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INDIAN INSTITUTE
OF EDUCATION,
PUNE
J. P. Naik :
Founder of the Institute
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Birth : September 5,
1907
Death : August 30, 1981
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J. P.
Naik, the founder of the Indian Institute of Education, has been placed
by UNESCO in the honour roll of 100 World Educators. A reformer,
scholar, unconventional administrator and passionate advocate of
education, he established the Institute in Bombay
in 1948 to help develop education in free India, as an instrument of
social justice and equality. Having deeply felt poverty as a rural
child, he strived for the education of the poor all his life.
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Prof. Naik maintained an extremely simple
lifestyle. He worked in several high positions in the education
sector of Government of India, on a nominal salary of one rupee per
month. He wrote innumerable well-researched articles, books and
numerous reports of commissions and committees. He was Member
Secretary of the Indian Education Commission (1964-1966) and the chief
author of its insightful report. He was Educational Adviser to
the Government of India. As the founder Member-Secretary of the Indian
Council for Social Science Research, he gave new dimensions to the work
of Indian social scientists. He helped establish NCERT and
NIEPA. He was the chief author of UNESCO’s Karachi Plan and Addis
Ababa Plan of universal primary education. Education for All and
Health for All were his main concerns as basic for India’s development . He
authored the policy defining report on ‘Health for All by the year
2000’, under the aegis of the ICSSR and Indian Council for Medical
Research.
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