Education
The state
of Haryana has made tremendous expansion in the field of
higher education since its inception. SCERT Haryana Gurgaon
was established in April 1979. It was the conglomeration of
State Institute of Education and State Institute of Science,
to provide new dimensions to school education. It has been
the endeavor of the government to make educational
facilities available to the poorest of children. 32 primary
schools, 69 middle schools and 101 high schools were
upgraded to middle, high and senior secondary respectively
during the year 2004-05. Now accessibility to schooling is
available within the radius of 1.10 km, 1.38 km, 1.66 km and
2.79 km at the primary, middle, high and senior secondary
levels respectively. During 2001-02, there were 11,013
primary schools, 1,918 middle schools, 3,023 high schools
and 1,301 senior secondary schools in the state. Haryana
Board of School Education, established in September 1969 and
shifted to Bhiwani in 1981, conducts public examinations at
middle, matriculation, and senior secondary levels twice a
year. Over seven lac candidates attend annual examinations
in February and March, and 150,000 attend supplementary
examinations each November. The Board also conducts
examinations for Haryana Open School at senior and senior
secondary levels twice a year.The Haryana government
provides free education to women up to the Bachelor's Degree
level.
Leading
institutes for Technical and Engineering Education in
Haryana are NIT Kurukshetra,Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University
Of Science and Technology, YMCA Institute of Engineering.
Earlier NIT Kurukshetra was famous by the name Regional
Engineering College, Kurukshetra. There are six universities
in the state. Technical education and management studies are
provided by Maharishi Dayanand University at Rohtak have a
University Institute Of Engineering & Technology, University
Campus named as U.I.E.T., ROHTAK, Kurukshetra University at
Kurukshetra, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science &
Technology at Hisar and Chaudhary Devi Lal University at
Sirsa. Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural
University at Hisar is one of the biggest agricultural
universities in Asia. It is engaged in education, research
and development related to agriculture. The Holy Land where
the University stands was first transformed into a centre of
learning in 1936 by Bhagat Phool Singh Ji when he started a
Gurukul for girls. The Gurukul was opened after he opened a
boys Gurukul in 1919 in Bhainswal Kalan which today is the
South Campus of the University. The Gurukul, started with
only three students grew in size, stature and reputation
with time and in November 2006, the Haryana Legislative
Assembly passed a Legislative Notification, vide no. 31/2006
making the Gurukul a full-fledged State University.
The
National Dairy Research Institute at Karnal provides
education in the field of dairy science. It has been
upgraded to the level of a Deemed University. There are
medical colleges in Rohtak, Mullana and Agroha. Pt. B.D.
Sharma PGIMS Rohtak is a premier post-graduate medical
institute in North India offering courses in major
specialties and super specialties of medicine. There is also
the Management Development Institute in Gurgaon, which is
amongst the premier management institutes of India. The
Institute named The Technological Institute of Textile and
science's come into existence in 1947, A very well named
college in Haryana in the field of Textiles.