Education is the pillar on which rests the edifice of human resource with globalization reducing the world to global village, competition in turning out better human resource has became intense. The State’s endeavor has been to offer best education infrastructure to its people.

Higher Education
Tremendous expansion has taken place in the field of Higher education both in terms of quality and quantity. It is apparent from the fact that Haryana Govt. has almost doubled the annual plan budget allocation from approximately Rs. 30.00 crore in 2004-05 to Rs. 50.00 crore in 2006-07. An amount of approximately Rs. 115.55 crore has been provided for 2007-08 on Plan side. Quality education to all is the priority of the Higher Education Department.
The Government of Haryana has decided to set up Rajiv Gandhi Education City at Kundli (Sonipat). Institutions of excellence for Higher Learning/Research will be set up in the Education City. 25 percent of the total seats would be reserved for the students of Haryana. The process of appointment of Consultant and acquisition of 2068 acres of land in the first phase has been undertaken by the Town & Country Planning Department, Haryana.

Education through Satellite (EDUSAT) project has been implemented in all the Government Colleges of the State in the first phase. A separate Studio for higher education has been constructed in DIET building, Sector-2, Panchkula. The EDUSAT equipments have been installed in the Studio/Colleges by the ISRO through Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bangalore.
An amount of Rs. 2.29 crore on the plan side would be utilized for this project as well as Rajiv Gandhi Education City in the year 2007-08. The imparting of education through EDUSAT has already begun from 24th July, 2006. During 2007-08, Govt. has decided to connect private aided Colleges through the EDUSAT network. For installation of EDUSAT equipment in private aided Colleges, the Govt. will provide Rs. one lakh as subsidy. Imparting of training in soft skills that started in 2005-06 has been given a new dimension with the telecast of DVD's pertaining to soft skills of 128 hours through EDUSAT for all the Govt. Colleges in Haryana.

The Govt. has started various job oriented courses in some of the Govt. Colleges from the academic session 2005-06 which are continuing in the session 2007-08 also. The list of courses is as follows:-
1. BTM (Bachelor of Tourism Management)
2. BIM (Bachelor of Information Management)
3. Bio Technology
4. BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration)
5. BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application)
6. BMC (Bachelor of Mass Communication)
7. PGDCA (Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application)
8. BMCJ (Bachelor of Mass Communication and Journalism)
9. BMC & VP (Bachelor in Mass Communication and Video Production)
10. Computer Science
11. Industrial Microbiology
12. Bachelor Degree in Lib. and Information Science
13. Fashion Designing
14. Early Child Care and Education

Rs. one crore has been disbursed for the year 2007-08 for the introduction/ continuation of above job oriented courses. This will go a long way to enable the students to obtain jobs after completing such courses. In addition to the above courses, the following courses have been introduced:-
1. Functional English
2. Guidance and Counselling
3. Data Care Management
4. Event Management
5. Insurance
6. E-Marketing
7. B. Library
8. Disaster Management
9. Audio Video Broad Casting & Live Performance.

In order to encourage healthy competition and to promote quality education besides encouraging private investment in the field of Higher Education and to promote the establishment of institutions of higher learning of international standards, the Haryana Private University Act. No. 32 of 2006 has been enacted. Rules under Haryana Private University Act have been framed vide notification dated 6.4.2007.

In order to implement its policy of rapid expansion in the sphere of higher education, Government has set up a Post Graduate Regional Centre of Kurukshetra University at Jind and opened new Government Colleges at Kaithal, Birohar, Mandi Dabwali, Julana, Govt. College for Women, Panchkula and Tosham and Girls wing in Govt. College, Sirsa from the academic session 2007-08.

Provision of Libraries upto Sub-Division and Block Level is to be taken up in a phased manner spread over a period of two years (2007-09). Sanction to open District Library at Jhajjar and Fatehabad has been received and six Sub-Divisional Libraries i.e. Rewari, Nuh, Panipat, Yamuna Nagar, Kaithal and Panchkula have been upgraded to District Libraries. In the first Phase (2007-2008) all Sub-Divisions are to be provided with a Public Library. In the 2nd Phase (2008-2009) all the 72 CD Block will be provided with Public Library facility. At Village level, District-Ambala has been earmarked and Village Libraries will be started in the Villages having a population of more than 5000.