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Department of Higher Education (Tamil Nadu)

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Formed
  
1811

Headquarters
  
Chennai

Jurisdiction
  
Tamil Nadu

Department of Higher Education (Tamil Nadu)

Minister responsible
  
K. P. Anbalagan, Minister for Higher Education Department

Agency executives
  
A. Karthik, IAS, Secretary to Government (Full Additional Charge) R. Lily, IAS, Joint Secretary

Parent agency
  
Government of Tamil Nadu

The Department of Higher Education of state of Tamil Nadu is one of the Department of Government of Tamil Nadu

Contents

History

  • The Directorate of Technical Education was established on 14 October 1957
  • The Higher Education Department was formed in 1997, after bifurcation from the Education, Science & Technology Department of Secretariat

    • Objective of the Department

    The basic objective of the Department is to formulate polices, laws, regulations and various programmes based on the needs of the society now and then, for achieving the following goals of the Government in the field of Higher Education in Tamil Nadu:

  • To provide Higher and Technical Education.
  • To provide higher education for the youth from poor families to have an equal opportunity to pursue higher education.
  • To achieve the Higher Education access rate 25% by 2020.
  • To improve the infrastructure facilities in colleges.
  • To improve and enrich the syllabus.
  • To improve the quality of Higher Education and Technical Education
  • To popularize Science and Technology among the people in General and students in particular in Urban and Rural areas in this State.
  • To create Scientific temper among the students and encourage research activities in Science and Technology in this State.

    • Present Ministers for Higher Education

  • K. P. Anbalagan

    • Former Ministers for Higher Education

  • 2011 - 2016
  • P. Palaniappan

    • References

    Department of Higher Education (Tamil Nadu) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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