Hon. Chitra Lekha Yadav Ministry for Education\
Mr. Bishwa Prakash Pandit Secretary for Education
The Ministry of Education (MoE) was
established in 1951, was renamed as the Ministry of Education and Sports
(MoES) in 2002. It was again renamed as Ministry of Education with the
decision of Cabinet in 15 Bhadra 2065 BS. The MoE as the apex body of
all educational organizations is responsible for overall development of
education in the country. This Ministry is responsible for formulating
educational policies and plans and managing and implementing them across
the country through the institutions under it.
The Central Level Agencies (CLAs) under
the Ministry are responsible for designing and implementing of
programmes and monitoring them. Five Regional Education Directorates
(REDs) are responsible for monitoring the programmes undertaken by the
district level organizations. Seventy-five District Education Offices
(DEOs) and One Thousand Ninety-one Resource Centres (RCs) at local level
are mainly the implementing agencies of the educational policies, plans
and programmes. Moreover, all the functional units of the MoE and other
constituent and autonomous bodies within the framework of the Ministry
are parts of the organizational structure geared for achieving its goals
and carry out its functions.
