Lok Sabha Question No. 3022 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-06
Subject: National Council For Teacher Education
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RABINDRA KUMAR JENA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3022 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.08.2018

## National Council For Teacher Education

## 3022. SHRI RABINDRA KUMAR JENA:

## Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has proposed shifting of 4 regional committee offices of National Council  for  Teacher  Education  (NCTE)  from  Bhubaneswar,  Bhopal,  Jaipur  and  Bangalore  to Delhi; (b) if so, the reasons for this shift; (c) the jurisdiction and role of regional committee offices of NCTE in the 4 States where it is currently located; (d) whether eastern regional committee of NCTE can sufficiently govern over its jurisdiction of States in the North East, Odisha and West Bengal with its offices in Delhi; (e)  whether  the  representation  from  eastern  regional  committee  of  NCTE,  Bhubaneswar  has expressed in writing or otherwise its opposition to the shift of its office to Delhi; and (f) if so, the response of the Government thereto?

## A N S W E R MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) & (b) : Yes, Sir. The General Body of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) in its  46 th Meeting  held  on  28 th March,  2017  approved  for  shifting  of  all  the  4  Regional Committees of NCTE at New Delhi in the new building at Sector 10, Dwarka, New Delhi. In view of the online system of applying for new courses and their centralized processing, now applicant institutions are not required to visit the regional office for the purpose of processing of their applications. Accordingly, any geographical change in location of regional offices does not have any significance in so far as recognition process and monitoring of a teacher education institution  is  concerned.  Rather  this  move  is  expected  to  bring  in  transparency,  optimum utilization  of  human  and  other  resources  and  significantly  reduce  instances  of  uncalled  for discretion leading to corruption and malpractices.  Further, the location in Delhi of all offices enables optimum utilization of scarce resources and better supervision by NCTE Headquarters.

## (c): Jurisdiction of each Regional Committee of NCTE is as under:-

|   Sl. No. | Regional Committee          | Territorial Jurisdiction                                                                                                    |
|-----------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Eastern Regional Committee  | Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura and West Bengal. |
|         2 | Northern Regional Committee | Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Chandigarh and Delhi.                             |
|         3 | Southern Regional Committee | Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep and Pondicherry.         |
|         4 | Western Regional Committee  | Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.                          |

The role of Regional Committees of NCTE is to recognize Teacher Education Institutions(TEIs) offering course or training in Teacher Education and permit the recognized TEIs to start any new course or training in Teacher Education.

(d) to (f): The  Eastern  Regional  Committee  with  its  office  at  New  Delhi  can  sufficiently govern the jurisdiction of States in the North East, Odisha and West Bengal as there is adequate availability of transportation/communication for New Delhi from these States in the unlikely eventuality that an institution desired a face to face interaction, even when that is not mandated or  required  as  per  extant  Regulations.  There  has  been  no  representation  from  any  of  the Regional Committee members against this notification.

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