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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIV No.8

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla O
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, n the eve of the new millennium when this publication was
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); launched, we ventured forth into uncharted waters when Edu-
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. cationWorld became the first education-focused magazine in
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Dr. Kannan Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Indian history. Our avowed mission was — and remains — “to
Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the
Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore national agenda”. Since then, much water has flown down the Ganges and
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although this mission has not been accomplished mainly because of the obsti-
EDITOR nacy of successive Central and state governments to increase their combined
Dilip Thakore
expenditure for public education to 6 percent of GDP as recommended by the
MANAGING EDITOR Kothari Commission way back in 1967. But now two decades later, there is
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unprecedented public focus on education and an emerging consensus that de-
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR veloping the country’s abundant human resource is the precondition of India
Sundar Anand reclaiming its rightful place at the top table of comity of nations.
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi It is in this spirit of willingness to enter uncharted waters that in this is-
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E-mail: editorial@educationworld.in critical import discussed in our ambitious — perhaps too ambitious, you tell
Printed and published by Dilip Thakore on behalf us — cover feature.
of DT Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Of course, there’s a lot else in this Independence Day issue. Check out the
Printed at Rajhans Enterprises, 134, 4th Main, In- very interesting Ed News and People sections, as also Expert Comment essays.
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