Department of Higher Education, Odisha

Department of Higher Education, Odisha

Formation	2010
Legal status	Active
Headquarters	Bhubaneswar
Region	Odisha
Official language	English
Key people	Mr. Gagan Kumar Dhal
Parent organisation	Government of Odisha
Website	dheodisha.gov.in

Department of Higher Education, Odisha (Hindi: उच्च शिक्षा विभाग, ओडिशा) is a unit of the Government of Odisha in India that looks after the school and college education in the state of Odisha. The department looks after the education curriculum at University, Post-Graduate, Graduate and Higher Secondary level in the state of Odisha. The department is responsible for hiring and employing the Higher Secondary school teachers and college professors employed in Government schools and colleges running under Government of Odisha. Moreover, it looks after functioning of state run Universities namely Ravenshaw University, Utkal University, Berhampur University, Sambalpur University, Sri Jagannath Sanskrit Viswavidyalaya, North Orissa University, Fakir Mohan University and Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology.

Facility

In the year 2010 Department of Higher Education, Odisha introduced Students Academic Management System also known as (SAMS). This facility is based on e-admission of students seeking admission to +2 and +3 classes in various private and government schools, colleges and university in the state of Odisha under Department of Higher Education in the streams of Arts, Commerce, Science and other self finance courses.

DHE Odisha website also enables facility of RTI, e-space, e-dispatch and pool of information resources about staff position and Infrastructure support of various Schools, Colleges and University. E- Dispatch and E- Space are web based facility for receiving Letters, Office Orders, Amendments, and other resources of information's of different departments of Government of Odisha.

See also

• Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha
• Board of Secondary Education, Odisha