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A two-day meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) to discuss critical issues on education begins here tomorrow. CABE was revived and reconstituted on July 6, 2004 after a gap of about a decade.
The reconstituted CABE at its first meeting on August 10 and 11, 2004 had decided to set up seven committees to address a number of crucial issues relating to education such as Free and Compulsory Education Bill covering issues connected with elementary education headed by the Minister for Science and Technology and Ocean Development, Shri Kapil Sibal; girl education and common school system chaired by the Chief Minister of Assam Shri Tarun Gogoi; universalization of secondary education headed by the Education Minister of Rajasthan, Shri Ghanshyam Tiwari; autonomy of higher education institutions chaired by the Education Minister of West Bengal, Shri Kanti Biswas; integration of culture in education headed by Prof. U.R. Ananthamurthy; financing of higher and technical education chaired by Prof. B. Mungekar, Member Planning Commission and a committee on regulatory mechanism for text books and parallel text books taught in school outside the government system headed by Prof. Zoya Hassan and Prof. Gopal Guru.
All the seven committees have submitted their reports to the Chairman of CABE and the Human Resource Development Minister, Shri Arjun Singh. The deliberations will help in drawing a new roadmap in education for the whole country taking into account contemporary needs and realities.
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