Hyderabad: Considering the need to train and equip teachers with appropriate technology, IGNOU has decided to set up five ICATT (Institute for Competency Advancement for Teachers through Technology) centres across the country, a top official said.

"These institutions will be established in five places in North, East, West, South and North-East regions under Private-Public Partnership (PPP) schemes," IGNOU Vice Chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai told PTI.

"Our target is to train one lakh teachers from each centre in next three years, who will be accorded diplomas. Positively, by March 2010 all these five centres will be operational," he said.

"The real challenge after the introduction of Right to Education Bill in this country is to train, re-train and provide continuous capacity building of teachers at all levels right from Kindergarten to the top-most levels," Pillai said.

"We have millions of untrained teachers working in our schools and need more teachers. If only we can create systems and structures to provide quality teacher education, the realisation of the Right to Education will happen," he said.


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