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Programme to improve teaching skills

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL, DEC. 28. An ambitious programme is being launched in Madhya Pradesh to improve teaching skills and quality of teaching at elementary school level from January 1, 2005.

As many as 1.22 lakh untrained teachers, including regular teachers, assistant teachers, shikshakarmis (Grade I and II), contract teachers (Grade I and II) and Gurijis will be trained under the new programme, which would be called "Operation Quality".

Madhya Pradesh is the first state in the country to take up a programme on such a mammoth scale for training of teachers.

Operation Quality will be a two-year diploma in education recognised by the National Council for Teachers Training. Computer education will be a compulsory subject in the second year of this diploma course.

There are about 55,888 primary schools, 26,178 Education Guarantee Schools and 13,468 middle schools in the State. About 2.57 lakh teachers in different

cadres are teaching in these schools. Over one lakh of these teachers have not received any professional teachers' training and do not possess the B.Ed degree

or Diploma in Education.

The syllabus for Diploma in Education has been prepared by the Rajya Shiksha Kendra and will be taught in the distance education mode.

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