Department of Higher Education (Tamil Nadu)

Department of Higher Education of State of Tamil Nadu
Agency overview
Formed	1997; 25 years ago
Jurisdiction	Tamil Nadu
Headquarters	Chennai
Minister responsible	K. Ponmudy, Minister for Higher Education Department;
Agency executive	Apoorva Varma, IAS, Principal Secretary to Government; Joint Secretary;
Parent agency	Government of Tamil Nadu
Website	Higher Education Department

The Department of Higher Education of the state of Tamil Nadu is one of the Department of the 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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Ministers for Higher Education[]

Ministers of Higher Education (Tamilnadu)
Name	Term of office
C. Aranganayagam	30 June 1977	17 February 1980
C. Aranganayagam	9 June 1980	9 February 1985
C. Ponnaiyan	10 February 1985	30 January 1988
K. Anbazhagan	27 January 1989	30 January 1991
R. M. Veerappan	24 June 1991	12 May 1996
K. Anbazhagan	13 May 1996	13 May 2001
M. Thambidurai	14 May 2001	1 March 2002
C. V. Shanmugam	2 March 2002	12 May 2006
K. Ponmudy	13 May 2006	15 May 2011
P. Palaniappan	16 May 2011	22 May 2016
K. P. Anbalagan	23 May 2016	6 May 2021
K. Ponmudy	7 May 2021	Incumbent

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[]

[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.

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