ADMINISTRATION
Organisational Structure 3.1.0 The Department of Education, one of the constituents of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, is under the overall charge of Minister of Human Resource Development. He is assisted by the Deputy Minister for Education and Culture. The secretariat of the Department is headed by the Secretary who is assisted by an Additional Secretary and an Educational Adviser ('Technical) The Department is organised into Bureaux, Divisions, Branches, Desks, Sections and Units. Each Bureau is under the charge of a Joint- Secretary/Joint Educational Adviser assisted by Divisional Heads. The set-up of the Department is shown in the organisation chart appended to this report.
Subordinate Offices/Autonomous Organisations 3.2.1 Over the years, a number of subordinate off ices and autonomous organisations have come up under the Department. The important subordinate offices are-
- The Directorate of Adult Education (DAE)
- The Central Hindi Directorate (CHD)
- The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT)
- The Bureau for Promotion of Urdu
- The Central Institute of Indian languages (CIIL)
3.2.2. The Important autonomous organisations are :
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi, a national level resource institution operating in the school sector.
The National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration' (NIEPA), New Delhi, another national level resource institution, specializing in problems of educational management.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) New Delhi, which coordinates and sets standards in the area of higher education.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, which coordinates and sets standards in the area of technical education.
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The following institutions are engaged in higher educational research.
* Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla.
* Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.
* Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi.
* Indian Council of Philosophical Research, (ICPR), New Delhi.
Central Universities * Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh.
* Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Banaras.
* University of Delhi, Delhi.
* University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
* Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.
* Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi.
* North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong.
* Pondicherry University, Pondicherry.
* Viswa Bharati University.
- The Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (KHS), Agra, which propagates Hindi in India and abroad.
- The Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, engaged in promotion and development of and research (from school to higher education level) in Sanskrit; it is an examining body too.
- The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), New Delhi, running schools for the benefit of the children of transferable Government employees.
- The Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, New Delhi, running schools for the benefit of talented rural children.The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) New Delhi, which affiliates Schools and conducts examinations.
- The National Book Trust, New Delhi.
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- In the area of Technical Education:-
* Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
* Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
* National Institute of Training in Industrial Engineering, Bombay.
* National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi.
* School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad.
* Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow.
* Technical Teacher Training Institutes at Bhopal, Calcutta, Chandigarh and Madras.
* Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) at Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras.
* Regional Engineering Colleges (Seventeen in number).
- The National Institute of Adult Education (NIAE).
3.2.3 While UGC, Central Universities and institutes like IITs were set up by Acts of Parliament, the other autonomous organisations were registered under the Societies Registration Act.
Functions3.3.0 Education is a concurrent subject. Concurrency implies a meaningful partnership between the Union Government and the States. The NPE states:
"While the role and responsibility of the States in regard to education will remain essentially unchanged, the Union Government would accept a larger responsibility to reinforce the national and integrative character of education, to maintain quality and standards (including those of the teaching profession at all levels), to study and monitor the educational requirements of the country as a whole in regard to manpower for development, to cater to the needs of research and advanced study, to look after the international aspects of education, culture and Human Resource Development and, in. general, to promote excellence at all levels of the educational pyramid throughout the country."
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The Department has been striving to fulfil the role perceived by the NPE and has been closely interacting with States and Union Territories.
Vigilance Activities 3.4.1 Sustained efforts were made to tone-up the administration and to maintain discipline amongst staff of the Department both at the headquarters and in the subordinate offices. Disciplinary proceedings against five officials were concluded and appropriate orders were passed in each case. Besides, disciplinary proceedings against four officials were initiated and disciplinary proceedings against officials (including four gazetted officers, initiated earlier in progress. Seven complaints pertaining to this Department (including four against gazetted officers) were processed for preliminary enquiry. Under preventive vigilance, an action plan was drawn up and surprise vigilance commission. Twenty sections and subordinate offices were conducted.
3.4.2 Of the fifty-seven autonomous organisations/public sector undertakings, linked with the Department of Education, forty-eight have so far accepted the Central Vigilance Commission's advisory jurisdiction. Of them, twenty-four organisations have appointed Chief Vigilance Officers with the approval of the Central Vigilance Commission. Twenty organisations have also created public grievance redressel machinery and designated Grievance Officers for redress of public grievances.
3.4.3 overall emphasis continued to be 'Laid on the observance of discipline and punctuality.
