Ministry of Education (India) explained

Type:Ministry
Ministry of Education
Seal:Government of India logo.svg
Jurisdiction:Government of India
Headquarters:Shastri Bhawan,
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road,
New Delhi
Region Code:IN
Minister1 Name:Dharmendra Pradhan
Minister1 Pfo:Cabinet Minister
Deputyminister1 Name:Sukanta Majumdar
Deputyminister1 Pfo:Minister of State
Deputyminister2 Name:Jayant Chaudhary
Deputyminister2 Pfo:Minister of State
Child1 Agency:Department of School Education and Literacy
Child2 Agency:Department of Higher Educationt
Child3 Agency:Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for ISBN
Chief1 Name:K Sanjay Murthy, IAS

The Ministry of Education (MoE) is a ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on Education.[1] The ministry is further divided into two departments: the Department of School Education and Literacy, which deals with primary, secondary and higher secondary education, adult education and literacy, and the Department of Higher Education, which deals with university level education, technical education, scholarships, etc.

The current education minister is Dharmendra Pradhan, a member of the Council of Ministers.[2] India had a Ministry of Education since 1947. In 1985, the Rajiv Gandhi government changed its name to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), and with the newly drafted "National Education Policy 2020" by the Narendra Modi government, the Ministry of Human Resource Development was renamed back to the Ministry of Education.[3]

Policy

See also: National Policy on Education. The new National Education Policy 2020 was passed on 29 July 2020 by the Union Council of Ministers. The NEP 2020 replaced the existing National Policy on Education 1986.[4] Under the NEP 2020, the name of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) was changed to Ministry of Education (MoE). Numerous new educational institutes, bodies and concepts were legislated under NEP 2020.[5]

Department of School Education and Literacy

The Department of School Education and Literacy is responsible for the development of school education and literacy in the country.

Department of Higher Education

See main article: Department of Higher Education (India). The Department of Higher Education is in charge of secondary and post-secondary education. The department is empowered to grant deemed university status to educational institutions on the advice of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India, under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956.[6] [7] [8] The Department of Higher Education takes care of one of the largest higher education systems of the world, just after the United States and China. The department is engaged in bringing world-class opportunities for higher education and research to the country so that Indian students are not found lacking when facing an international platform. For this, the government has launched joint ventures and signed MoUs to help the Indian students benefit from world opinion. The technical education system in the country can be broadly classified into three categories – Central Government-funded institutions, State Government/State-funded institutions and Self-financed institutions. The 122 Centrally funded institution of technical and science education are as under: List of centrally funded technical institutions: IIITs (25), IITs (23), IIMs (20), IISc Bangalore, IISERs (7 – Berhampur, Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati), NITs (31), NITTTRs (4), and 9 others (SPA, ISMU, NERIST, SLIET, IIEST, NITIE & NIFFT, CIT).[9]

Organisational structure

The department is divided into eight bureaus, and most of the work of the department is handled through over 100 autonomous organisations under these bureaus.[10]

University and Higher Education; Minorities Education

Administration and Languages

Three Deemed Universities in the field of Sanskrit, viz.
Others

Others

Objectives

The main objectives of the ministry are:

MoE's Innovation Cell (MIC)

MHRD's Innovation Cell, now renamed as MoE's Innovation Cell, was established in August 2018[17] by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) at All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to systematically foster the culture of innovation, entrepreneurship and startups in all major Higher Education Institutions in India.[18] Abhay Jere was appointed as first Chief Innovation Officer.[19] [20]

Major initiatives of MIC

  1. Smart India Hackathon (SIH)[21]
  2. Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA)[22]
  3. Institution's Innovation Council (IICs)[23]
  4. National Innovation and Start-up Policy for Students and Faculties in HEIs (NISP)[24]
  5. Innovation Ambassadors Program[25]
  6. MBA/PGDM program in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Development (IEV)[26]

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)

In April 2016, Ministry of Human Resource Development published the first list of rankings of Indian colleges under National Institutional Ranking Framework.[27] [28] [29] The entire ranking exercise involved NBA, All India Council for Technical Education, UGC, Thomson Reuters, Elsevier and INFLIBNET (Information & Library Network) centre.[30] [31] The ranking framework was launched in September 2015.[32] All 122 centrally-funded institutions – including all central universities, IITs and IIMs – participated in the first round of ranking.[33] [34]

List of ministers

The minister of education, formerly the minister of human resources development (1985–2020),[35] is the head of the Ministry of Education and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India.

