Tag: Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education is set to introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the school curriculum for all students from Class 3 onwards from the 2026-27 academic session. The move aims to prepare India’s future workforce for a technology-driven economy.School Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar said the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is developing a framework to integrate AI across grades. “The challenge will be to reach out to over one crore teachers across the country and orient them in imparting AI-related education. We need to move fast so that students and teachers are properly aligned with this technology over the ... Read more

On September 23, 2025, Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025, a nationwide initiative to promote innovation, creativity, and problem-solving among school students.The event, organised by the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education, in collaboration with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), is expected to engage more than one crore students from 1.5 lakh schools across India.During the launch, Dharmendra Pradhan unveiled the Buildathon logo and jingle, saying, “The initiative would celebrate student innovations, engineer an innovation renaissance in the country, and ensure ... Read more

On September 23, 2025, Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025, a nationwide initiative to promote innovation, creativity, and problem-solving among school students. The event, organised by the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education, in collaboration with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), is expected to engage more than one crore students from 1.5 lakh schools across India.During the launch, Pradhan unveiled the Buildathon logo and jingle and said, “The initiative would celebrate student innovations, engineer an innovation renaissance in the country, and ensure ... Read more

National Teachers’ Award 2025: The Ministry of Education’s Department of School Education and Literacy on Tuesday announced the names of 45 teachers from different schools across India who will be felicitated by President Droupadi Murmu with the National Teachers’ Award 2025. The 45 school teachers will receive their awards on Teachers’ Day, which falls on September 5. “The 45 selected teachers are from 27 States, 7 UTs and 6 Organizations. Out of 45 selected teachers, 24 are males, 21 are female,” the Ministry of Education said in a statement. The selection procedure for National Award to Teachers (NAT)-2025 involves two-step ... Read more

NEW DELHI: Enrolment in government schools across the country in 2023-24 dipped by 87.14 lakh as compared to the previous academic year, Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. The Minister added that there was no need to read too much into the drop in figures as there has been a complete change in the manner of collection of data from 2022-23, making comparison of data from previous years ‘statistically different/inchoate’.Replying to a question from MPs Sougata Ray and Kishori Lal regarding ‘Drop In enrolment in government schools, Pradhan also highlighted the schemes initiated to ... Read more

NEW DELHI: Only 55 per cent of Class 3 students can arrange numbers up to 99 in ascending or descending order while only 53 per cent of them in Class 6 know tables up to 10, a Ministry of Education (MoE) survey has found. The Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH) Rashtriya Sarvekshan, formerly known as the National Achievement Survey (NAS), was conducted on December 4 last year, covering 21,15,022 students from both government and private schools in Grades 3, 6 and 9 across 74,229 schools in 781 districts, spanning 36 states and Union Territories ... Read more

Why are more girls now excelling in class 12 Science? In classrooms across India, a quiet revolution is taking shape—one that’s measured not in protests or policy shifts, but in chemistry equations solved and physics papers passed. While their overall success remains steady year-on-year, what’s truly noteworthy is where their success is now coming from. Well, class 12 girls are making stronger inroads into the science stream year after year—and the numbers say it all. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Education, 28.13 lakh girls cleared class 12 with science in 2024, up from 25.58 lakh in ... Read more

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Education has recommended seven states to adopt a common board for classes 10 and 12 after an analysis by the School Education Department flagged that these states accounted for 66 per cent of student failures last year, officials said. The seven states are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Manipur, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal. There are a total of 66 school examination boards in the country, including three national-level boards and 63 state-level boards (54 regular and 12 open boards), While the top 33 boards cover 97 per cent of students, the remaining 33 boards cover ... Read more

NEW DELHI: Chandigarh has emerged as the top performer in the Education Ministry’s Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2023-24, even as 12 states and UTs — including Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Bihar — saw a dip in school education performance from the previous year.The sharpest improvement was seen in Delhi (623.7), which jumped 44 points from the previous year (2022-23), followed by Himachal Pradesh and Haryana with a 41-point gain each, as per the PGI released on Wednesday.Chandigarh is the best performer, scoring 703 (as compared to 687.8 in 2022-2023) and becoming the only state or UT to ... Read more

The Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) has officially opened the registration process for the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test (JNVST) for Class 6 admissions for the academic session 2026-27. Eligible students can apply online until July 29, 2025, through the official websites: navodaya.gov.in or cbseitms.rcil.gov.in. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) are a network of central schools established to provide quality education to talented children predominantly from rural areas in India. These schools are fully residential and co-educational, offering free education from Class 6 to 12. They are affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and are run by the Navodaya ... Read more