1,000 BEd, DEd colleges served show-cause notice

Kolkata, December 2

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The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has issued a show-cause notice to 1,000 BEd and DEd colleges for failing to submit requisite data through affidavits, a senior Union Human Resource Development ministry official said here on Saturday.

“NCTE has already issued 1,000 show-cause notices to stop affiliation with NCTE and thereafter, these colleges will not be able to admit students for BEd and DEd courses. As many as 3,000 more show-cause notices will be issued soon,” said Anil Swarup, Secretary, School Education and Literacy, in the ministry.

The NCTE had asked 16,000 BEd and DEd colleges to submit affidavits in respect to all the data, but only 12,000 of them did so, he said. “I think the biggest mafia in the education sector are some BEd and DEd colleges... some of them exist in name only. We took them on,” he said at a session held by the Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce. — IANS