ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

                                    
                                   The Ministry of Human Resource Development functions under the overall charge of the Human Resource Development Minister who is assisted by two Ministers of State, one each for the two Departments, namely, the Department of School Education and Literacy and the Department of Higher Education.  Each Department is headed by a Secretary to the Government of India.  The Secretary, Department of Higher Education is assisted by an Additional Secretary, 4 Joint Secretaries, 1 Economic Advisor and 1 Deputy Director General (Statistics).  In addition, there is one Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, common to both of the Departments.  The Departments are organized into   Bureaux, Divisions, Branches, Desks, Sections and Units.  Each Bureau is under the charge of a Joint Secretary assisted by Divisional Heads at the level of Director/Deputy Secretary/Deputy Education Advisors.  At present, work of the Department is divided into eight Bureaux as follows:

University & Higher Education, Minorities Education

Technical Education

Administration and Languages

Distance Education & Scholarships

UNESCO, Int'l Cooperation,  Book Promotion & Copyrights,  Education Policy,  Planning and Monitoring

Integrated Finance Division

Statistics, Annual Plan and CMIS

Administrative Reform, North Eastern Region, SC/ST/OBC

                           Broad Structure of the Department of Higher Education may be seen in the Organogram.

                          The Department of Higher Education carries out substantial part of its work through  more than 100 autonomous organisations, chiefly the following:

University & Higher Education

University Grants Commission (UGC)

Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)

Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)

38 Central Universities (including 15 new Central Universities which have been established w.e.f. 15.01.2009 by an ordinance promulgated by President of India)

Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla

Technical Education

Languages

Three Deemed Universities in the field of Sanskrit, viz. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (RSkS), New Delhi, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (SLBSRSV), New Delhi, and Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (RSV), Tirupati  

English and Foreign Language University (EFLU), Hyderabad

National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL)

National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL)

Three subordinate offices of Central Hindi Directorates (CHD), Commission for Scientific & Technological Terminology (CSTT) and Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL)

Distance Education

Miscellaneous  

                  In addition to the above, the Department also has one Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) as given below:

PSU