Educational Development in the Fourth Plan (1969-74) Report of the Planning Group on Education

Abstract

This general expansion of educational facilities, however, is not uniformly spread. There are regional imbalances and in regard to the overall expansions and in elementary education (age-group 6-14) is concerned the problem is mostly concentrated in the three educationally less developed States of Bihar, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. By 1968-69, they will be accounting for 48 percent of the non-attending children