Jayant Pandurang Naik
{{Short description|Educator}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Jayant Pandurang Naik
| birth_date = 5 September 1907
| birth_place = Bahirewadi, Taluka- Ajara, District- Kolhapur
| death_date = 30 August 1981
| spouse = Chitra Naik
| nationality = Indian
}}
Jayant Pandurang Naik, also known as J. P. Naik (5 September 1907 – 30 August 1981) was an Indian educator.
A great humanist, freedom fighter, polymath, encyclopedic thinker and socialist educationist. Recognized by the UNESCO alongside Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi as three pioneering educationists, J.P. Naik is also known as an institution maker. Born at very small town in Kolhapur district Bahirewadi, Taluka-Ajara{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}.
He founded the Indian Institute of Education in 1948{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}.
He served as Member Secretary of the Indian Education Commission from 1964 to 1966{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}.
He also was Educational Adviser to the Government of India{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}.
Awards and contribution
- He joined Civil Disobedience Movement(1932), was arrested and interned in Bellari Jail for about a year and half, studied medicine in the jail and practiced it by nursing prisoners-patients.[1932]{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
- A secretary of the regency council and Development and Revenue Ministry Kolhapur State [1942]{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
- UNESCO consultant for the development plan for the provision of universal elementary education in Asia.[1960]{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
- Chief architect of the comprehensive report of the Indian Education Commission [1964-66]{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
- Padma Bhushan in 1974{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009) |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf |archive-date=10 May 2013 }}
- A commemorative stamp priced at Rs.5/- was issued on 5 September 2007{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
- Included in the UNESCO Roll of Honour of 100 Educational thinkers of the last 25 centuries.{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Remembering-a-legend/articleshow/3446819.cms | title=Remembering a legend | publisher=Times of India | date=5 September 2008 | access-date=20 July 2015}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/naike.PDF Biography]
- [http://www.iiepune.org/html/jpnaik.htm Indian Institute of Education]
- [http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=30929 About the release of a postage stamp with his picture]
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Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
Category:People from Kolhapur district
Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists
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