Background
The DIETs were envisioned in the National Policy of Education, 1986, and were created by the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development in the early 1990s to strengthen elementary education and support the decentralization of education to the district level, under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Teacher Education, and following the Guidelines suggested in the ‘Pink Book' (Government of India, 1989).
Institutional Vision and Identity
The vision for the DIETs that was articulated in the NPE 1986(modified in 1992) was for a strong district institution that would support pre-service and inservice work with teachers (clause 9.6) at the elementary education level. “Within a multi-level framework of educational development, central, state, district and local agencies will participate in planning, co-ordination, monitoring and evaluation” (clause 10.6). To support the universalisation of quality education and achieve quality in adult and life-long education, DIETs were visualized as a way to infuse the system with the following essential inputs:
(i) Provision of Pre-service and In-service teacher Education Programmes.
(ii) Organizing District level and State Level Educational Researches on issues pertaining to enrollment, retention, chievement, gender parity, proficiency and Drop outs.
(iii) Facilitating Collaborative Action Researches to enable practising teachers to address class room issues.
(iv) Scouting Innovative Practices of Primary/Upper Primary teachers and disseminating them among their colleagues by organizing periodical District level Seminars and releasing News bulletins which carry information on Innovative class room processes.
(v) Providing Resource Support to Non-Formal Education Sector by extending DIET expertise in developing curriculum and supplementary Learning Materials to adult learners
(vi) Designing and developing trainer Manuals for Anganwadi workers and for addressing Social concerns such as Crisis and Disaster Management, Gender Sensitivity, Leadership Manual for School Heads etc.
DIET Serchhip
Serchhip district was formed in the year 1998 by the state Government. Consequent to the formation of new district, MHRD, Govt. of India approved sanction for setting up of new Telescoped DIET for Serchhip district in the year 2003-04. The first and the only Teacher Education institution in the district, was then, inaugurated in the year 2006. The institution was later on upgraded into a full-fledged DIET on 15. 04. 2013.
National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) has granted a permission/recognition on 3rd March 2016 for conducting D.El.Ed programme with an intake of 50 students.( No.ER-207.6.26/ERCAPP2292/D.El.Ed./2016/44325 dated 03.03.2016)Download letter
