Arrange the following Education Committees chronologically:

A. Yashpal Committee
B. Durgabai Deshmukh National Committee on Women's Education
C. Birla Ambani Report
D. Janardhan Reddy Committee
E. Hansa Mehta Committee

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct option is B

To arrange the committees chronologically, we must know the year each committee was constituted or submitted its report:

• B. Durgabai Deshmukh National Committee on Women's Education  Constituted in 1958.

• E. Hansa Mehta Committee Constituted in 1962 (for school curriculum).

• D. Janardhan Reddy Committee (CRL) Constituted in 1991 to review the National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986.

• A. Yashpal Committee Constituted in 1992 (Report on "Learning Without Burden" submitted in 1993).

• C. Birla Ambani Report Submitted in 2000 ("A Policy Framework for Reforms in Education").

The correct chronological order is: B (1958), E (1962), D (1991), A (1992), C (2000).

Information Booster:

• The Durgabai Deshmukh Committee (1958) was the first committee after independence to exclusively focus on the problems of women's education in India.

• The Hansa Mehta Committee (1962) recommended the uniformity of education for boys and girls, arguing that there should be no differentiation in the curriculum based on gender.

• The Janardhan Reddy Committee (1991) prepared the Programme of Action (POA) for the National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986, following a review.

• The Yashpal Committee (1992/93) severely criticized the burden of homework and textbooks, leading to reforms aimed at reducing curriculum load.

• The Birla Ambani Report (2000) advocated for the privatization of education and proposed that government resources should be used primarily for foundational education.