Manmohan Singh releasing a commemorative postage stamp in honour of Dr. J.P. Naik, on the occasion of 'Teachers Day', in New Delhi in 2007
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].
He served as Member Secretary of the Indian Education Commission from 1964 to 1966[citation needed].
He also was Educational Adviser to the Government of India[citation needed].
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]
A secretary of the regency council and Development and Revenue Ministry Kolhapur State [1942][citation needed]
UNESCO consultant for the development plan for the provision of universal elementary education in Asia.[1960][citation needed]
Chief architect of the comprehensive report of the Indian Education Commission [1964-66][citation needed]
