DISTRICT INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION & TRAINING
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
GOVERNMENT OF SIKKIM
TATHANGCHEN, GANGTOK

1. Total manpower engaged and their details designation wise and contact number of important officials : District Institute of Education and Training

DIET Gangtok is under of charge of Joint Director, DIET with the following support staff both for academic and ministerial wings.

Quality education has been the major thrust area in education development in any country . Modern education system started in Sikkim with the advent of Finish Christian Missionaries. The first school was started by them at Khamdong (Rhenok) Song, and Lachen in 1880. later one Scottish Missionary Rev. W.S. Sutherand visited Sikkim in 1883. Another Scottish Missionary Rev. W Macfarlane visited Sikkim after two years. The Missionaries got official permission to settle only during 1889. The Finish missionaries who had started the schools handed them over to the Scottish Missionaries. By the second half 19th century, thirteen Turuk, Chakung, Soreng, Dentam Sang and Phambong. The Scottish Missionary , Rev. William Mac-Faralane had started a Training School called “ Normal School” in Darjeeling 1870. The first Sikkimese Student who was the then educated in that ‘Normal School’ was Mr. Apun Luksom.

Quality education depends largely on quality of teachers and quality of teachers depends largely on quality of their education and training. Teachers’ Training became an essential agenda of the government of time and the first training Institution was started at Gangtok in 1954. In the initial stage, teacher training course was called Village Teacher Training Course. Since the Government felt the need of having a trained person to run a training Institute, Shri P.S. Subba who was a teacher at T.N. S.S. School was deputed to Wardha, Gujarat to undergo training in Mahatma Ghandi’s Teacher Training Institute at Wardha. He became the first Sikkimese to have done so and was appointed as the Principal of that Basic Training Institute in 1959.

The teachers for undergoing the training were drawn from the various schools established at the time. Both regular government school teachers and Committee School teachers could attend the training for a period of one year. After the completion of the training course of one full year, the teacher was awarded a certificate by the Department of Education. Besides, this there was provision for incentives in the form of training allowance of Rs. 10/per month.

The Institution so established continued working till 1959 when it was shifted to a place called Pelling where it was attached to the Pelling Senior Secondary School and under the control of the Principal of that School.. The Institute continued working for some time but due to reasons not known it lay dormant for a few years.

In 1975 the institution was shifted to Gangtok. Regular courses of teacher training were initiated in the Institute again. After being shifted to many other buildings, the Institutions was finally shifted to the present location in 1986 and since then it has been in the same location. Crash Courses for Teachers Training was conducted in 1977-78 to trainee all the untrained teachers of time. Till then the State Institute of Education and Teachers Training Institute were functioning hand in glove to impart In-service Training to teachers. Since 1979 Regular full time Training was conduct for teachers drawn from different government schools of the state in the TTI.

The National Policy on Education 1986 contemplated a district level Institution for education and training of teachers in all districts in the country. The Programme of Action (POA)for NPE 1986 envisaged that there would be three tier Teacher Education and Research and Training Institute on the lines of NCERT-SCERT and DIET at the National , State and District levels. Since 1998, the Teacher Training Institute has been upgraded as the (DIET). The TTI/DIET continued to run the In-Service Training for teachers of Sikkim till 2002 in a regular basis. The National Council of Teacher Education granted recognition to the DIET and it started to run Pre-Service Teacher Education Course since 2003. The first Pre-Service teacher training programme was lunched with admission of 83 trainees on August 2003. The course is divided into four semestes and includes Educational Theory, Content-cum-Methodology, English, Mathematics, Nepali, Environmental studies I (Social Science) Environmental studies II (natural science) School Organization, Psychology, Social Philosophical Perspective of Educational, School Experience Programme, Health & Physical Educational Practical & Project work. The Gangtok DIET is equipped to conduct regular Pre-service Course and In-service Teacher Education Course held at regular inter vals.

Since 2003 Pre-Services Training of 2 years durations started in DIET and the regular In-Service Training of 1 years was discontinued. The following tables gives the details of the pre services Training.

