The Hunter Commission recommended the withdrawal of government support to
Collegiate education
The correct answer is Collegiate education.
The Hunter Commission (1882–83), also called the Indian Education Commission, was appointed under Lord Ripon and chaired by Sir William Hunter. Its brief was to review the progress of education since Wood's Despatch of 1854, and its most influential recommendations concerned the balance of government effort across the levels of schooling.
The Commission judged that mass primary education and the spread of secondary schooling deserved the state's direct attention and funds. To free resources for this purpose, it recommended that the Government gradually withdraw from the direct management and financial support of collegiate (higher) education, leaving that sphere increasingly to private Indian enterprise and missionary and philanthropic bodies, aided through grants-in-aid. Thus "collegiate education" is precisely the level from which withdrawal of government support was recommended.
Primary education is the reverse of the answer — the Commission urged the state to strengthen, not abandon, it, and even recommended its transfer to local bodies with greater support. Adult education and moral education were not the subject of any withdrawal recommendation by this Commission and are therefore not relevant here.
Hence the answer is Collegiate education.
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