The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), and the District Institutes for Education and Training (DIETs) have been restructured in what Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, termed a “historic” move here on Wednesday.
Mr. Sisodia was speaking at a ceremony organised on the occasion of restructuring of both the bodies, which he said had been strengthened. The restructuring of both the bodies is in line with what the government termed was a recognition of the “primacy of building a strong academic and institutional foundation” for a series of reform initiatives in education being introduced by it.
The restructuring involves upgrading the structure of SCERT from 509 posts to 1,295 posts, and reinventing pay scales and designations across the organisation at par with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), according to University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines.
The Delhi government has, according to the statement, “substantially increased” the number of academic faculty positions at SCERT and DIETs from around 240 to over 600 to enable these institutions to “better serve their objectives”.
“Delhi is the first place in the world that introduced the concept of estate managers in government schools to ensure that the principal can focus on academics and there is someone to take care of the maintenance of the premises,” Mr. Sisodia said.
“Similarly, today we add ‘programme coordinators’ in SCERT and DIETs so that educators can focus on the content of trainings and its deliverance instead of food and logistics in big training programmes,” he added.