ORGANISATION
The Ministry of Education is under the charge of a Cabinet Minister. The
Secretariat of the Ministry is headed by the Secretary assisted by one Special
Secretary (Higher Education) and an Educational Adviser (Technical). The
Ministry is organised into Bureaux, Divisions, 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 Ministry is indicated
in the organisational chart appended to the report.
Subordinate Offices/ Over the years, a number of subordinate offices and organisations have
Autonomous Organisations come up under the Ministry. For coordination and determination of stan-
dards in higher education, the University Grants Commission was set-up by
an Act of Parliament. Besides, a number of organisations have been set-up to
discharge specific responsibilities. Among them is the National Council of
Educational Research and Training which strives to promote qualitative
aspects of school education throughout the country. The other important
organisations are:
i) National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New
Delhi.
ii) Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla.
iii) Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
iv) Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.
v) Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi.
vi) Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, New Delhi.
vii) Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.
viii) Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra.
ix) Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
x) Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad.
xi) Central Hindi Directorate, New Delhi.
xii) Commission for Scientific & Technical Terminology, New Delhi.
xiii) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi.
xiv) National Book Trust, New Delhi.
xv) Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education, Gwalior.
in the field of Technical Education, there are the Indian Institute of Sci-
ence, 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; Adminstrative Staff College of India,. Hyderabad; three Indian
Institutes of Management, at Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta; four
Technical Teachers' Training Institutes, at Bhopal, Calcutta, Chandigarh and
Madras; Five Indian Institutes of Technology, at Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur,
Kharagpur and Madras, and fifteen Regional Engineering Colleges, spread
all over the country.
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Functions Important functions of the Ministry of Education are: to evolve educati-
onal policy in all aspects and to coordinate and determine the standards of
higher education and technical education; to administer Copyright Act; to
improve the quality of textbooks; to administer scholarships and other
schemes; to coordinate programmes of assistance and other activities with
the UNESCO; to develop and coordinate research in social sciences; to foster
and encourage studies and research in Sanskrit and other classical lan-
guages; to develop activities in the field of non-formal education, and to
promote adult education.
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