EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The policy covers elementary education to higher education in both rural and urban India. The first NPE was promulgated by the Government of India by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1968, the second by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986, and the third by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2022 .

Detailed explanation-2: -In the National Education Policy 1972-1980, provision of free education up to class IX and X from October 1974 was recommended. The more radical change was the nationalisation of privately managed educational institutions.

Detailed explanation-3: -From October 1, 1972, education in I-IIIV will be free in all school, Government and privately managed across the country. According to the policy primary education would be universal for boys from 1979 and for from girls 1984. Textbook and writing material would be free for primer school children .

Detailed explanation-4: -National Education Policy, 1968 The government of the day agreed that there should be a national and coordinated policy towards education. The government then set up a 17 member Education Commission under UGC chairperson DS Kothari Kothari Commission.