayas in every district
  3. Encouraging girls' education