Tougher recognition rules for new teachers' traning institutes

Updated on: Friday, October 23, 2009

New Delhi: Faced with allegations that it had given sanction to 'dubious' teacher training institutions, the National Council of Teachers' Education has brought in tougher rules, including norms for land, infrastructure and faculty, for grant of recognition to new institutes.

The regulatory body for teachers' education has repealed its Recognition Norms and Procedure Regulations of 2007 and put in place new norms that will restrict the intake capacity of an institute to maximum 300.

The NCTE Recognition Norms and Procedure Regulations of 2009 says no institute shall be granted recognition unless it has adequate land. The land could be either on ownership basis or lease from the government for not less than 30 years.

The organisation sponsoring the institute will have to ensure that it will not allow other institutions to operate within the demarcated area meant for the teachers' training institute.

These regulations assume significance in view of allegations that many teachers' training institutes were running from hired buildings.

Social activist Anna Hazare had written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year alleging that many "dubious" institutes were granted permission by the council's western region office in Bhopal.

Tougher recognition rules for new teachers' traning institutes

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