<p>The Centre has prepared a scheme to set up teachers training institutes in as many as 196 blocks with high concentration of members belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and minority communities across the country.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The proposed scheme, which is to be placed for finalisation at the State Education Ministers’ meeting to be held here on June 5, seeks to facilitate entry of talented persons primarily from SC, ST and minority communities into the teaching profession.<br /><br />The government’s policy for elementary education has a foundation for inclusive education and includes strategies for sensitisation of teachers to the specific needs of children belonging to SC, ST and Minorities.<br /><br />The establishment of these institutions would ensure access to good quality teacher education facilities for rural and remote areas and facilitate the entry of talented persons, “particularly persons from SC, ST and Minority concentration areas into the teaching profession.”<br /><br />“This would help to overcome the shortage of locally based teachers in these areas to be employed in elementary schools,” a Human Resource Development Ministry official told Deccan Herald.<br /><br />The proposed Block Institute of Teacher Education (BITE) will basically be a pre-service elementary teacher education institution. While the Centre will incur 75 per cent of the cost of setting up these institutes, the states will have to bear the remaining 25 per cent expenditure. In the case of Northeast states, the Centre-state sharing of cost will be 90:10, according to the proposal.<br /><br />Apart from setting up the BITEs, the ministry also wants the states to explore possibility of approaching well performing elementary teacher education institutions for admitting eligible persons from the SC, ST and Minority communities to the teacher education courses.<br /><br />The ministry would meet the cost of tuition and other fees in respect of persons so admitted in such institutions. “We will put up the suggestion before the state education ministers during their meeting scheduled here next week,” sources in the HRD Ministry said.</p>
<p>The Centre has prepared a scheme to set up teachers training institutes in as many as 196 blocks with high concentration of members belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and minority communities across the country.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The proposed scheme, which is to be placed for finalisation at the State Education Ministers’ meeting to be held here on June 5, seeks to facilitate entry of talented persons primarily from SC, ST and minority communities into the teaching profession.<br /><br />The government’s policy for elementary education has a foundation for inclusive education and includes strategies for sensitisation of teachers to the specific needs of children belonging to SC, ST and Minorities.<br /><br />The establishment of these institutions would ensure access to good quality teacher education facilities for rural and remote areas and facilitate the entry of talented persons, “particularly persons from SC, ST and Minority concentration areas into the teaching profession.”<br /><br />“This would help to overcome the shortage of locally based teachers in these areas to be employed in elementary schools,” a Human Resource Development Ministry official told Deccan Herald.<br /><br />The proposed Block Institute of Teacher Education (BITE) will basically be a pre-service elementary teacher education institution. While the Centre will incur 75 per cent of the cost of setting up these institutes, the states will have to bear the remaining 25 per cent expenditure. In the case of Northeast states, the Centre-state sharing of cost will be 90:10, according to the proposal.<br /><br />Apart from setting up the BITEs, the ministry also wants the states to explore possibility of approaching well performing elementary teacher education institutions for admitting eligible persons from the SC, ST and Minority communities to the teacher education courses.<br /><br />The ministry would meet the cost of tuition and other fees in respect of persons so admitted in such institutions. “We will put up the suggestion before the state education ministers during their meeting scheduled here next week,” sources in the HRD Ministry said.</p>
