Maharashtra's Initiative THE recent controversy over the pre-school centres (Regulation of Admission) act, 1996, (Mah XXIX of 1997) which has ultimately resulted in suspension of the implementation of the act June 1998 - projects certain issues for deliberation: (1) relevance of present Indian education system for development of a child's personality; (2) state control on education and the reality of minority rights in education; and (3) commercialisation and resultant inequality of opportunity.