UPPSC 2018 General Studies I Solved Paper

(d) Lord Ripon the then Governor-General of India appointed the first Indian Education Commission on 3 February 1882 under the Chairmanship of Sir William Hunter,a member of the Executive Council of Viceroy. Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control in 1854 sent a despatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India. The Government of India appointed the Saddler Commission in 1917 to study and report on the problems of the Calcutta University. The Sargent Scheme, formally known as the Report of the Sargent Commission on Post-War Education Development in India, was a 1944 memorandum prepared at the behest of the British-run Government of India that outlined the future development of literacy and education in India.