Introduction

The National Council for Teacher Education, in its previous status since 1973, was an advisory body for the Central and State Governments on all matters pertaining to teacher education, with its Secretariat in the Department of Teacher Education of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Despite its commendable work in the academic fields, it could not perform essential regulatory functions, to ensure maintenance of standards in teacher education and preventing proliferation of substandard teacher education institutions. The National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986 and the Programme of Action thereunder, envisaged a National Council for Teacher Education with statutory status and necessary resources as a first step for overhauling the system of teacher education.

The National Council for Teacher Education as a statutory body came into existence in pursuance of the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 (No. 73 of 1993) on the 17th August,1995.

Organisation Structure

National Council for Teacher Education has its headquarters at New Delhi and four Regional Committee i.e., NRC, SRC, WRC and ERC situated at New Delhi to look after its statutory responsibilities. In order to enable the National Council for Teacher Education to perform the assigned functions including planned and co-ordinated development and initiating innovations in teacher education, the NCTE in Delhi as well as its four Regional Committee have administrative and academic wings to deal respectively with finance, establishment and legal matters and with research, policy planning, monitoring, curriculum, innovations, co-ordination, library and documentation, in service programs. The NCTE Headquarters is headed by the Chairperson, while each Regional Committee is headed by a Regional Director. 

Website Link: https://ncte.gov.in/Website/Index.aspx

Organisation Chart