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Ministers for Higher Education

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{{Infobox government agency
| agency_name = Department of Higher Education of State of Tamil Nadu
| nativename =
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| formed = {{Start date and age|1997}}
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| jurisdiction = [[Tamil Nadu]]
| headquarters = [[Chennai]]
| employees =
| budget =
| minister1_name = [[K. Ponmudy]]
| minister1_pfo = Minister for Higher Education Department
| chief1_name = '''Apoorva Varma, IAS'''
| chief1_position = Principal Secretary to Government|chief2_name
| chief2_position = Joint Secretary
| parent_agency = [[Government of Tamil Nadu]]
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| website = [http://www.tn.gov.in/department/12 Higher Education Department]
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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<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tn.gov.in/rti/proactive/hedu/handbook-hedu.pdf|publisher=tn.gov.in|title= departments created |accessdate=2012-10-30}}</ref>

== 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.

<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tn.gov.in/rti/proactive/hedu/handbook-hedu.pdf|publisher=tn.gov.in|title= Objective of the Department |accessdate=2012-10-30}}</ref>

== Sub – Departments ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- align="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|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/
|}

<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tn.gov.in/rti/proactive/hedu/handbook-hedu.pdf|publisher=tn.gov.in|title= Sub – Departments under the Higher Education Department|accessdate=2012-10-30}}</ref>

== Undertakings & Bodies ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- align="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|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
|
|}

<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tn.gov.in/rti/proactive/hedu/handbook-hedu.pdf|publisher=tn.gov.in|title= Organisations under the Higher Education Department|accessdate=2012-10-30}}</ref>

== Ministers for Higher Education ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Ministers of Higher Education (Tamilnadu)
|- style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0f0;"
! Name
! Portrait
! colspan="2"|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]]
| [[File:Anbazhagan2006.jpg|75px]]
| 27 January 1989
| 30 January 1991
|-
| [[R. M. Veerappan]]
|
| 24 June 1991
| 12 May 1996
|-
| [[K. Anbazhagan]]
| [[File:Anbazhagan2006.jpg|75px]]
| 13 May 1996
| 13 May 2001
|-
| [[M. Thambidurai]]
| [[File:மு. தம்பிதுரை.jpg|75px]]
| 14 May 2001
| 1 March 2002
|-
| [[C. V. Shanmugam]]
|
| 2 March 2002
| 12 May 2006
|-
| [[K. Ponmudy]]
| [[File:Dr.K.Ponmudi.jpg|75px]]
| 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]]
| [[File:Dr.K.Ponmudi.jpg|75px]]
| 7 May 2021
| Incumbent
|-
|}

== See also ==
* [[Government of Tamil Nadu]]
* [[List of Tamil Nadu Government's Educational Institutions]]
* [[Tamil Nadu Government's Departments]]
* [[Ministry of Human Resource Development (India)]]
* [[Department of Finance (Kerala)]]
* [[Department of Higher Education (India)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021093548/http://www.tn.gov.in/departments/hedu.html www.tn.gov.in/departments/hedu.html (Official Website of the Tamil Nadu Higher Education Department)]
* [http://www.tn.gov.in/rti/proact_hedu.htm http://www.tn.gov.in/rti/proact_hedu.htm ( RTI site of the Tamil Nadu Higher Education Department)]
* [http://www.tn.gov.in Official website of Government of Tamil Nadu]

{{Government Departments of Tamil Nadu}}

[[Category:Tamil Nadu state government departments]]
[[Category:Education in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:1997 establishments in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Subnational education ministries|Tamil Nadu]]

Department of Higher Education (Tamil Nadu) - Revision history

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