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(ii) Women Education: Women Education should be given due importance. For expanding Notes
it Committees should be formed at the Centre and in the States. Special financial help
should be provided for the purpose.
(iii) Education of Aboriginals: The Ashram System should be adopted for education for these
people. Individual schools may also be established. Educated aboriginals should be
appointed as teachers. Residential facilities and stipends should be given to the children
of aboriginals.
(iv) Backward Classes: The children of backward classes should be given maximum
educational facilities.

What should be educational system for aboriginals?

5.10 Evaluation of Kothari Commission Recommendations
After independence members of commission and Committees were formed for the development
of Education of the our country. It has given recommendation from pre-primary education to
university education. Therefore it is a comprehensive commission of Education or National
Education Commission. Even the National Policy of Education has elaborated the
recommendations of Kothari Commission. The following are -the main comments on the
commission recommendations:
(i) A Unique Report—Mr. M.C. Chagla, the Union Education Minister submitted to centre.
(ii) Bold and Pertinent—The Indian Express, July 1, 1966.
(iii) A comprehensive, Critical and Constructive Review of the Education system prevailing
in the country—The Hindustan Times, July 1, 1966.
(iv) Bold, Categorical and Realistic—The Hindustan Standard, Calcutta, July 12, 1966.
(v) Educationists and Teachers Welcome the Recommendations—The Hindu, July 1, 1966.
(vi) Science Teachers Welcome Commission's Report-Indian Nation, 11th July, 1966.
(vii) Teachers Welcome Education Commission's Report-The Patriot, July 13, 1966.
(viii) Original and Significant Contribution-Deccan Chronicle, July 17, 1966.
(ix) A great achievement in the old pursuit of clarifying the concept of a national system of
education for the country—Naik and Nurullah : A Student's History of Education, 1974.

5.11 National Policy on Education Committee of Members of Parliament

A Committee of Members of Parliament on Education was constituted by the Government of
India on April 5, 1967, with the following terms of reference:
(i) to consider the report of the Education Commission;
(ii) to prepare the draft of a statement on the National Policy on Education for the
consideration of Government of India;and
(iii) to identify the programme for immediate action.

The report of the members of Parliament was laid on the Table of the Lok Sabha
on July 25, 1967.

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