In a statement Union Minister Kushwaha said that there will be no untrained teacher in the country by the end of March 2019 in the elementary education system. He further added that if any teacher remains untrained whether government or private then his/her service as a teacher will cease to exist.
“The HRD ministry has taken a decision that it is mandatory to get training for all the untrained teachers who are in our elementary education system. As per RTE Act, all untrained teachers had to be imparted training by the end of 2015 but the target could not be achieved,” Kushwaha said.
Keeping the fact that large numbers of untrained teachers are still working in the country, he said, the government provided all such teachers an opportunity to get trained in the profession. The training for the teachers is being carried out by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).
If anyone (untrained teacher) fails to get training by the end of March 31, 2019, then their service as a teacher will cease to exist — be it in private or government school — as the government has taken a decision to make training mandatory for both private and government schools…There will be no untrained teacher in the country by March 2019,” the minister said.
The training will be in online mode and teachers will have to put in at least three hours to complete the training course.