MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

FM Nirmala Sitharaman asks health ministry, water resources department to push infra spending under NIP

During the meeting, the finance minister asked the two ministries/ departments to push infra expenditure by effectively implementing all NI...

HR has its work cut out in 2021: Focus on privacy, return-to-office steps, and keeping employee morale in place

While HR leaders are now focusing on keeping employees engaged and productive in these times, there are a number of trends to be prepared f...

View: Improve oil and gas ploughing before global fuel consumption returns to normal

India, the third-largest oil consumer after the US and China, needs to ensure supply security, especially in the crucial post-Covid economi...

Home Secretary says e-human resource management system will become effective tool for all ministries

With the advanced version of e-HRMS, employees will be able to not only see all their details with respect to service book, leave, GPF, sal...

ET Industry Leaders East 2020: Celebrating businesses that help revive the economic growth in East India

ET Industry Leaders East 2020 is an initiative to discover the leaders from various industries in the eastern part of the country who have ...

Women are valuable human resource, there should be zero tolerance towards gender insensitivity: HC

The observations came while allowing the appeal of a woman against a single judge order imposing Rs 50,000 cost on her and directing initia...

KITE among elite list of best models in HRD category of NITI Aayog

As part of the Hi-Tech school projects, KITE has completed the deployment of 3.74 lakh ICT equipment in 16,027 government and aided schools...

Amid global disruption, employee skill development is key for organisations looking to stay competitive: Study

An IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study, titled “Accelerating the Journey to HR 3.0,” reveals that CHROs overwhelmingly agree that ...

Akshaya Patra aims to serve mid-day meals to 5 million children by 2025

As the implementing partner of the Government of India's flagship school feeding programme, the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, Akshaya Patra serves o...

Kerala set to receive central funds for literacy programmes after 10 years of gap

Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority, the autonomous agency under the state government, said that it was for the first time in the last ...

IIT Guwahati develops low-cost technology to produce psychoactive drugs from agricultural resources

The technology is patented and developed by Prof. Mihir Kumar Purkait, Head, Centre for the Environment, and Professor, Department of Chemi...

Approach to development should be human-centric: PM Modi at US-India summit

"The pandemic has impacted several things but it has not impacted the aspirations and of ambitions of 1.3 billion Indians. In recent months...

President gives nod for changing name of HRD Ministry to Ministry of Education

President Ram Nath Kovind notified Union Cabinet's decision to rename Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as Ministry of Educatio...

Cabinet approves new National Education Policy, HRD ministry renamed Education Ministry: Ramesh Pokhriyal

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) and renamed the HRD Ministry as Education Minist...

Final exams unlikely for students of state-run universities in Bengal

The decision on the matter was taken at a meeting of the West Bengal Vice-Chancellors Council on Friday evening, in which the latest guidel...

HRD ministry makes 1st attempt to know student access to net and computer

Only 24% Indian households have Internet access, there is no clear assessment yet on the subject.

IIM autonomy in doubt after 1 year degree order

Directors of leading IIMs said the issue will be discussed within the institutes and with the government in the context of the autonomy pro...