Ministry of Education (Vishwamitra)
शिक्षा मंत्रालय | |
Central overview | |
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Formed | 15 April 2007 (MoEd) 6 August 2017 (MoHRD) |
Dissolved | 12 August 2023 |
Superseding agency | |
Jurisdiction | Vishwamitra |
Headquarters | Rajagriha |
The Ministry of Education, formerly known as the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Hindi: शिक्षा मंत्रालय) is a former ministry and now a department in the government of Vishwamitra which dealt with the direction, formulation and implementation of policies related to education, literacy, skill development and promotion of literature in the nation. The ministry was merged with Ministry of Culture, Environment and Natural Resources, and Information and Broadcasting to form the Ministry of National Development on 12 August 2023.
The Ministry of Education was headed by the Minister of Education who was a cabinet rank minister and was occassionally assisted by a junior minister or the Minister of State for Education. The first minister was Tanishkaa Patranabish who served between 2007 and 2009, while the final office-holder was Arsal Abbas Mirza who served between 2022 and 2023.
In August 2023, the Ministry of Education was merged with few other ministries to form the Ministry of National Development and became the Department of Education under the ministry.
History
The Ministry of Education was one of the original ministries created and traces its origin to 2007. The ministry was created alongside the Ministries of finance, parliamentary affairs, and sports by the first prime minister Arnisha Phatowali on 15 April 2007.
However, on 2 October 2015, in a resolution initiated by the cabinet of then prime minister Tanishkaa Patranabish, the ministry was abolished due to lack of its basic functionality and was replaced by the Ministry of Culture. On 6 August 2017, under prime minister Patranabish's leadership, the ministry was re-established as the Ministry of Human Resource Development as a bulk portfolio, created as a result of the merger of the ministries of Culture, Information and Broadcasting, Sports and Youth Affairs, Skill Development. The major motive of the creation of the bulk portfolio was to accomodate former vice president and acting president Bishnu Chetry who was earlier appointed as a cabinet minister in the union council of ministers and with all major portfolios being assigned on other senior ministries, the need to make special arrangements arose. However, within a month of the creation of the ministry, three of its departments which were formerly independent ministries were bifurcated and once again became independent. Those included viz., Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs.
During the period between June 2020 and January 2021, the ministry became a department under the Ministry of Human Resource, Culture and Youth Affairs. In January 2021, the Ministry of Human Resource Development was renamed back to its original name as Ministry of Education. Between March and May 2022, the ministry was briefly merged with two other ministries to form the Ministry of Education, Culture and Youth.
On 10 June 2022, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation was merged with the Ministry of Education and became two independent departments in the ministry as, the Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Innovation.
The ministry was merged with Ministry of Culture, Environment and Natural Resources, and Information and Broadcasting to form the Ministry of National Development on 12 August 2023.
Departments
The Ministry of Education had the following departments which were created by the Gazette Notification issued on 10 June 2022.
- Department of Educational Services
- Department of Literacy
- Department of Skill Development and Training
- Department of Human Resource Development
- Department of Science and Technology
- Department of Innovation
Cabinet Ministers
- Key
- MoS, I/C – Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
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From | To | Period | ||||||
Minister of Education | ||||||||
