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. 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 offices 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 (BPU)
- 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 also a national level resource institution, specialising in problems of Educational Management.
- The University Grants Commission (UGC) New Delhi, which coordinates and sets standards in the area of higher education.
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- The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, which coordinates and sets standards in the area of technical education.
- 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.
- The Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (KHS), Agra, which propagates Hindi in India and abroad.
- The Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, engaged in promotion, development 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.
- 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,
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Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow.
* Technical Teacher Training Institutes at Bhopal, Calcutta, Chandigarh and Madras.
* Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) at Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur 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 IIT's have been set up by Acts of Parliament, the other autonomous organisations have been registered under Societies Registration Act.
Functions 3.3.0 Education is a concurrent subject. Concurrency implies a meaningful partnership between the Union Government and the States. The National Policy on Education - 1986 states:
"While the role and responsibility of the States in regard to Education would 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."
The Department has been striving to fulfil the role perceived by the National Policy on Education 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 two officials were concluded and appropriate orders were passed in each case. Besides, it has been decided to initiate disciplinary proceedings against five officials (including three gazetted officers). The disciplinary proceedings against one gazetted officer of a subordinate office and one official of the Department initiated earlier were in progress. Twelve complaints pertaining to this Department (including those against eight gazetted officers) were processed for preliminary
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enquiry
3.4.2 Of the fifty autonomous organisations/public sector undertakings, linked with the Department of Education, 39 have so far accepted the jurisdiction of Central Vigilance Commission and Chief Vigilance Officers are in position in twenty organisations. Eighteen of these organisations have also created public grievance redressel machinery and designated Grievance Officers for redressal 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 at present consists of 84 sections, 10 Subordinate Offices, one Public Sector Undertaking and 74 Autonomous Organisations. During the year under report, the Annual Programme for the Implementation of the Official Language Policy of the Government of India for the year 1990-91 received from the Department of official Language (Ministry of Home Affairs) was circulated in this Department, its Subordinate Offices and Autonomous Organisation with the request that all-out efforts may be made to achieve the targets fixed therein as also for the review of progress regularly in the meetings of the Departmental Official Language Implementation Committees (O.L.I.C). Besides this, the position of compliance with the Official Languages Act and the rules and administrative orders framed thereunder was monitored through Quarterly Progress Reports. These Reports were regularly obtained from Sections, Subordinate Offices, and Autonomous Organisations, reviewed in the Department and deficiencies found were brought to the notice of the officers and Heads of Offices/Organisations concerned for remedial action.
3.5.2 As per the target fixed by the Department of official Language, the required four meetings of the Official Language Implementation Committee were held in the Department of Education. Apart from this, there are O.L.I.Cs in some Divisions also and their meetings held regularly. Officers of the O.L. Unit of the Department also attended the meetings of the OLICs of the Subordinate Offices, Autonomous Organisations etc. and discussed various measures to increase the progressive use of Hindi therein.
3.5.3 One Hindi Workshop was conducted in November, 1990 jointly with the Department of Culture with a view to imparting training to fill-up the Quarterly Progress Reports properly.
3.5.4 Seventy employees were nominated for training in various courses under the Hindi Teaching Scheme of the Department of Official Language, out of which 34 employees were nominated for Hindi Prabodh/Praveen/Pragya courses and 23 LDCs for Hindi Typing and 13 Stenographers for Hindi Stenography.
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3.5.5 To assess the position regarding compliance of Official Language Rules, 5 Offices were inspected and the deficiencies found during the Inspection were brought to the notice of the Heads of the Offices concerned and remedial measures suggested.
3.5.6 The Committee of Parliament on Official Language inspected this Department on 19th June, 1990. During the inspection, apart from discussing various items of the general questionnaire, the various points of the Previous reports of the Committee pertaining to the Department of Education were also discussed. Senior Officers of the Department and Heads of its Offices/Organisations were present during the inspection. The follow-up action was taken on the Inspection Report of the Parliamentary Committee.
3.5.7 Hindi Week was celebrated in the Department from 14th to 20th September, 1990. On this occasion an appeal from Minister of State for Human Resource Development and instructions from Education Secretary were issued urging for greater use of Hindi in official work. Moreover, on this occasion, a Hindi Essay and Hindi Typing competition was also organised in which employees securing First, Second and Third positions were given cash awards of Rs.500/-, Rs.300/- and Rs.200/- respectively. The special feature of the Hindi Essay Competition was that this time only non-Hindi speaking employees participated.
3.5.8 So far as Hindi Salahkar Samiti of the Department is concerned, this Samiti was set up in March, 1989. As a sequal to general elections held in November, 1989, it was partially reconstituted with reference to nomination of M.Ps. Its meeting was held on 20th March, 1991 under the Chairmanship of Minister for Human Resource Development. The important decisions taken in the meeting related to need for carrying out inspections of more Sections of the Department, early introduction of Scheme of Cash Award for original books written in Hindi on subjects relating to Education w.e.f. the financial year 1991-92, need for making greater efforts to achieve the targets fixed for correspondence in Hindi with Regions 'A' and 'Bland sending replies in Hindi to all letters received in Hindi.
3.5.9 During the period under report 67 Offices/Kendriya Vidyalayas wherein more than 80% of the Staff had acquired working knowledge of Hindi, were notified under rule 10(4) of official Languages Rules, 1976.
3.5.10 Thus, the Department continued to make earnest endeavors to increasingly use Hindi in the official work, as per Official Languages Act/Rules.
Publications 3.6.0 The Publication Unit brought out 21 publications in
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English including bilingual (English and Hindi). The unit continued to handle the work of authentication of original educational certificates of Indians going abroad and foreign students studying in India.
3.7.0
Deputations/Delegations of Government Officials and Non-
Officials sent Abroad during the year 1990-91
No. of Delegations/ No. of persons included Foreign Exchange
Deputations in the delegations/ Component
deputations (Estimated in Rs.)
50 126 Rs.10,87,535
3.8.0
Budget Estimates The total budget provision for 1990-91 and 1991-92 in respect of Department of Education are as under:-
Particulars BE 1990-91 RE 1990-91 BE 1991-92
Demand No.47
Department of 171334.00 165162.00 180532.00
Education (Gross) (Gross)
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 Scheme
(Plan) and also provision for loans for
Central and Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
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Professional Development and Training of Staff 3.9.0 The Training Cell that has been charged with the responsibility of co-ordinating/monitoring of various needs/ training programmes for the Professional Development of staff working in the Department of Education, circulated in all, 155 training programmes during the year 1990-91 and nominated 153 officers for various training programmes/courses in India, excluding the IAS Officers who are deputed for compulsory inservice training by the Department of Personnel and Training. Besides, eight officers were deputed for training abroad during the year 1990-91. A Group has also been set up to chalk out the modalities for the professional development and training of staff, keeping in view the requirements/training needs of the Department.
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