Ministry of Education
Ministry within the Government of India
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| June 11 2024 | Subhas Sarkar's term concludes, and Sukanta Majumdar becomes the new Minister of State, with Rajkumar Ranjan Singh and Annpurna Devi also joining the ministry. |
| September 11 2021 | University Grants Commission issued an official list of 56 Central Universities in India, documenting the current higher education institutional landscape. |
| July 8 2021 | Subhas Sarkar begins his term as Minister of State. |
| July 7 2021 | Sanjay Dhotre's term ends. |
| July 7 2021 | Dharmendra Pradhan becomes the latest Minister of Education, taking office on this date. |
| July 29 2020 | Sanjay Dhotre officially becomes Minister of State for Education. |
| July 29 2020 | The Union Council of Ministers passed the new National Education Policy 2020, replacing the National Policy on Education 1986. This policy also led to renaming the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) to the Ministry of Education (MoE). |
| May 31 2019 | Sanjay Dhotre begins his term as Minister of State for Education. |
| May 30 2019 | Satya Pal Singh's term concludes. |
| December 11 2018 | Upendra Kushwaha's term as Minister of State ends. |
| August 2018 | The Ministry of Education established the MoE's Innovation Cell (MIC) at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and startups in higher education institutions across India. Abhay Jere was appointed as the first Chief Innovation Officer of the cell. |
| September 3 2017 | Mahendra Nath Pandey's term concludes, and Satya Pal Singh begins his term as Minister of State. |
| July 5 2016 | Ram Shankar Katheria's term ends, and Mahendra Nath Pandey begins his term as Minister of State. |
| April 2016 | The Ministry published the first list of rankings for Indian colleges under the NIRF, involving multiple educational and research organizations including NBA, AICTE, UGC, Thomson Reuters, Elsevier, and INFLIBNET. |
| September 2015 | Ministry of Human Resource Development launched the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), a comprehensive ranking system for Indian higher education institutions. |
| November 9 2014 | Ram Shankar Katheria and Upendra Kushwaha begin their terms as Ministers of State in the Ministry of Education under Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party. |
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