Hrd Ministry News

The HRD Ministry recently constituted a committee on question paper design for Class 12 board exams which was headed by E P Kharbhih, Executive Chairman of the Meghalaya Board of School Education, over a year ago. The committee has come up ...

To restore the quality of education in the state of Madhya Pradesh, the government headed by education minister Vijay Shah has decided to scrap the no-detention policy of the HRD Ministry. The no-detention policy is a mandatory provision under the Right ...

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the country have decided to increase the intake of foreign students by 10%. It means, there will be around 1000 foreign students apart from the already existing students at the IITs. The Indian Institutes ...

In the first meeting of Project Vishwajeet, the HRD Ministry has agreed to set up state-of-the-art research laboratories to match international facilities. As part of the project, special focus and funding will be granted to 7 IITs in Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, ...

With an aim to make the Indian Institutes of Management and the Indian Institutes of Technology 'World Class' institutes of education, the HRD Minister has urged the institutions to go beyond their area of specilisation. He has suggested the IIMs and ...

The HRD ministry has extended the date of submitting application form for various job vacancies in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs). The last date to apply has been extended to October 16. According to the officials, the JNV website was having some ...

Indian education system is undergoing a lot of changes recently. It would be apt to call the moves of the HRD Ministry in the field of education the big and revolutionary steps required for the reformation of education at each and ...

A three-member committee was set up by the HRD Ministry to suggest measures to curb vacant seats during admissions into IITs and other centrally funded technical institutions. The committee is headed by IIT Kharagpur director Partha Pratim Chakraborty and consisting of ...

The Union HRD minister, Prakash Javadekar, said that improving the quality of education in India still remains a major challenge. He was talking in the 'Young Makers Conclave'. He said that there are 270 million students in the country from KG ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has written to the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry about the 'extraneous burden' created on it due to the practice of it being asked to conduct various examinations which are outside its purview. Ahead ...

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) counseling in Madhya Pradesh has been canceled by the Supreme Court of India. The counseling sessions held so far by the private colleges of Madhya Pradesh will be canceled after the order from the ...

Union minister for Human Resource Development (HRD), Prakash Javadekar, has asked IIMs to double their intake from 10,000 students to 20,000 students per year. In a meeting with the directors and chairmen of 20 IIMs at IIM Shillong, the HRD minister ...

The central government is planning to introduce caste-based reservation system in teaching positions of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). The HRD ministry will be holding talks with the chiefs of these B-schools in this regard. Chairmen and directors of IIMs will ...

With an aim to ease the burden of high cut-offs in university admissions across various colleges in the country, the HRD Ministry has come up with a new idea of implementing a common entrance examination for all central universities. This attempt ...