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Teacher education reforms begin

Govt has issued show cause notices to around 4,000 institutes in the past few months

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According to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, there were over 1 million untrained teachers, including 50% in private schools, in the country.

Sahil Makkar New Delhi
The government thinks it is easier to clean up the mafia in the mining sector than in education — but is determined to succeed. 

A few days ago, Anil Swarup, secretary in the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), posted on Facebook: “Underground mining and overground mafia in the coal sector were easier to handle. Battle now on to tackle the more difficult underground mafia in the education sector”.

Swarup, who oversaw the auction of mines as coal secretary, was perhaps alluding to hundreds and thousands of Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs), providing substandard teacher

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