Lok Sabha Question No. 2025 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-30
Subject: Teachers Training Centres
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: UDAY PRATAP SINGH

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2025 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30 th  July, 2018

## Teachers Training Centres

## †2025. SHRI UDAY PRATAP SINGH:

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

- (a) whether the Government has conducted any assessment regarding Teacher Training Centres of  all the States including Madhya Pradesh or any report in this regard has come to light;
- (b)  if so, the State-wise details thereof;
- (c)  whether  work of upgradation of teachers training centres is being done by the Government under consideration of the Government; and
- (d)   if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(a)  & (b): The third party evaluation of erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Teacher Education was  conducted  in  2017  by  Tata  Institute  of  Social  Sciences  (TISS)  in  which  90  Teacher  Education Institutions(TEIs) across 11 States (Assam,  Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal  Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telengana and Uttar Pradesh)  and 2 UTs (Delhi and Puducherry) were covered.

(c)  &  (d):  The  Department  of  School  Education  &  Literacy  has  in  2017  initiated  the  process  of strengthening the State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs) and District Institutes of Educational Research and Training (DIETs) with a focus on restructuring the existing organisational structure  and  strengthening  of  linkages  with  other  state  and  district  level  sub-structures.  Samagra Shiksha, a centrally sponsored scheme of the Govt. of India has been launched in 2018 for the school of education  sector  extending  from  pre-school  to  class  12  by  subsuming  the  erstwhile  three  schemes  of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE).  Under Samagra Shiksha, one of the focus areas is strengthening and upgradation of SCERTs/SIEs and  DIETs  as  nodal  agencies  for  teacher  training.    The  guidelines  of  Samagra  Shiksha  have recommended organizational restructuring of the SCERTs and DIETs, creation of a separate cadre for teacher educators and recruitment of high quality people for academic posts in these TEIs.

F.41-5/2018-IS.13

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

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Subject:- Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2025 to be answered on 30.07.2018 regarding 'Teachers Training Centre'.

The text of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2025 to be answered on 30.07.2018 by Shri Uday Pratap Singh regarding 'Teachers Training Centre' is as under:-

- (a) whether the Government has conducted any assessment regarding Teacher Training  Centres  of  all  the  States  including  Madhya  Pradesh  or  any  report  in  this regard has come to light;
- (b) if so, the State-wise details thereof;
- (c) whether  work  of  upgradation  of  teachers  training  centres  is  being  done  by  the Government under consideration of the Government; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

Based  on  the  information  available,  a  draft  replay  to  the  above  question  has  been attempted and placed below for approval please.