Report of National Development Council Committee on Literacy

Abstract

The significance of education as an investment in socio-economic development had been recognised very early by our national leaders and they had, therefore, persistently struggled for universalization of primary education as a part of the freedom movement. After independence, Article 45 of the Indian Constitution as well as several Committees and Commissions stressed education as the foundation of national reconstruction and upgradation of the people's quality of life. The National Policy on Education (NPE) (1992) has once again highlighted the importance of literacy and elementary education as an inescapable investment for human development.