Education is a very powerful and effective medium. It is a universally accepted principle that everyone should be well educated and strive to do welfare of the people. Education is the cornerstone of intellectual prosperity and national self-reliance.

Till the year 1972, the education of primary, secondary, higher and training level was operational under the Director of Education. With increasing work in education and with the aim of efficient operation of schools and new experiments to make the programs more dynamic and effective, it was decided to bifurcate the Directorate of Education into three sections in the year 1972, under which the Director of Education (Basic), Director of Education (Secondary) and Director of Education (Higher) posts were created. In 1975, Basic and Secondary Education were integrated, while the Higher Education Department continued separately. In the year 1985, to make Basic Education more effective and dynamic, a separate Directorate of Basic Education was established.

Separate directorates to make research programs more dynamic and effective have been set up in the state along with directorates such as primary education, Urdu and oriental languages, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Literacy and Alternative Education, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Mid-Day Meal Authority.