Lok Sabha Question No. 873 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-23
Subject: Shortage of Trained Teachers
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: AJAY (TENI) MISRA, RAHUL KASWAN, RAJIV PRATAP RUDY, BHARAT SINGH

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †873 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.07.2018

## Shortage of Trained Teachers

## †873.  SHRI AJAY MISRA TENI: SHRI RAHUL KASWAN: SHRI RAJIV PRATAP RUDY: SHRI BHARAT SINGH:

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

- (a) whether the Government is aware of the quality of education declining rapidly in various States, especially due to shortage of trained teachers and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the Government is also aware that the teachers in the schools are lacking basic knowledge in the subjects and if so, the measures taken/to be taken in this regard;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to take various measures to enhance the standard of education in the country including trained teachers, particularly in Bihar and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether the Government has issued any directives to the States in this regard and if so, the details thereof, especially in villages and rural regions of the country; and
- (e) whether the Government proposes to provide 20 percent extra amount as incentive to schools with better  performance  by  obtaining  their  learning  outcome  levels  every  year  and  if  so,  the  details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) to (e): Section 23(1) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE)Act, 2009 stipulates  that  any  person  possessing  such  minimum  qualifications,  as  laid  down  by  an  academic authority, authorized by the Central Government, by notification, shall be eligible for appointment as a teacher. Accordingly, the Central Government has notified the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) as academic authority for recruitment of teachers.

Additionally, NCTE, mandated for providing quality teacher education to the prospective teachers, has set  norms  and  standards  for  infrastructure,  instructional  facilities  and  qualification  and  experience  of faculty for the teacher education institutions in which teachers are trained. For this purpose,  NCTE  has  revised  its  Recognition,  Norms  and  Procedure,  Regulations  2014.  Further,  the erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Teacher Education (CSSTE) aimed to provide infrastructural and institutional support to Government Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs). To emphasize the focus on quality interventions and teacher training, CSSTE provided for programme related interventions such

as Capacity Building, Specific projects for academic activities, Induction Training of Teacher Educators, Faculty Development and Technology Support, etc. to Teacher Education Institutes viz. State Council of Educational  Research  and  Training  (SCERT),  District  Institutes  of  Education  and  Training  (DIETs), Block Institutes of Education (BITEs), Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) and Institute of Advanced Studies in Education(IASEs).

The Central Government has launched an Integrated scheme for School Education - Samagra Shiksha, from 2018-19 which subsumes the erstwhile centrally sponsored schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education Scheme(TE). Under Samagra Shiksha, support is given to the State Governments and UT Administrations on several interventions to improve teaching standards, including inter alia; regular in-service teachers' training, induction training for  newly  recruited  teachers  including  training  on  ICT  Component,  Inclusive  Education,  Gender Sensitization,  Adolescent  Education  and  remedial  teaching  for  academically  weaker  students.  Under Samagra  Shiksha,  the  focus  is  to  give  subject  specific,  need  based  and  relevant  in  service  teacher training to both elementary and secondary teachers for their professional development. The trainings are provided  through  the  institutional  structure  of  State  Council  of  Educational  Research  and  Training (SCERT)  at  State  level,  District  Institute  of  Education  and  Training  (DIET)  at  District  level,  Block Resource Centers / Cluster Resource Centers at Block / Cluster level.

Further, Section23(2) of the RTE Act has been amended to extend the period of in-service training for untrained elementary teachers to 31st March, 2019 in all the states including the State of Bihar. As per the above amendment, all untrained in-service teachers working in Government, Government aided, and Private un-aided schools should acquire minimum qualification as laid down by an academic authority, authorized by the Central Government, by 31st March, 2019. The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has been entrusted to conduct this training through ODL(Open Distance Learning) mode. The online D.El.Ed. course has started from 3rd October, 2017. More than 13.7 Lakh teachers have joined these courses, out of which more than 2, 81,118 teachers are from Bihar.

Further, in order to focus on quality education, the Central rules to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE)Act have been amended to include reference on class-wise, subject-wise Learning Outcomes. The Learning Outcomes for each class in Languages (Hindi, English and Urdu), Mathematics,  Environmental  Studies,  Science  and  Social  Science  up  to  the  elementary  stage  have, accordingly, been finalized and shared with all States and UTs. These  serve as a guideline for State and UTs to ensure that all children acquire appropriate learning level.

The  National  Council  of  Educational  Research  and  Training  (NCERT)  conducts  periodic  national surveys  of  learning  achievement  of  children  in  classes  III,  V,  VIII  and  X.  The  objective  of  National Achievement Survey (NAS) was to find out the health of the education system in the  country  and  find  out  learning  gaps  at  the  district  level.  NAS  based  on  learning  outcomes  at  the elementary level has been conducted on 13th November, 2017 with a sample frame upto district level to enable states/UTs to identify gaps in learning outcomes at district level and design strategies to address those gaps. Similarly, NAS for Class X has been conducted on 5 th February, 2018. The funds for post NAS activities  to  improve  the  learning  levels  of  students  are  released  under  the  Centrally  sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha, based on the appraisal of proposals received from the States and UTs.