Abstract:
In today's era, education is considered to be the most powerful and dominant tool for
social, economic, and political transformation of any country. As Report of the
University Education Commission (1948-49) states that "The most important and
urgent reform needed in education is to transform it, to endeavor to relate it to the
life, needs and aspirations of the people and thereby make it the powerful instrument
of social, economic and cultural transformation necessary for the realization of the
national goals. For this purpose, education should be developed so as to increase
productivity, achieve social and national integration, accelerate the process of
modernization and cultivate social, moral and spiritual values".
The educational system varies from country to country and same is the case with the
education of our country. The educational system of India is sub-divided into four
major fragments namely pre-primary education (3-6yrs), elementary education (6-
14yrs), secondary education (14-18yrs) and higher education (above 18yrs). The
highest priority in our country was given to the expansion and promotion of the
elementary education and adult education. Whereas it is equally important to improve
secondary education so that after leaving school the child is ready to enter new world
of work with confidence, intelligence, self-reliance, motivation, enthusiasm and well
equipped with general knowledge and relevant skills required to live a healthy
economic life.
