Assam Govt to Cease Diploma in Elementary Education: Ranoj Pegu

GUWAHATI: Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu, on Saturday informed the state assembly that the Diploma in Elementary Education(Dl-Ed) course would cease to exist in the state within two years.

Likewise, the current form B-Ed certificate course would be no use after 2030, the Education Minister added. Elaborating on the reasons for these, he said that the state government has started the implementation of the new National Education Policy, prepared after 25 years.

"According to the new Education Policy, the current form of our B-Ed course will be replaced by an integrated B-Ed course. We have already given approval to 71 colleges to start an integrated B-Ed course. Among them, three colleges have been upgraded to University level institution and the other 68 colleges would start the course," the Education Minister said adding that one of the prime reasons of the Assam education sector lagging behind the National level in terms of some rankings is that is the insufficiency of trained teachers.

He further said that only 38 percent of teachers in Assam are trained. The other 68 percent have not undergone training. To fix the problem he of late met Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and requested the latter to grant permission to the untrained teachers to pursue online B-Ed courses.

He ruled out an allegation by the Opposition that some schools in the state run without a teacher or run by a single teacher.

The Education Minister also said on the floor that the step is taken to give a push to the State Women's University. "In the upcoming fiscal state budget, Rs. 50 crores have been allotted to all the five state universities each. We have taken a step to give a push to the Women's University. Likewise, we would give mobility to the Rajiv Gandhi Co-operative University," he added.

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