The change of name was among the key recommendations of the draft new National Education Policy (NEP), which was also cleared by the Union Cabinet last month.
President Ram Nath Kovind on August 17 gave a positive nod to the change in the name of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as the Ministry of Education. Confirming the same, an official notification is also released. The Union Cabinet on July 29 approved the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), five years after the first committee to draft it was constituted. The change of name was among the key recommendations of the draft new National Education Policy (NEP), which was also cleared by the Union Cabinet last month.
A gazette notification published on August 17 states that the President had given his nod to changing the name of HRD ministry to the ministry of education. The heading ministry of human resources development stands substituted to the ministry of education, it said.
The ministry of education was renamed as the HRD ministry in 1985 during the tenure of then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The NEP was introduced the next year and it was later amended in 1992. In the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet, P V Narasimha Rao became the first HRD minister. A panel headed by former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan, tasked with working on the new NEP, first proposed that the name of the ministry should be changed again.
In 2018, Ram Bahadur Rai, chairman of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and also chairman of the joint organising committee of the Conference on Academic Leadership on Education for Resurgence also mooted the idea of the name change. Now, the HRD minister is officially the Ministry of Education.
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