Ministry of HRD officially renamed as Ministry of Education

Recently, President of India Ram Nath Kovind has given assent to the change in name of the Ministry of Human Resource Development as Ministry of Education.

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The name change was among the key recommendations of the draft new National Education Policy, NEP which was cleared by the Union Cabinet last month.

In 1985, the Ministry of Education was renamed as the HRD ministry when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister. P V Narasimha Rao was appointed the first HRD minister by PM Rajiv Gandhi.

In 2018, the idea to change the name of HRD Ministry was also proposed by 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.