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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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