Ministry of Education (India)

For list of ministers, see Minister of Education (India).

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.

Ministry of Education

Ministry overview
Formed	15 August 1947; 77 years ago (1947-08-15)
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Shastri Bhawan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi
Annual budget	₹112,899 crore (US$14 billion) (2023–24)
Minister responsible	Dharmendra Pradhan, Cabinet Minister
Deputy Ministers responsible	Sukanta Majumdar, Minister of State Jayant Chaudhary, Minister of State
Ministry executive	K Sanjay Murthy, IAS
Child agencies	Department of School Education and Literacy Department of Higher Educationt Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for ISBN
Website	education.gov.in

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.

• Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
• Central Tibetan School Administration (CTSA)
• Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS)
• National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
• National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)
• National Foundation for Teachers' Welfare
• National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
• Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS)
• Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS)
• Bharatiya Shiksha Board (BSB)

Department of Higher Education

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).^{[clarification needed][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

• University Grants Commission (UGC)
• Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
• Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)
• Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)
• 56 Central university (India) as on 11.09.2021 list issued by University Grants Commission

Technical Education

• All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE)^[11][12]
• Council of Architecture (COA)^[13]
• 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
• 31 National Institutes of Technology (NITs)
• 25 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs)
• Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST)
• 21 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)^[14]
• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
• 7 Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs)
• North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST)
• National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (NIAFT)
• 4 National Institutes of Technical Teachers' Training & Research (NITTTRs)^[15] (Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai and Kolkata)
• 4 Regional Boards of Apprenticeship / Practical Training
• 3 School of Planning and Architecture (SPAs)

Administration and Languages

Three Deemed Universities in the field of Sanskrit, viz.

• Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (RSkS) in New Delhi,
• Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (SLBSRSV) New Delhi,
• Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (RSV) Tirupati

Others

• Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (KHS), Agra
• English and Foreign Language University (EFLU), Hyderabad
• National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL)
• Central Universities of India
• Gandhigram Rural University (GRI)
• National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL)
• Three subordinate offices: Central Hindi Directorate (CHD), New Delhi; Commission for Scientific & Technological Terminology (CSTT), New Delhi; and Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore
• Distance Education and Scholarships
  • Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
• UNESCO, International Cooperation, Book Promotion and Copyrights, Education Policy, Planning and Monitoring
• Integrated Finance Division.
• Statistics, Annual Plan and CMIS
• Administrative Reform, North Eastern Region, SC/ST/OBC

Others

• National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA)^[16]
• National Book Trust (NBT)
• National Board of Accreditation (NBA)
• National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI)
• National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
• Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS)

Objectives

The main objectives of the ministry are:

• Formulating the National Policy on Education and to ensure that it is implemented in letter and spirit
• Planned development, including expanding access and improving the quality of the educational institutions throughout the country, including in regions where people do not have easy access to education.
• Paying special attention to disadvantaged groups like the poor, females and minorities
• Provide financial help in the form of scholarships, loan subsidies, etc. to deserving students from deprived sections of the society.
• Encouraging international cooperation in the field of education, including working closely with UNESCO and foreign governments as well as Universities, to enhance the educational opportunities in the country.

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.	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	15 August 1947	22 January 1958	10 years, 160 days	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress
2		K. L. Shrimali[lower-alpha 1]	22 January 1958	31 August 1963	5 years, 221 days
3		Humayun Kabir	1 September 1963	21 November 1963	81 days
4		M. C. Chagla	21 November 1963	13 November 1966	2 years, 357 days	Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi
5		Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	14 November 1966	13 March 1967	119 days	Indira Gandhi
6		Triguna Sen	16 March 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 335 days
7		V. K. R. V. Rao	14 February 1969	18 March 1971	2 years, 32 days
8		Siddhartha Shankar Ray	18 March 1971	20 March 1972	1 year, 2 days
9		S. Nurul Hasan[lower-alpha 2]	24 March 1972	24 March 1977	5 years, 0 days
10		Pratap Chandra Chunder	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 124 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
11		Karan Singh	30 July 1979	14 January 1980	168 days	Charan Singh	Indian National Congress (Urs)
12		B. Shankaranand	14 January 1980	17 October 1980	277 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
13		Shankarrao Chavan	17 October 1980	8 August 1981	295 days
14		Sheila Kaul[lower-alpha 3]	10 August 1981	31 December 1984	3 years, 143 days	Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
15		K. C. Pant	31 December 1984	25 September 1985	268 days	Rajiv Gandhi
16		P. V. Narasimha Rao (Minister of Human Resource Development)	25 September 1985	25 June 1988	2 years, 274 days	Rajiv Gandhi
17		P. Shiv Shankar	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
18		V. P. Singh	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	V. P. Singh	Janata Dal (National Front)
19		Raj Mangal Pande	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
20		Arjun Singh	23 June 1991	24 December 1994	3 years, 184 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
(16)		P. V. Narasimha Rao	25 December 1994	9 February 1995	47 days
21		Madhavrao Scindia	10 February 1995	17 January 1996	341 days
(16)		P. V. Narasimha Rao	17 January 1996	16 May 1996	120 days
22		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
23		S. R. Bommai	5 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 287 days	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral	Janata Dal
24		Murli Manohar Joshi	19 March 1998	22 May 2004	6 years, 64 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
(20)		Arjun Singh	22 May 2004	22 May 2009	5 years, 0 days	Manmohan Singh	Indian National Congress
25		Kapil Sibal	29 May 2009	29 October 2012	3 years, 153 days
26		M. M. Pallam Raju	30 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 208 days
27		Smriti Irani	26 May 2014	5 July 2016	2 years, 40 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
28		Prakash Javadekar	5 July 2016	30 May 2019	2 years, 329 days
29		Ramesh Pokhriyal	30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
30		Dharmendra Pradhan	7 July 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 118 days

List of Ministers of State

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Education

Portrait	Minister of state	Term			Prime Minister	Political Party
	Renuka Devi Barkataki	1977	1979	2 years	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
	Ram Shankar Katheria	9 November 2014	5 July 2016	1 year, 239 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Mahendra Nath Pandey	5 July 2016	3 September 2017	1 year, 60 days
	Upendra Kushwaha	9 November 2014	11 December 2018	4 years, 32 days		Rashtriya Lok Samta Party
	Satya Pal Singh	3 September 2017	30 May 2019	1 year, 269 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
	Sanjay Dhotre (Minister of State For Education from 29 July 2020 onwards)	31 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 37 days
	Subhas Sarkar	8 July 2021	11 June 2024	2 years, 339 days
	Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
	Annpurna Devi
	Sukanta Majumdar	11 June 2024	Incumbent	144 days
	Jayant Chaudhary

See also

• Minister of Education (India)
• National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Chennai
• Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation
• U-DISE
• National Achievement Survey

Notes

1. Minister of State till 10 August 1962
2. Minister of State
3. Minister of State

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External links

• Official website