Hrd Ministry News

Human Resource Development Ministry is making back-to-back changes in the education system. After announcing the replacement of the apex higher education regulator body, University Grants Commission (UGC), with Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), the HRD ministry has topped the headlines ...

Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar today announced an important decision by the government in regards to the engineering and medical admissions.  The entrance exams NEET and JEE required for these admissions will from 2019 be conducted twice a year. Also, ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released the merit list of the candidates selected for the CBSE Teacher's Awards 2017-2018. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will felicitate the awards on Teacher's Day (today) and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will confer ...

With a series of Tweets from the minister of human resource development, Prakash Javadekar has opened the gates to a big debate over the educational reforms in the country. He announced that the government has proposed to dissolve the apex higher ...

The Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, is hosting a series of AICTE-recognised online courses conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. The courses are intended for college students and graduates who would like to specialise in some ...

IIT Kharagpur is offering a free online course on Mechanism and Robot Kinematics Mechanism and Robot Kinematics. This is a twenty hours course that can be taken in sessions for a duration of 8 weeks. Anirvan DasGupta, a faculty in Mechanical ...

The Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India has recently announced a rural development project by bringing together hundreds of Universities under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan project. "A path-breaking and silo-breaking initiative that brings multiple ministries towards a fruitful rural ...

The Ministry of Human Resource Development is working towards achieving enrollment of one crore students for the government hosted online courses. Under the project titled Swayam, Swayam is the world's largest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is conducted all year round ...

Nearly a thousand educational institutes running B.Ed and D.Ed courses have been issued a show cause notice by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) for non-compliance to the stipulated norms. Why are the courses terminated? These courses will face closure ...

Nearly 7.58 lakh teachers in central and state universities will now get a pay hike. Education Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Wednesday the clearance of the Union Cabinet in this regard. Why was the decision to hike salary for teachers taken? ...

Department of Higher Education, MHRD, Government of India is calling out for applications from students to apply for its scholarship program, "the Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship." This is for college and university students 2017-18. Scholarship objective The main objective of ...

The Rajya Sabha passed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2017, which aims to provide a two-year window to around 11 lakh private and government teachers to get prescribed minimum qualifications for appointment. Human Resource and ...

Most of us love cheese and ice creams. But have you ever wondered about the technology behind these dairy products that derives so many by products from one source - milk? If you have, here is the right place for you ...

The bill was introduced by HRD minister Prakash Javadekar during the Budget session in March. And the bill was passed by the Lok Sabha, permitting Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) to award degrees, including MTech and Ph.D., as issued by ...