No.PortraitNameTerm of officePrime MinisterParty
1Maulana Abul Kalam Azad15 August 194722 January 1958Jawaharlal NehruIndian National Congress
2K. L. Shrimali22 January 195831 August 1963
3Humayun Kabir1 September 196321 November 1963
4M. C. Chagla21 November 196313 November 1966Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Indira Gandhi
5Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed14 November 196613 March 1967Indira Gandhi
6Triguna Sen16 March 196714 February 1969
7V. K. R. V. Rao14 February 196918 March 1971
8Siddhartha Shankar Ray18 March 197120 March 1972
9S. Nurul Hasan24 March 197224 March 1977
10Pratap Chandra Chunder26 March 197728 July 1979Morarji DesaiJanata Party
11Karan Singh30 July 197914 January 1980Charan SinghIndian National Congress (Urs)
12B. Shankaranand14 January 198017 October 1980Indira GandhiIndian National Congress
13Shankarrao Chavan17 October 19808 August 1981
14Sheila Kaul10 August 198131 December 1984Indira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi
15K. C. Pant31 December 198425 September 1985Rajiv Gandhi
16P. V. Narasimha Rao(Minister of Human Resource Development)25 September 198525 June 1988Rajiv Gandhi
17P. Shiv Shankar25 June 19882 December 1989
18V. P. Singh2 December 198910 November 1990V. P. SinghJanata Dal
(National Front)
19Raj Mangal Pande21 November 199021 June 1991Chandra ShekharSamajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
20Arjun Singh23 June 199124 December 1994P. V. Narasimha RaoIndian National Congress
(16)P. V. Narasimha Rao25 December 19949 February 1995
21Madhavrao Scindia10 February 199517 January 1996
(16)P. V. Narasimha Rao17 January 199616 May 1996
22Atal Bihari Vajpayee16 May 19961 June 1996Atal Bihari VajpayeeBharatiya Janata Party
23S. R. Bommai5 June 199619 March 1998H. D. Deve Gowda
I. K. Gujral		Janata Dal
24Murli Manohar Joshi19 March 199822 May 2004Atal Bihari VajpayeeBharatiya Janata Party
(20)Arjun Singh22 May 200422 May 2009Manmohan SinghIndian National Congress
25Kapil Sibal29 May 200929 October 2012
26M. M. Pallam Raju30 October 201226 May 2014
27Smriti Irani26 May 20145 July 2016Narendra ModiBharatiya Janata Party
28Prakash Javadekar5 July 201630 May 2019
2930 May 20197 July 2021
30Dharmendra Pradhan7 July 2021Incumbent

List of Ministers of State

Term!Prime Minister! colspan=2
Political Party
Renuka Devi Barkataki197719792 yearsMorarji DesaiJanata Party
Ram Shankar Katheria9 November 20145 July 2016Narendra ModiRowspan=2Bharatiya Janata PartyRowspan=2 bgcolor=#FF9933
Mahendra Nath Pandey5 July 20163 September 2017
Upendra Kushwaha9 November 201411 December 2018Rashtriya Lok Samta Party
Satya Pal Singh3 September 201730 May 2019Rowspan=7Bharatiya Janata PartyRowspan=7 bgcolor=#FF9933
Sanjay Dhotre
(Minister of State For Education from 29 July 2020 onwards)		31 May 20197 July 2021
Subhas Sarkar8 July 202111 June 2024
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
Annpurna Devi
Sukanta Majumdar11 June 2024Incumbent
Jayant Chaudhary

