Abstract
DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sllim.v1i1.425 Sri Lanka Journal of Librarianship & Information Management Volume 1, No. 1 pp.7-10The full text of this article is available from the NILIS website.
Highlights
India is a union of 28 states, 6 union territories and a national capital territory having a rich composite culture spanning many centuries
Since 1976 state and centre governments are responsible for education
Under the State list, state governments are exclusively responsible for education in their respective states
Summary
India is a union of 28 states, 6 union territories and a national capital territory having a rich composite culture spanning many centuries. There are different types of schools in India and this classification can be broadly done on the basis of administering bodies, i.e., Government (State and Central), quasi-government (Army Schools), Model Schools (Jawahar Navodaya Vidayalas (JNVs)), Public and Private schools. JNVs are under Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, which is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India It has opened 506 schools in each revenue district to provide free quality education to talented children predominantly from rural areas with special focus on socially deprived and girl students. In school libraries generally where there are trained librarians in case of Public, Private and a few Government schools, books are issued to children and there are story telling hours . Student evaluation is through state and national level examinations depending upon the type of school, its level and its governing body
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