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Ministry of Human Resource Development

Equity in education

One of the key parameters of equity in our higher education institutions rests on the twin objectives of ensuring access to institutions by the socially backward sections through reservation of seats and then to augment that inclusion by offering scholarships under various categories to partly buffer the cost of education entailed due to payment of fees, transportation costs, etc.

KVS an autonomous body, nothing to do with morning prayers in KV: HRD Ministry

Admitting that the Union HRD Minister was Chairman of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) and it functioned under its aegis, the Ministry has said that it has nothing to do with the contentious practice of mandatory recitation of Sanskrit 'shlokas' and Hindi prayers based on Hindu religion in the morning prayers.