Draft Eighth Five Year Plan 1990-95 and Draft Annual Plan 1991-92 (Volume I and II) Scheme-Wise Details Volume II (Sectors: 30-Education to 43-Other Administrative Services) Union Territory of Pondicherry

Abstract

The eighties witnessed a phenomenal growth of education at all levels, Massive efforts towards enrolment of Boys & Girls at the Primary level bore fruit. Along with this concerted effort and application of Social pressure to rope in more and more children of the age group of 6-14 the compulsions to expand the- educational infrastructural facilities and the social demand for more and more schools were met by opening more schools in the primary sector This was the decade that witnessed the introduction and consolidation of Higher Secondary schools which brought the higher educational facilities even to remote rural areas.