Abstract:
The vision of education for India is contained in article 45 of the constitution : "Free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age 14." Since independence a lot of efforts have been made towards the achievement of this goal. But the goal of universal is at ion of elementary education (hereafter UEE.) has not yet been achieved. UEE includes universal enrolment, universal retention and universal achievement. Although there has been significant improvement in enrolment and retention at primary level, achievement level of the children is still unsatisfactory. The PE-86 has emphasised much on the improvement of achievement level and called for paying attention to laying down minimum levels of learning that all children completing different stages of education should achieve. On the recommendations of NPE-86, a committee was set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 1991 which submitted its report entitled, "Minimum Levels of Learning" (hereafter
MLL) at primary stage. The main objectives of this committee was, clearing up MLL for primary classes and recommending procedure for comprehensive learner evaluation and assessment. MLL was confined to the curricular areas of Language, Mathematics and Environmental studies in cognitive and non cognitive areas of learning.
