Globalisation and International Cooperation
Poverty and Employment Generation
Multicultural and National Integration

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Discussion on aspect of Human Resource Development highlighted the need for focussing on            human development as a whole with particular attention to health and educational needs of the children.

The programme of human development should cover aspects of health and educational needs.

There was an emphasize on provision of universal education upto a certain age, to begin with,   the age of 14 years as suggested in the constitution, so that the girls and the boys of the society might begin their adult life with equal and appropriate level of education and, thereafter work for further development in life with equal ability.

Need for educational infrastructure, offering a wide spectrum of alternatives so that  individuals through exercise of their choice might develop themselves continuously was stressed.

Need for development of sanitation, environment, water supply etc. as part of human development programme was stressed.

Need for egalitarian common schooling preferably through neighbourhood school system with due regard to diverse needs of different parts of the country, was stressed.

Local authorities like Panchayat and other local area committees should administer educational programmes in respective localities and be responsible for ensuring universal education.  There was also a stress on compulsory education at the primary and elementary stage.

It was stressed that education at primary and secondary stage  should help develop children into citizen with understanding of the world around them, the rights of their own as well as the society around them, their duties towards others in the society and of moral and social  values.

As regards the structure of values, suggestions to work that out through extensive debates and discussions in the society were made.

It was suggested that since tertiary level education primarily increased  private returns far in excess of social returns,  the cost of such education should be recovered from the beneficiaries except when education is of a kind  obligated for other reasons while there might not be sufficient market signals.

Regional studies having brought out that drop out at the primary and elementary stage occurred largely  due to inadequacies in the educational infrastructure,  the need for improving the educational infrastructure like buildings, play grounds, toilets, equipment etc. was stressed.

Need for putting supervisory duties of the school on local level committees was stressed.