Answer» Correct Answer - Option 1 : Abul Kalam Azad
The correct answer is Abul Kalam Azad. - The first Education Minister of Independent India was Abul Kalam Azad.
- India's first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad is popularly known as Maulana Azad.
- He was the visionary behind India's premier institutes - the IITs, IISc, and School of Architecture and Planning.
- He was also responsible for setting up apex bodies such as AICTE and UGC.
- Not just primary education and literacy but, Azad was also instrumental in the promotion of culture and literature through education.
- Most of the cultural and literary academies we see today such as Lalit Kala Academy, Sahitya Academy, etc. were established by him.
- He also stressed vocational training and diversification of secondary education.
- Triguna Sen:-
- He was the Union Minister for education in the Government of India.
- He got Padma Bhushan in 1965.
- Pranab Kumar Mukherjee:-
- He was an Indian statesman who serves as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017.
- He was also a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India.
- Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi:-
- She was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress.
- She was the first and, to date, only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India.
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