Arrange the following Education Committees chronologically. A. Yashpal…

Concept — A chronological-arrangement item is settled entirely by the year each listed body was constituted or submitted its report. The dependable method is therefore two-step: date every item independently first, then sort those dates in ascending order. How well known a committee is, or how often it is quoted, never affects where it sits in the sequence.

Application — Dating each of the five bodies named in the stem:

Sorting those dates in ascending order:

1. 1958 — the Durgabai Deshmukh National Committee on Women’s Education, appointed to advise on the education of girls and women.

2. 1962 — the Hansa Mehta Committee, which examined whether the curricula for boys and girls should be differentiated.

3. 1992 — the Janardhan Reddy Committee, the CABE committee that reviewed the National Policy on Education, 1986 and led to the revised Programme of Action.

4. 1993 — the Yashpal Committee, whose report “Learning Without Burden” addressed curricular overload in schools.

5. 2000 — the Birla–Ambani Report, prepared for the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry on private investment in education.

Result — 1958 → 1962 → 1992 → 1993 → 2000 gives the chronological sequence B, E, D, A, C.

Cross-check — Two independent checks support this. First, the set falls into three clean time-blocks: the two women’s-education bodies of the 1950s–60s, then the two early-1990s reviews that both follow the National Policy on Education, 1986, and finally the single report from 2000 — and the sequence respects exactly that block order. Second, the label “Yashpal Committee” is ambiguous, because a later committee under the same chairman reported in 2009 on the renovation and rejuvenation of higher education. The 1993 “Learning Without Burden” committee is the one meant here: reading it as the 2009 body would push that entry past the 2000 Birla–Ambani Report and produce the order B, E, D, C, A, which is not among the sequences offered.