File:Tanishkaa Patranabish (2010-2018).jpg | Tanishkaa Patranabish (born 2004) Representative |
15 April 2007 |
31 December 2009 |
2 years, 260 days | Independent | Arnisha | Arnisha Phatowali | |
Asmi Patranabis (born 2007) |
1 January 2010 |
22 May 2012 |
4 years, 140 days | Varuna I | Varuna Sriraya | |||
22 May 2012 |
21 May 2014 |
Varuna II | ||||||
File:Birthday Portrait of Rashtradhyaksh Varuna Sriraya (cropped).jpg | Varuna Sriraya (born 2002) |
21 May 2014 |
22 February 2015 |
1 year, 134 days | Sarala I | Sarala Baishya | ||
Self | ||||||||
22 February 2015 |
2 October 2015 |
Tanishkaa I | Tanishkaa Patranabish | |||||
The Ministry of Education was abolished on 2 October 2015 and re-established as the Ministry of Human Resource Development on 6 August 2017. | ||||||||
Minister of Human Resource Development | ||||||||
Bishnu Chetry (born 2001) |
6 August 2017 |
25 December 2017 |
280 days | Secular Party | Tanishkaa II | Tanishkaa Patranabish | ||
25 December 2017 |
21 March 2018 |
Congress | Varuna V | Varuna Sriraya | ||||
21 March 2018 |
13 May 2018 |
Varuna VI | ||||||
Bhargab Jyoti Medhi (born 2001) |
13 May 2018 |
11 September 2018 |
152 days | Tanishkaa III | Tanishkaa Patranabish | |||
11 September 2018 |
12 October 2018 |
Varuna Sriraya | ||||||
Asmi Patranabis (born 2007) |
2 October 2018 |
6 January 2019 |
156 days | Secular Party | Varuna VII | Varuna Sriraya | ||
7 January 2019 |
17 March 2019 |
Tanishkaa IV | Tanishkaa Patranabish | |||||
Bhargab Jyoti Medhi (born 2001) |
17 March 2019 |
16 July 2019 |
121 days | Congress | Tanishkaa V | |||
File:Official Portrait of Tanishkaa Patranabish (October 2018).jpg | Tanishkaa Patranabish (born 2004) (Prime Minister) |
16 July 2019 |
6 August 2019 |
21 days | ||||
Bhargab Jyoti Medhi (born 2001) |
6 August 2019 |
17 August 2019 |
11 days | |||||
Ankurjyoti Thakuria (born 2002) |
17 August 2019 |
2 September 2019 |
16 days | |||||
File:Arnab Deka in 2017.jpg | Arnab Deka (born 2002) |
2 September 2019 |
15 October 2019 |
43 days | ||||
Mohammad Mridul Amin (born 2003) |
15 October 2019 |
9 December 2019 |
55 days | |||||
Rajdeep Deka (born 2002) |
9 December 2019 |
12 December 2019 |
3 days | |||||
Nishwan Baidantic (born 2001) |
12 December 2019 |
3 March 2020 |
82 days | |||||
Sampriti Paul (born 2004) |
3 March 2020 |
22 March 2020 |
16 days | Congress | Anoushkaa I | Anoushkaa Patranabish | ||
Nishwan Baidantic (born 2001) MP for Dhirenpara |
22 March 2020 |
30 April 2020 |
8 days | Tanishkaa VI | Tanishkaa Patranabish | |||
Position vacant between 1 May and 13 May 2020. | ||||||||
Sampriti Paul (born 2004) MP for Kahilipara |
13 May 2020 |
8 June 2020 |
26 days | Congress | Tanishkaa VII | Tanishkaa Patranabish | ||
File:Reshmi Hazarika.jpg | Reshmi Hazarika (born 2003) Unelected |
9 June 2020 |
17 June 2020 |
8 days | Anoushkaa II | Princess Anoushkaa | ||
Coordinating Minister of Human Resource, Culture and Youth Affairs | ||||||||
Rajdeep Deka (born 2002) MP for Adarsha Central |
17 June 2020 |
28 January 2021 |
225 days | Congress | Anoushkaa II | Princess Anoushkaa | ||
Minister of Education | ||||||||
Thomas Bainbridge (born 1994) Unelected |
28 January 2021 |
1 March 2021 |
32 days | Royalist Party | Ștefan I | Ștefan Marius Snagoveanu | ||
Daniel Lee (born 2006) MP for Dadara |
6 March 2021 |
6 August 2021 |
153 days | Congress | Ștefan II | |||
File:Portrait of Farhaz Hazarika (November 2021).jpg | Farhaz Hazarika (born 2003) MP for Basistha City |
6 August 2021 |
11 September 2021 |
36 days | ||||
Matthew Xia (born 2006) MP for Chandril (MoS, I/C) |
11 September 2021 |
21 October 2021 |
40 days | Farhaz I | Farhaz Hazarika | |||
Matthew Griffin (born 2003) Unelected |
21 October 2021 |
22 November 2021 |
32 days | Independent | Phillip | Phillip Joseph Pillin | ||
Tyler Mullins (born 1997) MP for Bhetapara (MoS, I/C until 9 February 2022) |
22 November 2021 |
17 February 2022 |
87 days | Congress | Farhaz II | Farhaz Hazarika | ||
Rory Leonard (born 2007) MP for Kalapani |
17 February 2022 |
17 March 2022 |
28 days | |||||
Minister of Human Resource, Culture, and Youth | ||||||||
Matthew Tonna (born 2005) MP for National List |
