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Education Minister of India 2023 | Objectives of Education Ministry

The Education Minister of India for the year 2023 is Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan. Formerly the Ministry of Education was called the Ministry of  Human Resource Development.

The National Education Policy has two departments

  • Department for School Education and Literacy.
  • Department for Higher Education.

Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan is a popular politician who works under the Indian Government and serves as a Minister of Education and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan has also worked as a Minister of steel and Minister of Natural and petroleum gases. He was also appointed as a cabinet minister in 2017. He was also elected to Rajya Sabha twice, once for Bihar and Once for Madhya Pradesh . The first Education Minister of Independent India was Abul Kalam Azad who used to serve as a senior leader in the Indian National Congress.

Objectives of Education Ministry
 

  • The main aim of the Education ministry is to develop and prepare Education policy and programs.
  • It also provides special facilities to backward people, the poor, females, and minority people.
  • It also offers financial aid to poor students and provides them with various facilities such as loans, scholarships, subsidies, etc
  • They also collaborate with international bodies, institutes, and universities which helps in growing academics
  • They also work to improve the education sector and reach the poor-class village to enhance India"s educational possibilities.

Over the decades more than 30 education Minister has taken responsibility.

The names are
 

Education MinistersPeriod
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad15th August 1947 to 22nd January 1958
Dr. K.L. Shrimali22nd January 1958 to 31st August 1963
Shri Humayun Kabir1st September 1963 to 21st November 1963
Shri M.C. Chagla21st November 1963 to 13th November 1966
Shri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed14th November 1966 to 13th March 1967
Dr. Triguna Sen16th March 1967 to 14th February 1969
Dr. V.K.R.V Rao14th February 1969 to 18th March 1971
Shri. Siddharta Shankar Roy18th March 1971 to 20th March 1972
S.Nurul Hasan24th March 1972 to 24th March 1977
Pratap Chandra Chunder26th March 1977 to 28th July 1979
Dr. Karan Singh30th July 1979 to 14th January 1980
Shri B. Shankaranand14th January 1980 to 17th October 1980
Shri S.B.Chavan17th October 1980 to 8th August 1981
Smt. Sheila Kaul10th August 1981 to 31st December 1984
Shri K.C.Pant31st December 1984 to 25th September 1985
Shri P.V Narasimha Rao25th September 1985 to 25th June 1988
Shri. P. Shiv Shankar25th June 1988 to 2nd December 1989
Shri. V.P. Singh2nd December 1989 to 10th November 1990
Shri. Rajmangal Pandey21st November 1990 to 21st June 1991
Shri Arjun Singh23rd June 1991 to 24th December 1994 and 22nd May 2004 to 22nd May 2009
Shri Madhavrao Scindia10th February 1995 to 17th January 1996
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee16th May 1996 to 1st June 1996
Shri S.R. Bommai5th June 1996 to 19th March 1998
Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi19th March 1998 to 21st May 2004
Shri Kapil Sibal22nd May 2009 to 28th October 2012
Shri. M.M. Pallam Raju29t October 2012 to 25th May 2014
Smt. Smriti Irani26th May 2014 to 5th July 2016
Shri Prakash Javadekar5th July 2016 to 31st May 2019
Ramesh Pokhriyal31st May 2019 to 21st June 2021
Dharmendra Pradhan21st June 2021 to current
  



 

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