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: HRD Ministry Renamed as Ministry of Education as Modi Cabinet Reverses Change Made by Rajiv Gandhi. News18. 29 July 2020. 29 July 2020.
  2. Web site: Who's Who | Government of India, Ministry of Education. 2023-06-01. www.education.gov.in.
  3. Web site: How India's Education Ministry became 'HRD Ministry', and then returned to embrace Education. The Indian Express. Shyamlal. Yadav. 31 July 2020 . 2020-08-22.
  4. Web site: 29 July 2020. Cabinet Approves National Education Policy 2020, paving way for transformational reforms in school and higher education systems in the country. 2020-07-30. pib.gov.in.
  5. Web site: 29 July 2020. Union Cabinet Approves New National Education Policy. 2020-07-29. NDTV. en.
  6. Web site: UGC Act-1956. mhrd.gov.in/. Secretary, University Grants Commission. 1 February 2016.
  7. Web site: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IISST) Thiruvananthapuram Declared as Deemed to be University . 14 July 2008 . Ministry of Human Resource Development (India), Press Information Bureau .
  8. News: IIST gets deemed university status . https://web.archive.org/web/20080718225013/http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/15/stories/2008071550100100.htm. dead. 18 July 2008. 15 July 2008 . .
  9. Web site: MHRD Funded Technical Institutions | . 2014-05-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140701154313/http://mhrd.gov.in/funded_technical_inst_hindi . 1 July 2014. .
  10. http://www.education.nic.in/orgastru.asp ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
  11. http://www.education.nic.in/tech/tech_overview.asp Technical Education Overview
  12. http://www.education.nic.in/tech/tech_if-nlc.asp National Level Councils
  13. http://www.coa.gov.in/ Council of Architecture website
  14. Web site: Technical Education – Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development.
  15. Web site: NITTTRs | Government of India, All India Council for Technical Education. www.aicte-india.org.
  16. Web site: National University of Educational Planning and Administration . 21 February 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110703072553/http://www.nuepa.org/ . 3 July 2011 . dead .
  17. Web site: Innovation cell at AICTE formed. 2018-11-22. Deccan Chronicle. en. 2020-05-13.
  18. Web site: About MHRD'S Innovation Cell MHRD. www.mic.gov.in. 2020-05-13.
  19. Web site: Next generation should be problem solvers, says Abhay Jere, chief innovation officer. 2019-08-02. Hindustan Times. en. 2020-05-13.
  20. Web site: First Innovation Day Witnessed Huge Participation. NDTV.com. 2020-05-13.
  21. Web site: SIH. www.sih.gov.in. 2020-05-13.
  22. Web site: ARIIA Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements. www.ariia.gov.in. 2020-05-13.
  23. Web site: Institution's Innovation Council- An Initiative of Ministry of HRD. Institution's Innovation Council.
  24. Web site: MOE | MOE's Innovation Cell. nisp.mic.gov.in.
  25. Web site: MoE Innovation Cell. iic.mic.gov.in.
  26. Web site: MoE | MoE's Innovation Cell. iev.mic.gov.in.
  27. Web site: National Institutional Ranking Framework 2016 . MHRD. 6 August 2016. 2016.
  28. Web site: HRD Ministry announces universities ranking, JNU, HCU, IIT M, IIM B top the list. 5 April 2016.
  29. News: University ranking: At least four TN-run universities in the list. Special Correspondent. The Hindu. 4 April 2016 .
  30. News: JNU, Hyderabad univ among top 10 varsities: Survey | India News. The Times of India. 4 April 2016 .
  31. Web site: Claims of institutions not cross-checked. Samarth Bansal. The Hindu.
  32. Web site: IISc ranked India's best university; IIM-B tops B-School list. Staff Writer. 4 April 2016. Livemint.
  33. Web site: Is your institute one of India's best? Check out the best-ranked universities in India!.
  34. Web site: IIMB ranked No 1 in the India Rankings 2016 in the Management Education category – Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
  35. Web site: HRD Ministry Renamed as Ministry of Education as Modi Cabinet Reverses Change Made by Rajiv Gandhi. News18. 29 July 2020. 29 July 2020.

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