For learning to flourish and drive value for the nation, please ignore HRD managers.

Prof TV Rao, if we ignore those universities and colleges, that are run by industrialists, media houses and career politicians or those paddy field colleges, or those, which are designed to grab land, we have innovation centers and COEs galore at IITs, IIMs. Last year, IIM Indore got a Grant of Rs. 19.95 Crores to Establish CoE! IIM Calcutta Innovation Park (IIMCIP) is a not for profit (Section 8) company established under the aegis of IIM Calcutta to promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation. IM, Ahmedabad–IDEA Cellular and IIT, Kharagpur–Vodafone Essar have set up Telecom Centers of Excellence long back. IIT B, D, Kgp, M, etc. Have several Innovation centered CoEs running.

For all this to flourish and drive value for the nation, please ignore HRD managers.
Grownups should not depend on HRD for their learning in this modern world, where learning is available. 24/7 for free.
If you remember, Ram Charan's HBR article "Time to Split HR" /https://lnkd.in/g-CDxXKe ! which led to HR community in deep shock and their morale could only be revived when Josh Bersin wrote a leveler to settle the ruffled HR sentiments.
HR has its own existential crisis, and it will remain so as it is not a core business function!
As you rightly said, education is personal responsivity, as critical as hygiene and health. Every leader must embrace, the ever-evolving, quintessential trait called, HR-LO (HR-Leadership Organization, the term given for the other expandable HR offering in his article, as mentioned above).
Let's make learning a priority, not HRD...Let's make learning the game changer not HRD!
HR -LO is a trait, not a department's' preserve!