Hrd Ministry News

New Delhi, March 10:The human resource development ministry on Monday launched a "Digital Gender Atlas for girls" in a move to identify and ensure equitable education for girls in the country. The tool, developed with the support of ...

New Delhi, March 5: Sanskrit is not only being popularised in schools in the country but also abroad in all CBSE-affliated schools, the government today said. "Yes," said HRD Minister Smriti Irani in a written reply in Lok Sabha on ...

New Delhi, March 5: The government awards 100,000 scholarships to selected meritorious students of Class 9 from economically weaker sections in order to prevent them from dropping out of school, the human resource development ministry said. The Department of School ...

New Delhi, March 5:The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) offers counselling services to students and parents of CBSE affiliated schools to help them deal with examination and result related stress. The service is a community outreach programme ...

The central government of India is planning to invite 800 academic experts from around the world to teach in institutes of the country, according to the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani. The new measure is expected to ...

Bhubaneswar, March 3: Ahead of elections to the Sambalpur municipal corporation in Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday urged the Centre to set up the proposed Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Sambalpur under relaxed guidelines. In a letter ...

New Delhi: Giving a boost to higher learning and with the promise of providing one major central institute in each state, the government on Saturday earmarked Rs 26,855 crore for higher education, an increase of over 13 per cent over last ...

New Delhi, February 25: The possibility of an university dedicated to arts and crafts is being actively considered by the Government. The HRD Ministry has set up a committee to explore the possibility of having such a university and submit ...

Srinagar, February 16: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today assured PDP President Mehbooba Mufti that the Centre would extend all help to Kashmiri students under the Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) and look into the complaints over the scheme. ...

New Delhi: The government could propose an ambitious programme of setting up of 'kindergarten to post graduate' institutions in educationally-backward districts of the country. The proposal in under consideration of the HRD Ministry and could be mentioned in the Union ...

New Delhi, Feb 4: The government has asked NCERT to complete the process of consultations on the new education policy with stakeholders by August and submit a report to it by September. HRD Minister Smriti Irani also favoured publication of ...

The Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE), New Delhi has sent a letter to Human Resource Development Ministry (HRD) that board will not take the responsible to conduct the National Eligibility Test (NET) in June 2015. Due to work overload ...

Mumbai, Feb 02: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said the Rotary Club of India has partnered with her ministry to help one lakh children, who had stopped going to school due to various reasons, to continue with their education. ...

The Government of India is currently trying to devise a process of rating academic institutes in the country, in a bid to simplify the process of student loans. A list ranking the institutes will aid the Ministry of Human Resource ...