Question : National Council For Teacher Education

(a) whether the Government has proposed shifting of 4 regional committee offices of National
Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) from Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Jaipur and Bangalore to
Delhi;
(b) if so, the reasons for this shift;
(c) the jurisdiction and role of regional committee offices of NCTE in the 4 States where it is
currently located;
(d) whether eastern regional committee of NCTE can sufficiently govern over its jurisdiction of
States in the North East, Odisha and West Bengal with its offices in Delhi;
(e) whether the representation from eastern regional committee of NCTE, Bhubaneswar has
expressed in writing or otherwise its opposition to the shift of its office to Delhi; and
(f) if so, the response of the Government thereto?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) & (b) : Yes, Sir. The General Body of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) in
its 46th Meeting held on 28th March, 2017 approved for shifting of all the 4 Regional
Committees of NCTE at New Delhi in the new building at Sector 10, Dwarka, New Delhi.
In view of the online system of applying for new courses and their centralized processing, now
applicant institutions are not required to visit the regional office for the purpose of processing
of their applications. Accordingly, any geographical change in location of regional offices does
not have any significance in so far as recognition process and monitoring of a teacher education
institution is concerned. Rather this move is expected to bring in transparency, optimum
utilization of human and other resources and significantly reduce instances of uncalled for
discretion leading to corruption and malpractices. Further, the location in Delhi of all offices
enables optimum utilization of scarce resources and better supervision by NCTE Headquarters.
(c): Jurisdiction of each Regional Committee of NCTE is as under:-
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Sl. No. Regional Committee Territorial Jurisdiction
1. Eastern Regional Committee Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar,
Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram,
Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura and West
Bengal.
2. Northern Regional Committee Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab,
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal,
Chandigarh and Delhi.
3. Southern Regional Committee Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka,
Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar
Islands, Lakshadweep and Pondicherry.
4. Western Regional Committee Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Dadra and Nagar
Haveli and Daman and Diu.
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The role of Regional Committees of NCTE is to recognize Teacher Education
Institutions(TEIs) offering course or training in Teacher Education and permit the recognized
TEIs to start any new course or training in Teacher Education.
(d) to (f): The Eastern Regional Committee with its office at New Delhi can sufficiently
govern the jurisdiction of States in the North East, Odisha and West Bengal as there is adequate
availability of transportation/communication for New Delhi from these States in the unlikely
eventuality that an institution desired a face to face interaction, even when that is not mandated
or required as per extant Regulations. There has been no representation from any of the
Regional Committee members against this notification.
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