Development, the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) to prepare materials for the education of our children from their earliest days in schooling till the highest classes. It is also why the Commission has pursued contacts with the University Grants Commission to devise appropriate courses for the Uniwrsity level and why, in addition, it has endowed a Chair for Rs.30 lakhs in the National Law School of India University in Bangalore for an Institute for Human Rights Education. In this entire effort, the Commission is convinced that it can benefit greatly from the advice and experience of leading non-governmental organisations and academics, many of whom have given considerable thought to such matters and many of whom have put into practice their ideas on human rights education. Nor does human rights education cease with academic institutions. All elements of civil society need to be brought into the fold: the bench and the bar, administrators and defence personnel, doctors and scholars, politicians and trade unionists, public and private sector employees and members of the fourth estate, to mention but a few. These then, have been some of the major activities of the Commission over the past five years and a few of its key concerns as it looks to the future. Tt-le succeeding chapters of this report wilf.expandon these themes and elaborate on yet others. 2.26