Progressive Use of Hindi in Official Work 3.5.1 The Department of Education, the largest Department, in the Ministry of Human Resource Development consists of 100 sections, 10 subordinate offices, one public sector undertaking and 75 autonomous organisations spread over throughout the country. During the year under review, the Annual Programme for Government of India for the year 1992-93 received from the Department of Official Language (Ministry of Home Affairs) was circulated in this Department, its subordinate offices and autonomous organisations with the request that- concerted efforts may be made to achieve the targets laid down therein and also to review the progress in this regard in the meetings of the Departmental official Language Implementation Committees (OLICS) of various offices/organisations under this department.Besides this, the position of compliance of Official Languages Act and the rules and various administrative instructions issued thereunder, was monitored through Quarterly Progress Reports and remedial measures suggested, wherever necessary.
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3.5.2 During the year under report, one meeting of the OLIC of the Department of Education was held and more meetings thereof are proposed to be convened during the remaining period of the year. Apart from this, OLICs also exist in various subordinate offices and autonomous organisations of the Department. The officers of the Official Language Unit of the Department attended these meetings and discussed various measures to increase the progressive use of Hindi in those offices.
3.5.3 Hindi Workshops are also proposed to be conducted to impart practical experience of working in Hindi, various courses under the Hindi Teaching Scheme of the Department of official Language, viz., Hindi Typing, Hindi Stenography and Hindi Prabodh/Praveen and Pragya courses.
3.5.5 The Committee of Parliament on Official Language visited and inspected various offices/organisations of this Department itself, i.e. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi and Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, etc. The officers of the department concerned with the Official Language Implementation Work represented the Department during these inspections. The Committee, during inspection of this Department on 23rd September 1992, while appreciating the magnitude of work being done by this Department in view of large number of offices/organisations, also pointed that the monitoring of implementation work of these offices/organisations, needs to be strengthened.
3.5.6 Hindi Day/Hindi Week was celebrated in the Department from 14th to 18th September, 1992. On this occasion, a message from Hon'ble Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh and appeal from Hon'ble Deputy Minister for Education and Culture, Kum. Shelja and instructions from Education Secretary S.V. Giri Were issued urging greater use of Hindi in official work. Competitions in Hindi Typing, Hindi Stenography and Hindi Essay Writing were also held and the employees securing First, Second and Third positions were given cash awards of Rs.500/-, Rs.300/- and Rs.200/- respectively.
3.5.7 Hindi Salahkar Samiti of the Department is being reconstituted and nominations of Members of Parliament from the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs are being obtained.
3.5.8 During the period under report, 24 offices, wherein more than 80 per cent of the staff had acquired working knowledge of Hindi, were notified under rule 10(4) of Official Languages Rules, 1976.
3.5.9 Thus, the Department of Education is constantly engaged in maximising the use of Hindi in the Department as well as in its offices/organisations to secure greater compliance of
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Official Languages Act and Rules.
Publications 3.6.0 The Publication Unit brought out fourteen publications in English including bilingual (English and Hindi) upto December 1992. The Unit continued to handle the work of authentication of original educational certificates of Indians going abroad and foreign students studying in India.
Deputations/Delegations Abroad 3.7.0 The number of deputations/delegations of Government officials and non-officials sent abroad during the year 1992-93 and the foreign exchange incurred thereon is presented in the Table below:
No. of Delegations/ No. of persons included Foreign Exchange
Deputations in the delegations/ Component
deputations (Estimated in Rs.)
24 35 Rs.10,62,281
Budget Estimates
3.8.0 The budget provisions for 1992-93 and 1993-94 in respect of
Department of Education are as under:-
[Rs. in Crore]
Particulars BE 1992-93 RE 1992-93 BE 1993-94
Demand No.47
Department of 1725.17 1824.17 2149.31
Education
Provision for:
Secretariat for the Department
including the Pay and Accounts
offices, Hospitality and
Entertainment. General
Education, other revenue
expenditure of the Department
including provisions for
grants-in-aid to States/UTs on
Central/Centrally Sponsored
Schemes (Plan) and also
provision for loans for
Central and Centrally
Sponsored Schemes.
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Professional Development and Training of Staff 3.9.1 The Training Cell in the Department has been functioning with the objective of improving knowledge, attitudes and behavioural skills of officers and staff working in the Department.
3.9.2 During 1992-93, as many as 21 officers were deputed for various training programmes/courses in India while two officers were deputed for training abroad. Besides, officers belonging to the IAS are also deputed for compulsory one-week/three week training programmes organised by the Department of Personnel and Training.
3.9.3 Keeping in view the need to develop a proper strategy for the training of the officers/staff of the Department of Education, during 1992-93 Professor Vinayshil Gantam, Head, Centre for Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi had been assigned a consultancy to develop course content for the training of officers/staff of the Department.
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