{"license":"Free to use with attribution to Vaada Meter (license terms to be finalised)","methodVersion":"1.0","generatedAt":"2026-10-06T07:29:06.469Z","data":{"id":"inc-ls-1991-016","text":"Intensify Operation Blackboard in primary schools","quote":"Operation Blackboard will be intensified.","quoteIsExact":false,"quoteLanguage":"en","quoteEnglish":null,"page":null,"sector":"education","measurability":"directional","importance":"minor","deadline":"1996-05-16","deadlineType":"implied","status":"kept","rating":10,"ratingRule":"kept","provisional":false,"confidence":"medium","reason":"Operation Blackboard continued through the term; the 1995-96 Economic Survey reports 1.25 lakh teachers recruited under it, half of them women. A before-and-after comparison of scale was not found.","evidence":[{"date":"2004-08-25","sourceType":"manifesto","publisher":"All India Congress Committee (Wayback copy)","title":"Salient Points of Previous Manifestos (1991 and 1996 extracts)","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20040825152122/http://www.aicc.org.in:80/manifesto-1996.htm","quote":"Operation Blackboard will be intensified.","stance":"context"},{"date":null,"sourceType":"statistics","publisher":"Ministry of Finance","title":"Economic Survey 1995-96, ch. 10 Social Sectors","url":"https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/budget_archive/es1995-96/10%20Social%20sectors.pdf","quote":"Under the scheme of Operation Blackboard, 50 per cent of 1,25 thousand teachers recruited so far are","stance":"supports"}],"tags":["schools"],"sensitive":false,"memeLine":null,"review":{"state":"ai_draft","draftedBy":"research-agent","draftedAt":"2026-10-05","reviewedBy":null,"approvedBy":null},"manifestoId":"inc-ls-1991","partyId":"inc","electionId":"ls-1991"}}