The name change was among the key recommendations of the draft new National Education Policy (NEP), which was also cleared by the Union Cabinet last month
Current Affairs : President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday offered consent to the adjustment in name of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as Ministry of Education, an official notice said.
The name change was among the key proposals of the draft new National Education Policy (NEP), which was additionally cleared by the Union Cabinet a month ago.
A newspaper notice distributed on Monday night said the President had given his gesture to changing the name of HRD service to Ministry of Education.
The heading Ministry of Human Resources Development stands subbed to Ministry of Education, it said.
The Ministry of Education was renamed as the HRD service in 1985 during the residency of then leader Rajiv Gandhi. The NEP was presented the following year and it was later altered in 1992.
P V Narasimha Rao turned into the first HRD serve in the Rajiv Gandhi bureau.
A board headed by previous ISRO executive K Kasturirangan, entrusted with taking a shot at the new NEP, had first suggested that the name of the service ought to be changed once more.
In 2018, the thought was additionally mooted by Ram Bahadur Rai, executive of the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts and furthermore director of the joint sorting out panel of the Conference on Academic Leadership on Education for Resurgence.
Aditi Mehta 