ABSTRACT
With the attainment of independence, new promises were made by the state, by means of the Indian Constitution, accompanied or followed by reports of Committees and Commissions, and eventually by some policy enunciations. The Education Commission headed by D. S. Kothari presented the first comprehensive report on education, which was followed by the National Education Policy of 1968. The Ramamurti Committee Report is rather a detailed exercise, as it seeks to cover both philosophy and programme, theory and practice or implementation. It will be useful however to look into the core issues raised by the Ramamurti Committee Report, where it has something important to say, which may sometimes be different from the two Policy documents notified in 1968 and 1986. There are many issues which emerge as important or core issues of education in India as one starts examining the two national education policies on the one hand, and various educational reports on the other hand.
