Education
How many entries exist for each party's governments and each decade. This shows where the record is thin, so a quiet period reads as a gap in coverage, not as inactivity.
No dossier is published under this sub-category yet.
Rajiv Gandhi, 31 Oct 1984 to 2 Dec 1989
INC INC government
The Rajiv Gandhi government's 1986 education policy emphasised equalising opportunity, launched Operation Blackboard and Navodaya Vidyalayas, and was modified in 1992 with a Programme of Action.
Evidence points +6.0 (range +5.0 to +7.0)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 19 Mar 1998 to 22 May 2004
BJP NDA government
The Centrally sponsored Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, begun around January 2001, aimed to bring all children aged 6 to 14 into elementary education by 2010 and later became the vehicle for the Right to Education Act.
Evidence points +12.5 (range +12.0 to +13.0)
Manmohan Singh, 22 May 2009 to 26 May 2014
INC UPA government
Act giving children aged 6-14 a legal entitlement to free and compulsory elementary education, with a 25% entry-level quota for disadvantaged children in non-minority private unaided schools.
Evidence points +12.5 (range +11.0 to +14.0)
Narendra Modi, 30 May 2019 to 9 Jun 2024
BJP NDA government
Policy approved by the Union Cabinet on 29 July 2020, replacing the 1986 policy with a 5+3+3+4 school structure, a proposed single higher-education regulator and a 50% higher-education GER target for 2035.
Evidence points +3.5 (range +3.0 to +4.0)