At the district level which of the following institution has been entrusted with the responsibility of in-service teacher-education for primary and elementary schools?

The Government launched the Scheme of Restructuring and Re-organisation of Teacher Education in 1987. The aim of this scheme was to create a sound institutional infrastructure for pre-service and in-service training of elementary and secondary school teachers and for the provision of academic resource support to elementary and secondary schools. The scheme had the following components :

• Setting up of District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs)
• Strengthening of Secondary Teachers Education Institutions into Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) and Institutes of Advanced Study in Education (IASEs)
• Strengthening of State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs)

This scheme was revised under the Xth Plan, with the following main objectives :

• Speedy completion of DIET/CTE/IASE/SCERT projects, which have been sanctioned but not completed up to the end of the IX Plan period
• Making DIETs, CTEs, IASEs sanctioned (and SCERTs strengthened) up to the IX Plan period, optimally functional and operational
• Sanction and implementation of fresh DIET/CTE/IASE/SCERT projects to the extent necessary
• Improvement in the quality of programs being undertaken by DIETs, etc. – especially those of pre-service and in-service training, so as to enable them to effectively play their nodal role of improving quality of elementary and secondary education in their respective jurisdiction, as measured in terms of levels of learner achievement

Hence, DIETs have been entrusted with the responsibility of in-service teacher education for primary and elementary schools.