In the Union Cabinet on Tuesday, Prime Minster Narendra Modi took the decision of shifting Smriti Irani from Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD) to Textile Ministry.Not only this, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar was the first one to take oath in a crucial expansion of PMs Council of ministers and will now hold the portfolio of HRD minister.
As prospected, this move from the government has come after major controversies arose around former HRD minister Smriti Irani from day one, such as Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide in Hyderabad and the JNU row.
Meanwhile, take a look at some of the achievements in the field of education during Smriti Irani's tenure:
* All NCERT school text books from classes 1 to 12 available free online through ePathshala.
* A credit framework to pursue formal education and vocational training through SAMVAY
* All Kendriya Vidyalayas providing SMS to parents about students's attendance and lesson details Benchmarking of student performances in CBSE schools by Saraansh platform
* First time ever, a national institutional rankings framework.
* UDAAN, a mentoring & scholarship program to send our girls to technical institutes.
* IIT fee waivers for economically weaker sections
* Focused interventions to improve reading and writing levels- Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat & many more acheivements she has done for education.
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