THE EDUCATION MINISTRY

VK Saraswat bats for independent ministry for pharmaceuticals

“There is a need for creating an independent ministry for pharmaceuticals. Time has come to expand and consolidate efforts in the pharma se...

AI helps track 56 JEE candidates who are potential impersonators

The agency has alerted the test centres and images as well as identification documents of these candidates during entry for the exams are b...

Appoint industry experts as professors of practice at IITs, says panel

The idea, said the panel’s report, is to “open up opportunities for the academician to propose solutions to real world problems” and to ste...

Education Ministry revives Vedic education proposal

A meeting has been scheduled where representatives of MSRVP and officials of Department of School Education, the National Council of Educat...

Will request Education Ministry to include the story of Major Khathing in school text books: Kiren Rijiju

Major Kathing, who established Indian administrative control over Tawang way back in 1951, will now have a memorial set up by the Arunachal...

Sikkim to reopen schools for LKG-class 5 students from Monday

Classroom teaching for senior students had started in a phased manner in the Himalayan state from October. Schools were closed since March ...

No proposal to relax UGC-NET requirement for lecturership posts in varsities, colleges: Edu Min

Union Minister of Education Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' made the statement in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha.

Only 18% tribal students had access to online education: Ministry

​​The Centre, however, has no data on the attendance in the EMRS after reopening of schools.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas can resume for classes 10, 12 in states where schools allowed to reopen: Education Ministry

JNVs, a chain of residential co-ed government schools, were closed for summer vacation in March last year after the outburst of COVID-19 pa...

UGC-NET exam to be conducted in May: Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'

The NTA, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Education, issued the notification for the test on Tuesday.

Budget 2021: 6% cut in allocation for education sector

The Centre has slashed allocation for education by about 6%, even as it announced development of 15,000 ‘Adarsh Vidyalayas’ (model schools)...

Education Budget 2021-22: Education gets Rs 93,224 cr, Rs 8100 cr more than revised estimates

The allocation for the education ministry has been cut to Rs 93,223 crore from Rs 99,311 crore for the current financial year, as per the b...

COVID-19 impact: Door-to-door survey to enroll students, relaxing detention norms recommended by Education Ministry

The ministry has also recommended relaxing detention norms to prevent drop-outs this year as well as a slew of measures to address learning...

Vaccine rollout: Education ministry roped in to build confidence in safety of vaccines

The health ministry has requested that the huge network of field networks including educational institutes to collaborate with it to ensure...

Union Education Ministry releases Rs 80 crore to IIT Kharagpur for second phase of SPARC

Adrijit Goswami from IIT Kharagpur, who is heading the Pan India coordination of the programme, said the allocation would help in promoting...

Centre’s health and education initiatives for tribals run into hurdles in states

Of 1,530 proposals, while 205 were rejected on various grounds, 1,325 were found deserving. Of these 1,288 are still pending at the state l...

Education Ministry seeks extension of loan-based funding

Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has written to his colleague Nirmala Sitharaman and education secretary Amit Khare has also taken up th...