State asks school teachers to undergo training

28 April 2012

biswabrata goswami 
TAMLUK, 28 APRIL: The state government has instructed teachers who are not professionally trained to undergo teachers’ training through open distance learning (ODL) system within the period of two years.
Accordingly, a total of 2700 school teachers in East Midnapore alone will have to undergo teacher’s training through ODL system, said Mr Mamud Hossain, saha-sabhadhipati of zilla-parishad. The state government has already selected 80 schools across the state from where the essential teacher’s training will be given to all untrained teachers. In East Midnapore, 20 schools have been earmarked for this purpose.
The initiative has come after it was learnt that a high percentage of teachers failed in the National Teacher Eligibility Test conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education in 2010-11. According to a survey studied by non-government organisations, 21 per cent of teachers in schools were not professionally trained.