Department of School Education (West Bengal)

Department of School and Higher Education
Department overview
Jurisdiction	Government of West Bengal
Headquarters	Bikash Bhavan, 5th Floor, Salt Lake, Kolkata -700091
Annual budget	₹32,493 crore (US$4.1 billion)
Ministers responsible	Sri Bratya Basu, Minister in Charge; Sri Satyajit Barman, Minister of State for School Education;
Department executive	Manish Jain, I.A.S, Secretary, Principal Secretary;
Website	wbsed.gov.in

Department of School and Higher Education 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.^[2]

Activities[edit]

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.^[3]