Hrd Ministry News

New Delhi, December 8: Emphasing on the need to develop skills in higher education, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Saturday exhorted states and union territories to adopt the credit framework for skills and education and the choice based credit system ...

New Delhi, December 4: Eighty four differently-abled students are likely to be benefited under the government's Saksham scholarship scheme during the current financial year, parliament was told Wednesday. The scheme is being implemented by the ministry of human ...

The Ministry of HRD is implementing the scheme for providing financial assistance to students belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and backward classes to pursue their higher education abroad. Viz Central Scheme to provide interest Subsidy. Under the scheme full ...

The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Smt Smriti Irani presented the awards to the District and Block level Education Officers for innovations in Educational Administration at a function, organized by National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA). While ...

The government dismissed talks about any move to change NCERT textbooks, particularly on history. The human resource development ministry informed the Lok Sabha that there is no proposal to study the history textbooks for taking "corrective measures". The ministry said, ...

New Delhi, November 27: Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Wednesday said that over five lakh government schools do not have electricity connection, and over two lakh school premises lack toilet facilities. "As per Unified District Information System ...

New Delhi, Nov 27: A bill to bring four institutes of information technology under the ambit of a single authority and help students get degrees were passed in the Lok Sabha. The Indian Institutes of Information and Technology (IIIT) Bill, ...

New Delhi, Nov 27: A total of 25.03 lakh Children With Special Needs (CWSN) have been enrolled in schools across the country this year and 2.06 lakh such kids are being covered through home based education. HRD Minister Smriti Irani ...

New Delhi, Nov 26: A bill to bring four institutes of information technology under the ambit of a single authority was today taken up in Lok Sabha, a move that was welcomed by members from across the political spectrum. Moving ...

New Delhi, November 25: Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Monday emphasised on strengthening cooperation with the Unesco across all its areas of competence. In a meeting with Unesco Director General Irina Bokova, the minister highlighted India's achievements in ...

New Delhi, Nov 24: India has officially jumped on to the open online courses bandwagon with the government announcing Swayam, an initiative that aims at providing affordable and quality education to citizens for free. The move is a welcome step ...

The German government has decided to help to set up Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (CASHSS) in India. Earlier, HRD Ministry had directed Kendriya Vidyalaya to remove the German language ...

New Delhi, Nov 20: Days after directing replacement of German with Sanskrit as third language, the government has said the students wanting to study this foreign language can still do so as an "additional" subject and has decided to ...

The India and US Higher Education Dialogue was held at New Delhi on November 17, 2014. This Dialogue was Co-Chaired by Mr. Satya N. Mohanty, Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry for Human Resource Development, India and Mr. Richard Stengel, U.S.Under Secretary of ...