From 2nd October HRD ministry will start one of the largest teacher education programme across the country, aimed at training around 11.09 lakh untrained teachers by March 2019. The ministry, on Teachers' Day, is also likely to kickstart the ambitious project of teaching 2,000 students of Kendriya Vidyalayas using tablets for science and mathematics subjects.
According to HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar teachers' education was an important part of school education reforms and there were over 11 lakh untrained teachers in schools under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - six lakh in government schools and five lakh in private ones. Earlier, under the RTE Act, they were supposed to complete diploma in elementary education by 2015.
Read more of this in a report by Manash Gohain in Times of India....
