Jaipur, August 22: The Rajasthan High Court today upheld that decision of National Council for Teachers Education to put check on mushrooming of teachers training colleges saying this cannot be casually put to judicial review even if the colleges have erected huge infrastructure and employed staff.
Justice Manish Bhandari held that policy decision of the National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE) to put a check on mushroom growth of teachers training colleges by not granting recognition to the course for 2009-2010 is totally justified and cannot be casually put to judicial review even if colleges have built huge infrastructure and employed staff.
The judgement was delivered on a bunch of over 100 writ petitions filed by private colleges of state running teachers training courses (B.Ed, BSTC courses).
The Court also took a serious note of the fact that in Rajasthan alone, as submitted by the state government and NCTE, the number of trained teachers coming out of these institutes is around 1.2 lakh every year, whereas the jobs offered is to the extent of 20,000 per year.
In 2008-09 there were only 5,593 vacancies for such trained teachers in the state and against this around four lakh trained teachers had applied. .
—Agencies