Tag: Hrd Ministry

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 […]

Bhubaneswar: The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is likely to announce the fresh JEE and NEET exam dates for 2020. The exams were postponed due to nationwide lockdown announced to contain the spread of COVID-19. The announcement by HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ will give a big relief to the engineering and medical aspirants […]

New Delhi: The interim report on the new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for school education, which is being revised after 15 years, will be submitted by December and the new curriculum is expected to be ready by March next year, according to the HRD Ministry. “The new NCF for School Education has been initiated. NCERT […]

In order to engage students meaningfully during their stay at home due to COVID-19 through educational activities at home with the help of their parents and teachers, the alternative academic calendars for students, parents and teachers at primary and upper primary stage have been developed by the NCERT under the guidance of the MHRD. Union […]

Bhubaneswar/ New Delhi: In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry on Friday decided to postpone the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main and National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET 2020). The JEE examination will now be held between September 1 to 6, JEE advanced exam will be held on September 27 and […]

Bhubaneswar: Considering the current COVID-19 pandemic situation, it’s not possible to conduct the final semester exams of Under Graduate and Post Graduate students, Odisha government informed the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on Thursday. In a letter, the State government urged the HRD Ministry to reconsider the revised guidelines of the University Grants Commission […]