J.C. Aggarwal (b. 1928), former Deputy Director of Education/Executive Director of Delhi Bureau of Textbooks, Delhi Administration, has a varied experience in the field of education. He has singly/jointly authored about 130 books on Education, Social Sciences and Current Problems. In collaboration with Shri S.P. Agrawal, he has written Documentation Encyclopaedia of UNESCO and Education (in two parts); Women’s Education in India; National Policy on Education: Agenda for India 2001; Indian Writings on Education 1979 to 1986 and Vocational Education in India. His other recent publications on Education include: Yearbook of Indian Education, 1991: World Overview; Ramamurti Report 1990 on National Policy on Education in India;, and Survey of Educational Documents in the World Since 1983, etc.
S.P. Agrawal (b. 1929) was Member Secretary, Indian Association of Social Science Institutions and Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, ICSSR. He was also the Vice-Chairman of the Asia and Pacific Information Network in Social Sciences (APINESS). In 1988 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education (Honoris Causa) by International University Foundation. Presently, he is Member, Round Table on Research in Reading, IFLA, and Member, International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation. He is also Member, Board of Studies, National Archives of India, and Member, Hindi Advisory Committee, Ministry of Coal, Government of India. He has written extensively on various aspects of education as well as of library and information science.
