Department of Higher Education (Tamil Nadu)

Department of Higher Education of State of Tamil Nadu
Agency overview
Formed	1811
Jurisdiction	Tamil Nadu
Headquarters	Chennai
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
Website	Higher Education Department

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

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[1]

Objective of the Department

The basic objective of the Department is to formulate policies, 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.

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Sub – Departments

Name	Website
The Directorate of Collegiate Education (Department of Collegiate Education)	http://www.tndce.in/
The Directorate of Technical Education (Department of Technical Education)	https://web.archive.org/web/20170804122107/http://www.tndte.com/
Department of Archives and Historical Research	http://www.tnarchives.tn.gov.in/

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Undertakings & Bodies

Name	Website
Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre (TNSTC)	http://tnstc.gov.in/index.html
Science City Chennai	http://www.sciencecitychennai.in/
Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology (TANSCST)	http://tanscst.nic.in/
Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education (TANSCHE)	https://web.archive.org/web/20120910185441/http://www.tnuniv.ac.in/tansche.html
Tamil Nadu State Council for Technical Education (TANSCTE)
Tamil Nadu State Urdu Academy

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Present Minister for Higher Education

K. P. Anbalagan

Former Minister for Higher Education

2011–2016
- P. Palaniappan

References

"departments created" (PDF). tn.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
"Objective of the Department" (PDF). tn.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
"Sub – Departments under the Higher Education Department" (PDF). tn.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
"Organisations under the Higher Education Department" (PDF). tn.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2012.

External links

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[1] "departments created" (PDF). tn.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2012.

[2] "Objective of the Department" (PDF). tn.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2012.

[3] "Sub – Departments under the Higher Education Department" (PDF). tn.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2012.

[4] "Organisations under the Higher Education Department" (PDF). tn.gov.in. Retrieved 30 October 2012.