Education for all has remained a distant dream for most developing nations across the globe. The will to commit adequate resources-both human and financial to this cause was conspicuous by its absence till the very last decade of the previous century. For India, as well as for much of the developing world, the Jomtien Conference of 1990, proved a turning point. True, our National Policy on Education was formulated in 1986 and the necessity to address the ...