Indore : Tightening its noose around rouge institutes, the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has asked teacher education institutions to fill up one online forms of geographic information system (GIS) within a week.
The western regional committee (WRC) of NCTE also sought a copy of the form to ensure that they all have adhered to the instructions.
The move is aimed at identifying those colleges that had obtained recognition on one address but are running from some other campuses. Action will be initiated against the colleges found running out of the prescribed lines.
The NCTE had made it mandatory for colleges to fill GIS forms so that it could have exact locations of their campuses about a year ago. But as no deadline was set by the NCTE, only a handful of colleges complied with the directives.
Taking a note of it, the NCTE has now fixed a week’s deadline.
The letter issued to the teacher education institutes states: “All teacher education institutions under the jurisdiction of WRC, NCTE are required to provide GIS data in prescribed form within one week strictly.”
The council has sought information regarding locations latitude-wise and longitude-wise of all the institutions running courses such as BEd, DEd, BPEd, MEd, MPEd and others courses.
A geographic information system is a computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present all types of geographical data. With the GIS, the NCTE will integrate hardware, software and data for capturing, managing, analyzing and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information of all the teacher training institutions.
The council introduced the system following complaints that colleges are defying the recognition rules and regulations. The complaints were received from across the country including five complaints from Indore that had reached to WRC of NCTE.
