Teachers to acquire minimum qualifications

New Delhi, April 11: HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar introduced the 'The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2017' here on Monday.

While coming to details that, The govt on Monday introduced in the Lok Sabha a bill seeking to amend the Right to Education Act to allow elementary teachers time till 2019 to get acquire minimum qualifications as mandated by the 2010 law.

As per the existing Act which came into effect on April 1, 2010, these teachers were to acquire minimum qualifications within five years by March 31, 2015.

The new bill has been brought as the state govt's were not able to continue the training process for in-service untrained teachers.

Subsequently, the state governments had requested for extending the period for "training untrained teachers so as to enable them to initiate and complete the said the training process", according to the Statement of Objects and Reasons of the bill.