Tag: Hrd Ministry

Under Ministry of Human Resource Development’s purview, various skill-oriented courses are implemented by University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) through Community Colleges, Bachelor of Vocation courses (B.VoC) & Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) Kausal Kendras to boost the employability of youth. According to an information provided by Union Minister for […]

New Delhi: In a first, no seats have been vacant this year at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the country, according to HRD Ministry officials. “There have been a total of 13,604 undergraduate admissions in IITs this year with nil vacant seats. This is the first time ever to fill all seats […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to make the education system more transparent, Union Human Resources and Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Wednesday launched ‘Shagun,’ an online integrated junction of various education portals. Shagun is an over-arching initiative to improve school education system by creating a junction for all online portals and websites relating to various activities […]

New Delhi: The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has declared five institutions, including IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University and the University of Hyderabad as the Institutions of Eminence (IoE). “On September 4, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, on the advice of UGC and the Empowered Expert Committee issued orders […]

New Delhi: The HRD Ministry, which is in process of giving final shape to the new National Education Policy (NEP), has laid down a six-point roadmap for its implementation and decided to conduct a comprehensive review of the implementation status in 2030. After some state governments and stakeholders raised concerns about the NEP draft, saying […]

New Delhi: No final decision has been taken yet on merging the University Grants Commission and the All India Council of Technical Education, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said on Thursday. “Till now no final decision has been taken on this issue,” Nishank said in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha. Last […]

New Delhi: A new national education policy will be in public domain very soon and it will establish the glory of India in the world, the HRD Ministry said on Tuesday. Addressing the Swachh Campus Ranking, 2019 award ceremony at AICTE through video conferencing, HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank appealed to the students to pledge […]

New Delhi: The UGC regulations on minimum qualifications for appointment of teachers and other academic staff in universities and colleges may be amended, the HRD ministry said on Thursday after its officials held a meeting with office-bearers of Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) over the issue of absorption of ad-hoc teachers. The teachers had barricaded […]

New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has deferred the decision to hike M.Tech fee in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) for further discussion on the issue. While the ministry had in September announced the decision by the IIT council to implement the fee hike, the issue will again be taken up […]

New Delhi: Under an initiative of the Union Human Resource Development Ministry, a special health card will be issued to the students of government schools by the government. The health card will have the information of the students on the basis of their age. It will have their medical history including weight, their diseases, if […]

Bhubaneswar: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Wednesday postponed JEE (Main) April 2020 examination which was earlier scheduled to be held from April 5 to 11. The decision by the Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry is part of the ongoing preventive measures to check the spread of coronavirus infection. As per the latest notification issued […]

New Delhi: The HRD ministry on Saturday advised all educational institutions to let students who are still in hostels to stay put and take necessary precautions in view of the coronavirus outbreak. “Students who are still in hostels, particularly foreign students, should be allowed to continue in their hostels and advised to take all necessary […]

New Delhi: The Centre has urged private schools across the country not to increase school fees, and not to charge three-month fees in one go following spread of coronavirus and subsequent lockdown. It has asked states to interface with guardians/parents and schools to have a coordinated approach. Sources said parents and guardians have taken up […]

New Delhi: The Human Resource Development Ministry on Monday announced that the entrance exams to different technical education courses that were postponed amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the imposed lockdown to prevent transmission, will now be held after the lockdown ends. However, no dates have yet been announced for conducting entrance tests for different courses […]

New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ today asked all States to start evaluation of Board examination papers. Responding to a question of conducting the remaining CBSE exams, Pokhriyal told parents in an interaction on Monday that the pending exams will be conducted at the first possible opportunity. Also Read: CBSE To […]