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Which of the following education commissions of India noted that 'it is obvious that if higher education is not radically improved, our administration and technical progress, our intellectual standards and social advance will all be most seriously handicapped'?

AKothari Commission ✓ Correct
BRadhakrishnan Commission
CHunter Commission
DUniversity Education Commission of 1948
Correct answer: (A) Kothari Commission
Explanation

The Kothari Commission observed that failing to radically improve higher education would seriously handicap administration, technical progress and social advance.

The Radhakrishnan Commission dealt with university education but is not credited with this exact remark here.

The Hunter Commission of 1882 focused on primary and secondary education, not this warning.

The University Education Commission of 1948 is the Radhakrishnan body under another name.

The Kothari Commission worked from 1964 to 1966 on the whole education system.

Its report gave India the call to spend six percent of national income on education.

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