School Education Department, West Bengal

School Education Department, West Bengal is the department of School education including primary and secondary schools in the state of West Bengal, India. This is the main authority to implement the educational policy of the Government of West Bengal.[1]

Activities

The department is the nodal body which look after various aspects of school level educations for the state having specific tasks like text book selection, formation of board and councils (West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education), inspection, recruitment of teachers (Government)/ education staff, execution of projects, language policy and schemes, preparation of teaching, training, research etc. There are also have the regular budgeting, audit programs, recognition, up-gradation of schools and legal matters.[2]

Ministers

At present the Minister-in-Charge of this Department is Mr. Partha Chatterjee.[3][4]

Office

The headquarters of this Department is situated at Bikash Bhawan, Bidhannagar (Salt lake) in Kolkata.

References

  1. ↑ "School Education". wb.gov.in. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Department of School Education, Govt. of West Bengal". wbsed.gov.in. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Somdatta Basu. "Bengali set to be must in all schools from classes I to VIII". timesofindia.com. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ "List of Ministers in Mamata's cabinet". thehindu.com. May 27, 2016. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
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