ORGANISATION
ORGANISATION
Organisational Structure The Department of Education, one of the constituents of Ministry of
Human Resource Development, is under the charge of Minister of State
with overall charge of Minister for Human Resource Development. The
Secretariat of the Department is headed by the Secretary who is assisted
by a Special Secretary, Additional Secretary and Educational Adviser
(Technical). The Department 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
Department is shown in the Organisation chart appended to the report.
Subordinate Offices/Autonomous Over the years, a number of subordinate Offices and Organisations have
Organisations come up under the Department. For co-ordination and determination of
standards in higher education, the University Grants Commission was set
up in 1956 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) Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, New Delhi.
(viii) Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.
(ix) Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
(x) Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra.
(xi) Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hydera-
bad.
(xii) Central Hindi Directorate, New Delhi.
(xiii) Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, New
Delhi.
(xiv) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi.
(xv) National Book Trust, New Delhi.
(xvi) Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
In the field of Technical Education, there are : 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 Architec-
ture, New Delhi; Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad; four
Indian Institutes of Management located at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cal-
cutta and Lucknow, four Technical Teachers' Training Institutes located
at Bhopal, Calcutta, Chandigarh and Madras; five Indian Institutes of
Technology located at Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras and
seventeen Regional Engineering Colleges, spread all over the country.
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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 the quality of text-books; 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
languages; to develop activities in the field of non-formal education; and
to promote adult education.