New Delhi: National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) has derecognized 400 teacher training institutions across the nation. The initiative was taken by NCTE, in order to regularize and improve standards of teachers training institutes in the country.
The step was taken after the Council launched a national demand-supply study in each state, to determine the existing training institutes and look at the demand and supply situation in the next 10 years. As per the sources, the Council has also refused fresh applications from 12 states in India, where teacher training institutes of low quality have mushroomed. Moreover, NCTE will ban certain courses that are in over supply.
According to a senior official of the Human Resource Development Ministry, states like Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and a few others have the maximum number of teacher training institutes, whereas the states in northeast are heavily deficient.
