ORGANISATION
The Ministry of Education and Culture comprises two Departments viz.,
the Department of Education and the Department of Culture, both under
the charge of Minister of State assisted by a Deputy Minister.
The Secretariat of the Ministry is headed by the Secretary assisted by
one Special Secretary (Higher Education), Additional Secretary and Edu-
cational Adviser (Technical). The Ministry is organised into Bureaus,
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 both the Departments is indicated in the organisational chart
appended to the report. The Archaeological Survey of India is an attached
office under the Department of Culture and is headed by the Director General
who is responsible to additional Secretary.
Attached and Subordinate The Ministry has two attached offices viz., National Archives of India
Offices/Autonomous and the Archaeological Survey of India under the Department of Culture.
Organisations Over the years, a number of subordinate offices and organisations have come
up under the Ministry. For coordination and determination of standards
in higher education, the University Grants Commission was set up under
a Parliament legislation. 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 Vidayalaya Sangthan, New Delhi.
(vii) Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.
(viii) Central Institute of Hindi, Agra.
(ix) Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
(x) Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad.
(xi) Central Hindi Directorate, New Delhi.
(xii) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi.
(xiii) National Book Trust, New Delhi.
(xiv) Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education, Gwalior.
(xv) Commission for Scientific & Technical Terminology, New Delhi.
(xvi) Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta.
(xvii) National Museum, New Delhi.
(xviii) National Gallery of Modem Art, New Delhi.
(xix) National Library, Calcutta.
(xx) National Council of Science Museums, Calcutta.
(xxi) Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
In the field of technical education, there are five Indian Institutes of
Technology, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, fifteen regional Engi-
neering Colleges, three Indian Institutes of Management, four Technical
Teachers' Training Institutes, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, School of
Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, National Institute of Training in
industrial Engineering, Bombay and the National Institute of Foundry and
Forge Technology, Ranchi.
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Functions Important functions of the Department of Education are to evolve
educational policy in all aspects and to coordinate and determine the stand-
ards of higher education and technical education, to administer copyright
act, to improve quality of textbooks, to administer scholarships and other
schemes, to coordinate programmes Of assistance and other activities with
UNESCO, to develop and coordinate research in social sciences, to foster
and encourage studies and research in Sanskrit and other classical languages,
to develop activities in the field of non-formal education and to promote
adult education.
The important functions of the Department of Culture are to administer
libraries and museums of national importance, to promote performing, plastic
and literary arts, to administer scholarships in the field of art and culture
and cultural agreement and foreign treaties with foreign countries. The
Department coordinates matters relating to incoming and outgoing exhibi-
tions like Festival of India in the U.K. and France. The Department has
also been named as nodal agency for National Council of Arts set up recently
under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
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