Question

Q. Consider the following statements:

Which of the following commission on education is described above?

• A. Hartog Committee.
• B. Hunter Commission.
• C. Saddler Commission.
• D. Raleigh Commission.

Answer 1

The correct option is B Hunter Commission.

Explanation:

Hunter Education Commission (1882-83)

1882, the Government appointed a commission under the chairmanship of W.W. Hunter to review the progress of development of education in the country since the Despatch of 1854. The Hunter Commission mostly confined its recommendations to primary and secondary education.

The commission:

• Emphasised that the state’s special care is required for the extension and improvement of primary education and that primary education should be imparted through vernacular.
• recommended transfer of control of primary education to newly set up district and municipal boards.
• recommended that secondary (High School) education should have two divisions—literary—leading up to university. vocational—for commercial careers.
• drew attention to inadequate facilities for female education, especially outside presidency towns and made recommendations for its spread.