Some of the major recommendations of the Kothari commission on Higher…

Concept

When a commission’s recommendations are tested as a list, each statement must be checked against the commission’s policy direction rather than accepted because it merely sounds reform-oriented.

The Kothari Commission linked higher-education quality to national recruitment of talent, planned expansion, university autonomy, curricular development, and continuous internal evaluation.

Application

Apply those policy directions to each statement:

• A is inconsistent: the report called for developing new courses in needed fields, not avoiding them.

• B is supported: it proposed all-India arrangements for selecting teachers and attracting talent on a national basis.

• C is supported when read precisely: it sought to regulate and restrict unplanned or uncontrolled expansion, not to stop justified growth.

• D is supported: it treated university autonomy and academic freedom as essential to quality.

• E is inconsistent: it favoured replacing excessive external examination with internal and continuous evaluation, not abolishing continuous evaluation.

Cross-check / contrast

Contrast the offered combinations:

• A, B, C includes A, which reverses the report’s approach to curricular development.

• B, D, E includes E, which reverses the report’s approach to continuous internal evaluation.

• B, C, D contains the three supported recommendations.

• A, D, E includes both A and E, which reverse the report’s positions.

Result

Therefore, the applicable recommendations are B, C, and D, so the answer is B, C, D only.