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Development of Education System Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 4: Education in India after Independence:

Secondary Education Commission of (1952-53)

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
4.1 Background and Appointment of the Secondary Education Commission
4.2 Report of the Commission
4.3 Barriers for Impact of Secondary Education Commission
4.4 Recommendations on the Aims of Secondary Education
4.5 Re-organisation of Secondary Education
4.6 Summary
4.7 Keywords
4.8 Review Questions
4.9 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be Summarized as below:
• to discuss about the Background and Appointment of the Secondary Education Commission.
• to explain about the Report of the Commission.
• to describe about the barries for impact of Secondary Education Commission.
• to discuss about the recommendations on the aims of secondary education.
• to describe about the re-organisation of Secondary Education.

Introduction

Secondary education is the stage of education that includes all the classes after the primary
school and before university education is started. This stage is considered to be the backbone of
the country’s entire educational programme. This however, is also the stage which marks the
completion of education for the large majority of pupils. Secondary education is also the basis
of higher education which gives the desired direction to the nation’s power. An inefficient
system of secondary education therefore is bound to affect adversely the quality of education at
all later stages.
This unit deals with the Secondary Education Commission, 1952-53, covering its various aspects
from the background of its appointment to its recommendations which had a far reaching effect
on India’s Secondary Education.
4.1 Background and Appointment of the Secondary Education
Commission

Let us discuss the background of appointing the Secondary Education Commission. After
achieving the independence in 1947, both the public and the Government began to take keen
interest in the development of secondary education. Although the number of secondary schools
and its enrolment began to significantly increase even before India’s attaining independence,

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