Lok Sabha Question No. 471 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-07-24
Subject: National Mission for Mentoring
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Ganesan Selvam, Subhash Ramrao Bhamre, Manjulata Mandal, DNV Senthilkumar. S., Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Amol Ramsing Kolhe, Supriya Sadanand Sule, C.N. Annadurai, Dhanush M Kumar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO:- 471

ANSWERED ON-24/07/2023

## National Mission for Mentoring

## 471.  SHRI SELVAM G.:

DR. SUBHASH RAMRAO BHAMRE:

SHRIMATI MANJULATA MANDAL:

DR. DNV SENTHILKUMAR S.:

SHRI KULDEEP RAI SHARMA:

DR. AMOL RAMSING KOLHE:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

SHRI C.N. ANNADURAI:

SHRI DHANUSH M. KUMAR:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has established the National Mission for Mentoring (NMM) and if so, the details thereof and the aims and objectives behind the move;
- (b) whether some schools were selected to participate in the pilot mode of NMM and if so, details and outcome thereof;
- (c) the constraints faced by the Government while implementing NMM;
- (d) whether standard of education is declining in various States due to shortage of trained/skilled teachers  in  the  country  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State/UT-wise  especially  in  Tamil  Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Maharashtra and Odisha;
- (e) whether the Government proposes any changes/updation in the training programme for teachers including increasing the duration of courses and compulsory internships and if so, the details thereof;
- (f) whether proposed changes are likely to improve the quality of teachers in the country and if so, the details thereof; and
- (g) the corrective steps taken by the Government to improve the standard of education in the country?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a) to (c): The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 mandates to establish a National Mission for Mentoring (NMM) with a large pool of outstanding senior/retired faculty - including those with the ability to teach in Indian languages willing to provide short and long-term mentoring/professional support to university/college teachers. The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has been assigned to develop and design the modalities for National Mission for Mentoring (NMM). NCTE has  developed  a  Bluebook  on  NMM  after  consultation  with  all  concerned  stakeholders.  The consultation process included a pilot study on NMM in 30 Central Government schools (15 KVS, 10 NVS, and 5 CBSE) across the country.

(d): The State/UT-wise details of government teachers without professional qualification as available with UDISE+2021-22 are given at ANNEXURE.

(e)  &  (f):  A  Four  Year  Integrated  Teacher  Education  Programme  (ITEP)  has  been  launched,  as mandated by NEP 2020, as a pre-service teacher education programme that will be a dual-major holistic bachelor's degree in Education as well as a specialized subject.

(g):  The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha focuses on improvement in quality of education  by  providing  support  for  different  interventions  to  all  States  and  UTs,  like  in-service training of teachers and school heads, conduct of achievement surveys at state and national level, composite school grant to every school for providing a conducive learning environment, grants for library,  sports  and  physical  activities,  support  for  Rashtriya  Avishkar  Abhiyan,  ICT  and  digital initiatives, School Leadership development programme, remedial teaching for academically weaker students, etc.

As mandated by NEP 2020, several initiatives have been taken by the government to improve the standard of education in the country. These include launching of National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat for ensuring that every child in the country  necessarily  attains  Foundational  Literacy  and  Numeracy  (FLN)  by  the  end  of  Grade  3, National  Initiative  for  School  Heads'  and  Teachers'  Holistic  Advancement  (NISHTHA)  3.0  for teachers and school heads from pre-primary to class V, notifying Learning Outcomes for secondary level,  conducting  the  National  Achievement  Survey  (NAS)  2021,  development  of  the  Structured Assessment for Analyzing Learning levels (SAFAL) framework for assessment of CBSE schools, VIDYA PRAVESH guidelines for 03 month play-based school module for Grade-I children etc.

Further,  the  task  for  developing  National  Professional  Standards  for  Teachers  (NPST)  has  been assigned to the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and NCTE has prepared an NPST guiding document based on the inputs/suggestions from various stakeholders. NPST aims to improve the teachers' personal and professional development by providing them an understanding of what is expected in terms of their performance and what needs to be done to enhance the same.

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN PART (d) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 471 FOR 24 TH  JULY, 2023 ASKED BY HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT(S) SHRI SELVAM G AND ORS. REGARDING "NATIONAL MISSION FOR MENTORING".

| Teachers without Professional Qualification (Govt.)   | Teachers without Professional Qualification (Govt.)   | Teachers without Professional Qualification (Govt.)   |
|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
| State/UT                                              | Number                                                | Percentage                                            |
| Andaman &Nicobar Islands                              | 382                                                   | 9.9                                                   |
| Andhra Pradesh                                        | 6,296                                                 | 3.4                                                   |
| Arunachal Pradesh                                     | 1,932                                                 | 12.2                                                  |
| Assam                                                 | 84,110                                                | 38.4                                                  |
| Bihar                                                 | 67,591                                                | 17.2                                                  |
| Chandigarh                                            | 258                                                   | 5.4                                                   |
| Chhattisgarh                                          | 7,963                                                 | 4.5                                                   |
| Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu                    | 125                                                   | 4.5                                                   |
| Delhi                                                 | 3,451                                                 | 4.3                                                   |
| Goa                                                   | 162                                                   | 5.7                                                   |
| Gujarat                                               | 7,689                                                 | 4.0                                                   |
| Haryana                                               | 3,161                                                 | 3.5                                                   |
| Himachal Pradesh                                      | 6,949                                                 | 11.0                                                  |
| Jammu &Kashmir                                        | 13,326                                                | 13.6                                                  |
| Jharkhand                                             | 52,356                                                | 44.4                                                  |
| Karnataka                                             | 7,535                                                 | 3.8                                                   |
| Kerala                                                | 4,069                                                 | 5.4                                                   |
| Ladakh                                                | 979                                                   | 22.2                                                  |
| Lakshadweep                                           | 33                                                    | 4.5                                                   |
| Madhya Pradesh                                        | 7,082                                                 | 2.3                                                   |
| Maharashtra                                           | 1,628                                                 | 0.7                                                   |
| Manipur                                               | 4,175                                                 | 23.3                                                  |
| Meghalaya                                             | 7,291                                                 | 32.7                                                  |
| Mizoram                                               | 769                                                   | 6.1                                                   |
| Nagaland                                              | 8,233                                                 | 44.7                                                  |
| Odisha                                                | 9,769                                                 | 4.8                                                   |
| Puducherry                                            | 261                                                   | 5.7                                                   |
| Punjab                                                | 19,072                                                | 16.6                                                  |
| Rajasthan                                             | 13,282                                                | 3.5                                                   |
| Sikkim                                                | 2,919                                                 | 30.3                                                  |
| Tamilnadu                                             | 2,615                                                 | 1.2                                                   |
| Telangana                                             | 6,727                                                 | 5.1                                                   |
| Tripura                                               | 13,505                                                | 48.7                                                  |
| Uttar Pradesh                                         | 62,663                                                | 10.2                                                  |
| Uttarakhand                                           | 3,034                                                 | 5.3                                                   |
| West Bengal                                           | 61,171                                                | 13.3                                                  |
| India                                                 | 4,92,563                                              | 10.4                                                  |

(Source: UDISE+2021-22)