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Court expresses concern over NCTE working

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CHENNAI: Unless the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) discharges its responsibility as it should, the formative years of children would be in the "unsafe hands" of inadequately trained teachers, the Madras High Court has cautioned.

Justice Prabha Sridevan, was passing orders on a batch of writ petitions from teacher-training institutes and B.Ed. colleges challenging a Government Order constituting a high-level committee to go into their functioning.

Though she ruled that State Governments had no power to inspect the functioning of teacher-training institutes (TTIs), she expressed concern at the "grave irregularities" in such institutions.

Commenting on the manner in which the NCTE was functioning, Justice Prabha Sridevan referred to pending applications from these institutes and said "it is difficult to understand as to why the NCTE is unable to process the applications within a reasonable time so that the institutes which comply with all the requirements are given recognition."

She also referred to the submission of a Special Government Pleader that in certain cases two or three institutions had on their staff rolls the same teachers. "This is a grave irregularity," she said.

"In yet another matter, recognition was given in March 2006 for the academic year 2005-06. It is beyond comprehension how thereafter the institution can admit students and train them adequately so that these students, in turn, are able to teach children properly," Ms. Justice Sridevan observed.

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