Directorate of Public Instruction (Schools) – DPI(S)

  Education has continued to evolve, diversify and extend its reach and coverage since the dawn of human history.

India has reached a stage in its economic and technical development when a major effort must be made to ensure that the fruits of change reach all sections. Education is the highway to that goal.

Life in the coming decades is likely to bring new tensions together with unprecedented opportunities. To enable the people to benefit in the new environment will require new designs of human resource development. The coming generations should have the ability to internalize new ideas constantly and creatively. They have to be imbued with a strong commitment to human values and to social justice. All this implies better education.

Under free and Compulsory Education all children in the age group of 6-14 are to be provided free Primary Education. In order to achieve the goal of universalisation of Primary Education efforts are being made to increase retention of children in schools, increase their enrollment, opening of new Primary Schools, provision of infrastructure in the existing Primary Schools, innovative approach in the schools and decentralized Planning, irrespective of School Bias. The object of Free and Compulsory Education is being achieved by mobilizing Community support in the villages where large percentage of illiterate population resides.

The origin of this Directorate can be traced back to the year 1854. Lord Dalhousie, the Governor General of India, during British Rule, established education department I each state on the recommendations of Charles Wood, President, Board of Control.

As the number of institutions increased and the field of education also expanded at all levels, the directorate was bifurcated into the Directorate of Schools and Directorate of Colleges in the year 1976 to make the Department more level specific. To facilitate better and efficient administration of the organization, the directorate was further divided into School Directorate- DPI(S) and PRIMARY DIRECTORATE- DPI(P) in the year 1978. The Directorate deals with the education from sixth year of schooling up to twelfth year of schooling in the state under the State Government through three Circle level and seventeen district level authorities.