Ved Prakash is the Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. A recipient of the US Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Prof. Ved Prakash has held several eminent positions including the Secretary, University Grants Commission, Adviser (Education), Planning Commission, Government of India and Professor and Head, DEME, NCERT. He is known for his contributions in the areas of higher education, examination reforms and measurement and evaluation. He had been instrumental in designing multiple types of achievement and aptitude tests employed for the identification of talent at primary and secondary stages as also for conducting nation-wide learning achievement surveys. He has authored a number of books, papers and articles covering different aspects of school and higher education.
K. Biswal is Associate Professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. His areas of specialization include economics of education, decentralized planning, school mapping and micro planning. He has authored a couple of books on labour market segmentation and women's labour market status and a number of research papers and articles covering various aspects of literacy, basic education and decentralization in education.
Contributors
A. K. Sharma, Anil Sadgopal, Anita Ghai, Arjun Dev, C. Seshadri, Dinesh Abrol, H. P. Dikshit, Hriday Kant, Jandhyala B G, L. Pulamte, M. A. Khader, M. Anandakrishnan, M. S. Yadav, Madan Mohan Jha, Madhu Prasad, Mohd. Akhtar Siddiqui, Pushpa M. Bhargava, Padma Velaskar, R. Govinda, R. P. Singh, Ram Takwale, Sharad Chandra Behar, Sudesh Mukhopadhyay Vijaya S. Varma.