India’s first Union Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad – Every year since 2008, India has celebrated National Education Day on 11 November to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a man of many talents.
In September 2008, the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India (now known as the Ministry of Education) declared the birth anniversary of Abul Kalam Azad as National Education Day.
On this Education Day, let us know about the educational qualifications of our education ministers.
First Union Education Minister of independent India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, A freedom fighter, an eminent educationist and a journalist was a home-schooled and self-educated man. He mastered several languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Persian and English. An ardent and determined student, Azad was also trained in several subjects such as mathematics, philosophy, world history and science by teachers hired by his family.
India’s first education minister, Azad became active in journalism as a teenager, and in 1912, he began publishing Al-Hilal (The Crescent), a weekly Urdu newspaper in Calcutta. Later on, he founded several institutions such as the illustrious Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi.
India has seen many leaders who have headed the ministry since him. Most recently the current education minister is Dharmendra Pradhan. Here’s a look at the five most recent education ministers and their education qualifications –
Mallipudi Mangapati Pallam Raju was the 27th Union Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD) in the Central Government. He has served during the tenure of the government of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2012.
He completed his schooling at Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet (HPS) in 1979. He then graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1983. In addition, he obtained an MBA degree from Fox. School of Business and Management at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA in 1985.
Smriti Irani was the 28th Education Minister. Irani was a minister for two years and 40 days. Smriti received her early education from Holy Child Auxilium School, New Delhi. Later, he joined the School of Open Learning at the University of Delhi. After controversies over her education in 2019, she revealed that she had written her first year B.Com exam from that institute but had not completed the three-year degree course.
Prakash Javadekar became the 29th Education Minister of India in July 2016. He has completed B.Com (Hons) from Pune University, now known as Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). Javadekar’s wife is also an education researcher. She has been the Director of Indira Institute of Management, Pune. One of his two sons, Apoorva Javaderk, is an assistant professor of finance at the Indian School of Business.
Ramesh Pokhriyal became the 30th Education Minister of the country in 2019. He joined the ministry as HRD Minister and resigned as Education Minister. The name of the ministry was changed during his tenure.
Pokhriyal was born in Pinani village of Uttarakhand and obtained his MA degree from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University. During his tenure as the Minister of Education, the National Policy on Education (NEP) was launched. The policy was being drafted long before his appointment. NEP 2020 and was jointly launched by Pokhriyal, Javadekar and Smriti Irani.
Dharmendra Pradhan along with being the current Education Minister
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. The longest serving Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas in India, Pradhan is also known as the ‘Ujjwala Man’. Pradhan, a native of Talcher, Odisha, holds a master’s degree in Anthropology from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. He is an alumnus of Talcher College, where he began his political journey as the President of the Students’ Union.
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