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Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University Unit 31: SIEMAT as an Apex Body in Educational Planning and Management

Unit 31: SIEMAT as an Apex Body in Educational Notes

Planning and Management

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
31.1 State Institute of Educational Management and Training (SIEMAT)
31.2 Structure and Functions of SIEMAT
31.3 Faculty Members
31.4 Focus on Staff Development
31.5 Role of SIEMAT
31.6 Summary
31.7 Keywords
31.8 Review Questions
31.9 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below :
• to explain about state institute of educational management and training.
• to discuss about the structure and functions of the institute.
• to describe about the faculty members.
• to discuss about the focus on staff development.
• to explain about the role of SIEMAT, etc.

Introduction

Decentralization of educational planning and management is a major concern in India. Translation
of the idea of decentralisation into an operational practice requires creation of necessary organisational
arrangements to make the practice administratively feasible and professionally supportive.
The need for developing organisational arrangements to facilitate educational planning in a
decentralised framework was recognised for a long time in India. However, the efforts to create
such organisational arrangements were not very successful. Planning competencies are almost
non-existent at local levels and now it is recognised as one of the major constraints in translating the
idea of decentralised planning into an operational practice. Development of local capacity in planning
and management of education requires state level institutions to provide professional guidance and
support. SIEMAT can be one of the organisational arrangements to help professionalising educational
planning and management activities at the state, district and sub-district levels.
Various efforts were made in the past to create such an institutional structure at the state level.
When the State Institutes of Education were established in the 1960s, there was an expectation that
a wing specifically focusing on educational planning and management will be created. In the 1980s

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