- Manage the School Education System in Himachal Pradesh.
- Exercise Administrative & Financial control over its various functionaries/offices, comprising of:
- District/Block Offices
- DIETs (District Institutes of Education and Training)
- Primary and Upper Primary Schools/Units in the State
- Implement policies relating to School Education in the State.
- Implement Centrally Sponsored Schemes as well as the state plan & Non-Plan schemes in the field of School Education.
- Manage and control service matters of teaching/non-teaching staff of the School Education Department.
- Exercise financial control over privately managed Government-aided primary & upper primary schools in the State.