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Development of Education System

Notes (iii) Pandit Sunderlal Sharma Central Institute of Vocational Education (PSSCIVE): Organizes
research, development training and extension activities related to work education and
vocational education.
(iv) Regional Institute of Education: The need of teachers in the states and UTs under their
jurisdiction.
• The union minister of human resource development is the president of the general body of
the NCERT. General body includes educational ministers of all states and union territories.
Other members are chairperson of UGC, secretary to the government of India, ministry of
Human resource development, four vice chancellors of universities.
• The Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education; the Commissioner of the
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan; the Director, Central Health Education Bureau; the Director
of Training, Directorate General of Training and Employment, Ministry of Labour; one
representative of the Education Division, Planning Commission; all the members of the
Executive Committee.
• The main governing body of the NCERT is the Executive Committee. The Union Minister
of Human Resource Development is its President (ex officio) and the Union Minister of
State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development is the ex officio Vice-President.
• The NCERT performs the important functions of conducting and supporting educational
research and offering training in education research methodology.
• Developmental activities in school education constitute an important function of the NCERT.
The major developmental activities include development and renewal of curricula and
instructional materials for various levels of school education and making them relevant to
changing needs of children and society.
• Pre-service training of teachers at various levels; pre-primary, elementary, secondary and
higher secondary, vocational eduation, eduational technology, guidance and counseling,
and special education are the areas of training in which NCERT works.
• Various Departments of the NIE, RIEs, CIET and PSSCIVE, are engaged in various ways.
Constituents of NCERT work in close collaboration with various agencies and institutions
in the functionaries in these areas where special problems exist and where special efforts
are needed.
• NCERT published textbooks for different school subjects for Classes I to XII. It also brings
out workbooks, teachers' guides, supplementary readers, research reports, etc.
• NCERT interacts with international organizations such as UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, NFPA
and the World Bank to study specific educational problems and to arrange training
programmes for personnel from other countries.

11.8 Keywords
• Autonomous : An organization to govern itself independently
• Constituent : One of the parts f something that combine to form the whole.
• Organizational : The quality of being arranged in a neat careful and logical way.
• Structure : The way in which the parts of something are connected together,
arranged or organized.
• Department : A section of a large organization such as a government, university etc.

11.9 Review Questions

1. Discuss about NCERT and explain about its constituent units.
2. What are the functions of NCERT?

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