An Education Commission Reports

An Education Commission Reports Tapas Majumdar The education commission set up by the West Bengal government under the chairmanship of Ashok Mitra has, by implication at least, left us in doubt about what it thought of the state of education in the state THE government of West Bengal had set up an education commission in August 1991 under the distinguished chairman ship of Ashok Mitra. It was asked to look comprehensively into the state or education in West Bengal since 1977. The base year was considered an important landmark presumably because a Left Front government in its present shape had first come to power in West Bengal that year. The education commission completed its task and submitted its report just within a year (by August 1992), which must be by itself regarded as quite a commendable achievement, considering the spread and unevenness of the educational terrain that the commission had been called upon to cover.