DETAILS OF IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING (from 2004 onwards) at DIET

Programme

Note : The Gangtok DIET is equipped only to conduct Pre-Service and It-Service Teacher Education Course at Present and other branches are to be made functional in future.

In 1996 the TTI trained the school mothers in 8 batches and covered 522 schools mothers of different school in the State. The following table gives the details of school mothers trained by the TTI.

The State Government has given top priority for teacher training . The capacity building of teachers through regular and intensive training has been the main focus of the Department. A fully functional well equipped teacher training institution is envisaged. A new DIET campus is proposed to be setup at Burtuk near the Helipad. The Honorable Chief Minister of Sikkim laid the foundation stone of the proposed new building on 1st September 2004. Many Cabinet Minister HRDD. The Honorable Chief Minister was also felicitated on the occasion for having been honoured with the best performance in Education among small States in India. The new Campus it comes up it will serve many of the requirement of the DIET.

ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2005-2006

District Institute of Education and Training conducts regular Two-year Pre Service Teacher Educational Course spread over 4 semesters. Apart from the regular pre Service Course it also conducts short term in-service for primary teachers. The following details reflect the activities of Diet for the year 2005-2006

Apart from the above , the lecturers of DIET including Principal attended training programme and workshop conducted by national Institutes as given below:

Annual Report 2006-2007

District Institute of Education and Training was conceived as a major intervention in providing quality training to teachers by the National Policy on Education 1986. Education is a continuous process and its quality depends on training and Education of Teachers who are the real practitioners . In Sikkim, TTI which was catering to training to training needs of teachers till 1988 and DIET became a Central Sponsored Scheme in 1989 with upgradation of the existing indtitute (TTI). It is the only government Institution providing pre-service training to prospective local candidates who may opt for the primary teacher’s job . The institute is located a Tathangchen, Gangtok and has a strength of 10 teaching faculty including the Principal with ministerial and class IV staff. The Institute is recognized by the National Council of Teacher Education.

District Institute of Education & training conduct 2 years Pre-service Teacher Training Course. Since 2003 , pre-service Training was lunched. The following table gives the number of candidates trained.

Further Central Institute of Hindi (CIH) Agra conduct two courses for DIET Trainees: one from 7/5/06 to 22/6/06 at Accounts & administrative Training Institute (AATI), Gangtok and another at Central Institute of Hindi (CIH) Agra from 16/1/07 to 8.2.07. 23 DIET trainees and 27 In-service teachers attended the programme at Agra.

In Service Training also is conducted as and when the faculty is free from pre-service training or when there are vacations, DIET has developed a Training Material for In-service teachers. It was used for training of Resource Persons and Teacher under SSA Scheme. During 2006-2007 the following training was conducted

Apart from above the DIET is also engaged in works like Greening of Text books, preparation of (TLM) Teaching Learning Material for Monastic schools. Preparation of question paper and Evaluation of Answer script for recruitment of teachers and such other programmes which then department calls upon to do.

DIET is 200% centrally sponsored teachers Education Schemes funded by govt. of India Department School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resources Development under which funds for salaries of staff, in – services training programmes contigenency and faculty development are provided.

Process of Admission
District Institute of Education & Tranning is a Teacher is teacher Education Institute which conduct 2 years Pre-Service Teacher Education Course. The other Institute conduction the Course is Carnal Teacher Tranning Instituite Pakyang. The intake capacity as approved by NCTE for DIET Gangtok is 50 candidates for year.
The Admission for the course are held in July every year. Admission Notice in local channels and News papers are published inviting applications and the candidates aspring to undergo the training may apply in prescribed froms which are available in the Prospectus. Seats for each district and category are reserved and candidates can apply with required documents as mention in the Prospectus. Admission is based on merit computed on the basis of 40% weightage to CL X 60% weightage to Cl XII merit’s and admission teste of 100 marks in which the canididate proficiency in English, Math’s, EVS-I (Social Studies), EVS-II (Science) are tested for determining the eligibility / merit of the candidate.