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 the Minister of State assisted by a Deputy Minister.

Consequent on the creation of a new Department of Sports under the Government of India Allocation of Business (155th Amendment) Rules, 1982, the relevant items of work pertaining to Sports and Youth Welfare activities have been transferred to, that department.

The Secretariat of the Ministry is headed by the Secretary. The Ministry has one Additional Secretary and two Educational, Advisers who work to the Secretary. The Ministry is organised into; Bureaus, Divisions and 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 Administrative Charts 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 the Additional Secretary.

Attached and Subordinate Offices/Autonomous Organisations

The Ministry has two attached offices viz., National Archives of India and the Archaeological Survey of India under the Department of Culture. 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 Parliament legislation. Besides, a number of organisations have been set up to discharge specific responsibilities. Among them is the National Council or Educational Research and Training which strives to promote the qualitative aspects of School Education throughout the country. The other important ones are :-

(i) The National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi;

(ii) Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla;

(iii) Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, New Delhi;

(iv) Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi;

(v) Central Hindi Institute, Agra;

(vi) Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore;

(vii) Central Institute of Hydrabad;

(viii) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi;

(ix) National Book Trust, New Delhi;

(x) Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education, Gwalior.

In the field of Technical Education there are five Indian Institutes of Technology; the Indian Institute of science, Bangalore; fifteen Regional Engineering Colleges; three Indian Institutes of Management; Four Technical Teacher's Training Institutes; Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad; School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; National Institute of Training in Industrial Engineering, Bombay; and National Institute of Foundary and Forge Technology, Ranchi.

The Indian Council of Social Science Research and the Indian Council of Historical Research promote7research in their respective fields.

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Functions

Some of the functions of the Department of Education are to evolve educational policy in all its aspects and to coordinate and determine standards in higher education and technical education, to administer the Copyright Act, to improve the 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 nonformal education and to promote Adult Education.

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