Indian Framework on Technical, Scientific and Medical Education with Special Reference to West Bengal

Abstract

Any study of women in higher education in the core sciences, engineering, and medicine in Calcutta, West Bengal during the period 1947–1974 would be inadequate without a consideration of the Union Government's policies in these sectors. Because the Constituent Assembly adopted "a cooperative federalism," which means increasing cooperation and interdependence between the centre and the states while upholding the federalist principle, a study of the central policies that influenced state policies in higher education, particularly in science, technology, and medicine, is now required. On the one hand, because the Congress ministries were in power both at the centre and in the state of West Bengal during the study period, developmental plans in the state appeared to move more quickly with the federal government, but because education was on the concurrent list, the state bore the brunt of the responsibility for its development.