Hrd Ministry News

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) council has decided to change the pattern for the post of IIT directors. The composition of the search-cum selection committee for the director's post of IITs has been changed. Usually, IIT council and selection ...

Ministry of Human Resource Department (MHRD) and University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi has plan to make Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College to autonomous college. The teachers of LSR college have written a letter to UGC chairperson, that they dont ...

In a meeting held in New Delhi on Monday, between government officials and the council of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), a decision was made to increase the intake of the students to IITs. IIT council wants more 60% students ...

The 47th meeting of the Council of IITs held at New Delhi was chaired by Union HRD Minister Dr M. M. Pallam Raju. The major issue which was discussed related to positioning of IITs globally. Although the undergraduate engineering programmes ...

Female literacy is necessary for socio-economic development in India, Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju said Wednesday. Addressing a colloquium organised by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) on "Advancing towards a Literate Twenty-first Century" in Paris, ...

The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, while addressing the colloquium organised by UNESCO on "Advancing towards a Literate Twenty-first Century" said that Saakshar Bharat is the world's largest literacy programme with a futuristic vision and contemporary ...

The HRD Ministry has sent proposals to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and the Department of Economic Affairs to permit foreign universities to open their campuses in the country as companies as provided under the Companies Act. As ...

The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee has called for achieving literacy rate at par with leading countries in the world. Speaking at the International Literacy Day celebration held at New Delhi, Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that the time has come ...

New Delhi: Around eight million people in India join the workforce but only 1-1.5 million get jobs, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Jitin Prasada said here Monday. Employability is a challenge and distance education is the only way ...

The Human Resource Development Minister, Dr M M Pallam Raju today inaugurated the sixth Global Skills Summit (GSS) at FICCI today. In his speech he said, "we are working toward achieving national goal of skilling 50 crore Indians by 2022." While ...

The Union Minister for Human Resource Development Dr M M Pallam Raju was presented a report on "Geospatial Education" by Dr K Kasturirangan, Member Planning Commission who headed the National Task Force on ‘Evolving Geospatial Strategy' here today. Speaking on ...

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 mandates eight years of elementary education to all children in the 6 to 14 years age group. While supply side provisioning is being done by the Government, at ...

After completion of JEE Main 2013 engineering seat allotment process, students found mistakes in the allotted seats. Some deserving candidates, who were denied admission in the B.Tech programmes due to software glitch during the counselling process. Human Resource Development ...

The HRD Ministry along with CIET (Central Institute of Educational Technology) has come up with a new initiative called National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER). NROER aims to offer resources for all school subjects and grades in multiple ...