President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday gave nod to the change in name of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as Ministry of Education, an official notification said.
The name change was among the key recommendations of the draft new National Education Policy (NEP), which was also cleared by the Union Cabinet last month.
The heading Ministry of Human Resources Development stands substituted to Ministry of Education, the notification said.
The Ministry of Education was renamed as the HRD ministry in 1985 during the tenure of then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The NEP was introduced the next year and it was later amended in 1992.
A panel headed by former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan, tasked with working on the new NEP, had first proposed that the name of the ministry should be changed again.