Ministry of Education (Vishwamitra)
| मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्रालय | |
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| Formed | 15 April 2007 (as Ministry of Education) 6 August 2017 (as Ministry of HRD) |
| Jurisdiction |  Vishwamitra |
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The Ministry of Human Resource Development is a ministerial level agency of the State of Vishwamitra responsible for direction, formulation and implementation of policies related to education, literacy, skill development and promotion of literature.
The Ministry was initially established as the Ministry of Education on 15 April 2007 but was abolished on 2 October 2015 and was replaced by the Ministry of Culture.
The Ministry was re-established as Ministry of Human Resource Development by letters patent issued on 06th August 2017, by then President Dhrubajyoti Roy on the advice of the Prime Minister Tanishkaa Patranabish in order to accomodate former Vice-President Bishnu Chetry into the Council of Ministers. The Ministry was created by merging the Ministries of Culture, Information and Broadcasting, Skill Development into one. However, the Ministries of Culture & Information and Broadcasting were separated out soon. On 3 March 2020, the Ministry was renamed back as the Ministry of Education, but was again re-named to it's present form on 17 June 2020.
The Ministry is headed by a Cabinet Minister and is assisted by a Minister of State, who serves as a junior minister in the Ministry. The current Minister for Human Resource Development is Rajdeep Deka, who concurrently serves as the Minister of Culture and Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs.
List of Ministers
| № | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Head of Government | ||||||||||||||
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| Ministers of Education (15 April 2007 - 02 October 2020) | |||||||||||||||||||
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31 December 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Asmi Patranabis | 
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1 January 2020 | 21 May 2014 | Dhrubajyoti Roy | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Dhrubajyoti Roy | 
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21 May 2014 | 2 October 2015 | Sarala Baishya | ||||||||||||||
| Ministry abolished | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ministers of Human Resource Development (6 August 2017 - Present) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Bishnu Chetry | 
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6 August 2017 | 13 May 2018 | Friends Society Secular Party | Tanishkaa Patranabish | |||||||||||||
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| 2 | Bhargab Jyoti Medhi | 
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13 May 2018 | 12 October 2018 | Tanishkaa Patranabish | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Asmi Patranabis |
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12 October 2018 | 19 March 2019 | Friends Society Secular Party | Dhrubajyoti Roy | |||||||||||||
| Tanishkaa Patranabish | |||||||||||||||||||
| (2) | Bhargab Jyoti Medhi |
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19 March 2019 | 16 July 2019 | Friends Societal Congress | Tanishkaa Patranabish | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Tanishkaa Patranabish Prime Minister |
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16 July 2019 | 6 August 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Bhargab Jyoti Medhi |
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6 August 2019 | 17 August 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Ankurjyoti Thakuria | 
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17 August 2019 | 2 September 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Arnab Deka | 
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2 September 2019 | 15 October 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Mridul Amin | 
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15 October 2019 | 9 December 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Rajdeep Deka |
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9 December 2019 | 12 December 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Nishwan Baidantic |
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12 December 2019 | 3 March 2020 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Sampriti Paul |
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3 March 2019 | 19 March 2019 | National People's Congress | Anoushkaa Patranabish | |||||||||||||
| (9) | Nishwan Baidantic |
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22 March 2020 | 30 April 2020 | Tanishkaa Patranabish | ||||||||||||||
| (10) | Sampriti Paul |
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13 May 2020 | 8 June 2020 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Reshmi Hazarika |
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9 June 2020 | 17 June 2020 | Anoushkaa Patranabish | ||||||||||||||
| (8) | Rajdeep Deka |
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17 June 2020 | 28 January 2021 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Thomas Bainbridge | 
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28 January 2021 | Incumbent | Royalist Party of Vishwamitra | Gheorghe Stefan Marius | |||||||||||||
