Text Book of Plant Diseases

The educational situation on the eve of independence was quite bleak. In spite of all that had been achieved under the British Rule, we began our freedom on a fairly low level of attainment in education in almost all respects. Vocational and technical education was poorly developed, both at the school and university stages, and the supply of high level trained scientific man-power was very limited. Educational inequalities were very large, especially between one region and another, between urban and rural areas, between men and women, and between the advanced and intermediate castes on the one hand and the scheduled castes and tribes on the other. The standards of education were generally unsatisfactory, especially at the school stage, with too much of emphasis on English and too little stress on Mathematics, Science or the Indian languages. So the first Commission formed was the University Education Commission (1948-49) which not only emphasized on higher education but also touched upon the issues related to school education.