17 March 2022 |
12 May 2022 |
66 days | Congress | Farhaz II | Farhaz Hazarika | ||
Minister of Education | ||||||||
Charles Burgardt (born 2002) MP for Maligaon |
12 May 2022 |
30 July 2022 |
79 days | Independent | Farhaz III | Farhaz Hazarika | ||
Arsal Abbas Mirza (born 2006) MP for Dadara (from November 2022) (MoS, I/C until 11 November 2022) |
31 July 2022 |
11 November 2022 |
1 year, 12 days | |||||
12 November 2022 |
12 August 2023 |
Farhaz IV | ||||||
Ministry abolished on 12 August 2023. |
Ministers of State
Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | Cabinet Minister | ||||
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From | To | Period | ||||||||
Ministers of State for Human Resource Development (6 August 2017 – 3 March 2020) | ||||||||||
File:Manoj Chetry.PNG | Manoj Chetry मनोज छेत्री (born 2005) |
6 August 2017 |
8 September 2017 |
33 days | Independent Party | Tanishkaa II | Tanishkaa Patranabish | Bishnu Chetry | ||
File:Portrait of Princess Bishakha (2022).jpg | Bishakha Das बिशाखा दास (born 2013) | |||||||||
Mohammad Mridul Amin मोहम्मद मृदुल अमीन (born 2003) * |
8 September 2017 |
25 December 2017 |
108 days | |||||||
Abhisekh Jha अभिषेक झा (born 2004) |
8 September 2017 |
25 December 2017 |
194 days | |||||||
25 December 2017 |
21 March 2018 |
Varuna V | Varuna Sriraya | |||||||
Arpan Deka अर्पण डेका (born 2008) |
21 March 2018 |
13 May 2018 |
53 days | Secular Party | Varuna VI | |||||
Position vacant (14 May – 14 January 2019) | ||||||||||
Pranjit Kalita प्रांजीत कलिता (born 2005) |
14 January 2019 |
13 March 2019 |
58 days | Congress | Tanishkaa IV | Tanishkaa Patranabish | Asmi Patranabis | |||
Position vacant (13 March – 17 March 2019) | ||||||||||
Mohammad Mridul Amin मोहम्मद मृदुल अमीन (born 2003) * |
17 March 2019 |
3 June 2019 |
78 days | Congress | Tanishkaa V | Tanishkaa Patranabish | Bhargab Jyoti Medhi | |||
Tusharjit Deka तुषारजीत डेका (born 2006) |
3 June 2019 |
29 September 2019 |
118 days | |||||||
Tanishkaa Patranabish (Prime Minister) | ||||||||||
Bhargab Jyoti Medhi | ||||||||||
Ankurjyoti Thakuria | ||||||||||
Arnab Deka | ||||||||||
Chandan Das चंदन दास (born 2005) |
29 September 2019 |
24 November 2019 |
56 days | |||||||
Mohammad Mridul Amin | ||||||||||
Position vacant (24 November – 26 November 2019) | ||||||||||
Harlong Terang हार्लोंग तेरांग (born 2006) |
26 November 2019 |
9 December 2019 |
13 days | Congress | Tanishkaa V | Tanishkaa Patranabish | Mohammad Mridul Amin | |||
Pranjit Kalita प्रांजीत कलिता (born 2005) |
9 December 2019 |
3 January 2020 |
25 days | Rajdeep Deka | ||||||
Nishwan Baidantic | ||||||||||
Harlong Terang हार्लोंग तेरांग (born 2006) |
3 January 2020 |
2 February 2020 |
30 days | |||||||
Mayuri Kalita मयूरी कलिता (born 2006) |
2 February 2020 |
3 March 2020 |
30 days | |||||||
Ministers of State for Education (3 March – 17 June 2020) | ||||||||||
Position vacant (3 March – 22 March 2020) | ||||||||||
Chandan Das चंदन दास (born 2005) |
22 March 2020 |
30 April 2020 |
39 days | Congress | Tanishkaa VI | Tanishkaa Patranabish | Nishwan Baidantic | |||
Position vacant (1 May – 13 May 2020) | ||||||||||
Kushal Saha कुशल साहा (born 2008) |
13 May 2020 |
7 June 2020 |
25 days | Congress | Tanishkaa VII | Tanishkaa Patranabish | Sampriti Paul | |||
Harlong Terang हार्लोंग तेरांग (born 2006) |
8 June 2020 |
17 June 2020 |
9 days | Congress | Anoushkaa II | Anoushkaa II | Reshmi Hazarika | |||
Ministers of State for Education (28 January 2021 – present) | ||||||||||
Position vacant (28 January 2021 – 12 May 2022) | ||||||||||
Rey Jr. Mancio, 1st Baron Mancio of Cebu रे जूनियर मन्सियो (born 2007) |
12 May 2022 |
1 July 2022 |
50 days | Independent | Farhaz III | Farhaz Hazarika | Charles Burgardt | |||
Kevin Doan, 1st Baron Doan केविन डोन (born 2005) |
1 July 2022 |
30 July 2022 |
29 days | |||||||
Minister of State (Independent Charge) was responsible (31 July – 11 November 2022) | ||||||||||
Christian Laudani क्रिश्चियन लौडानी (born 2008) |
12 November 2022 |
18 March 2023 |
126 days | Congress | Farhaz IV | Farhaz Hazarika | Arsal Abbas Mirza | |||
Position vacant (18 March 2023 – present) |