Hrd Ministry News

New Delhi, July 31: The government has proposed to formulate a new education policy to meet challenges posed by lack of quality, research and innovation in Indian educational institutions, parliament was told Wednesday. "The government proposes to formulate ...

New Delhi, July 31: Over 1.3 million students from minority communities are pursuing higher education in India, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani informed parliament Wednesday. "As per the response received in the All India Survey on Higher ...

New Delhi, July 31: One of the reasons for reverting to the three-year undergraduate programme in Delhi University was to ensure that its students are not "put to any disadvantage" vis-a-vis students of other universities, Human Resource Development Minister ...

HRD ministry to Smriti Irani is contemplating bringing in a policy under which school/college dropouts can pursue higher education and obtain certificates. "We are preparing a framework for those who had to leave education midway, due to family ...

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 stipulates that all children in the 6-14 years age group be in school. So far 2.77 lakh schools have been constructed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) ...

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has received complaints regarding the closure/ discontinuation and non-declaration of the results of the various programmes/courses run by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) during last 2-3 years. Some of the ...

New Delhi, July 24: The government has decided to set up four new central universities in the country, parliament was told Wednesday. "The ministry of human resource development (HRD) has decided to set up four new central universities, ...

New Delhi, July 24: A total of 6,251 teachers' posts are lying vacant in the 39 central universities under the purview of the UGC, parliament was informed Wednesday. Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, in a written reply ...

New Delhi, July 24: An engineering college exclusively for women to be set up in Maharashtra has got approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said on Wednesday. ...

New Delhi, July 23: Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Tuesday met Norway's Ambassador to India Eivind S. Homme and discussed collaboration in various education related issues between the two nations. The Ambassador expressed the hope that under her ...

New Delhi, July 22: India now has 17.24 lakh out-of-school children, compared to 81.5 lakh in 2009, and an amount of Rs.339.97 crore has been sanctioned for special training centres for such children, parliament was informed Monday. The ...

New Delhi, July 22: The central government Monday said 36.5 percent and 40.8 percent of teaching positions were vacant in the country's 16 IITs and 30 NITs, respectively. "There are 36.5 percent and 40.8 percent vacancy in teaching ...

New Delhi, July 22: There are 274 universities and 7,070 colleges in India which have been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), HRD Minister Smriti Irani said Monday. Citing information provided by the University Grants ...

Seven India Institute of Technology (IITs) have teamed with Indian Institute of Science (IISC) to set up India's first virtual technology university. The IITs involved in this team are those based in Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur ...