Match each commission with the recommendation associated with it.
Set I
(a) Secondary Education Commission (1952–53)
(b) Education Commission (1964–66)
(c) National Commission on Teachers I (1983–85)
(d) Justice J. S. Verma Commission on Teacher Education (report submitted in 2012)
Set II
(i) School complexes to link schools and share resources
(ii) Improving the quality of pre-service and in-service teacher education
(iii) Extension Services Departments in teacher-training colleges
(iv) Mandatory in-service training at least once every five years
Choose the correct match.
(a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (ii)
The correct match is (a)–(iii), (b)–(i), (c)–(iv), (d)–(ii). NCERT links extension departments to the Secondary Education Commission and school complexes to the Education Commission. The National Commission on Teachers I recommended in-service training at least once in five years in paragraph 8.20. The Verma Commission’s 2012 report addressed quality in both pre-service and in-service teacher education.
| LIST-I (Commission/Document) | LIST-II (Recommendation/Idea) |
| A. Mudaliar Commission | I. Comprehensive programme for teacher education through DIET |
| B. National Education Commission | II. School internship model of 6-10 weeks in a 2-year programme and 15- 20 weeks in 4-year programme |
| C. NPE (1986) | III. Multi track education at secondary level |
| D. NCFTE (2009) | IV. Teacher undoubtedly the most important person for education and national development |