| Consider the following statements with reference to Wood's Despatch: |
| 1. Institution of a regular system of scholarship to enable meritorious students to pursue the higher courses of study. |
| 2. Helping the educational institutions founded by private efforts to obtain grants from government funds. |
| 3. Provision of moral and religious education as an important component of curriculum. Which of the above were the features of Wood's Despatch? |
A) 1 and 2
B) 2 and 3
C) 1 and 3
D) 1, 2 and 3
Correct Answer: A
Solution :
[a] Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control of the English East India Company, had an important effect on spreading education in India when in 1854 he sent a despatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India. He recommended therein that:| 1. An education department was to be set up in every province. |
| 2. Universities on the model of the London university be established in big cities such as Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. |
| 3. At least one government school be opened in every district. |
| 4. Affiliated private schools should be given grant in aid. |
| 5. The Indian natives should be given training in their mother tongue also. |
| 6. Provision was made for a systematic method of education from primary level to the university level. |
| 7. The government should always support education for women. |
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