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Notes (7) The SCERT needs to function as a forum for all those who can and want to contribute to quality
education in school education or in preparation of quality teachers. It has to serve as a forum
for empowerment of teachers, a forum for motivating and encouraging teachers and a forum
for providing space for teachers and teacher educators to explore and express their ideas.
(8) One of the major gaps in the quality of educational process arises from the lack of teachers and
teacher educators linking the new learning in their discipline or to disciplines that inform
education. The SCERT needs to be able to provide linkages with institutions of higher learning
and itself create opportunities for teachers and teacher educators engaged with such areas.

The SCERT also has a major role in developing appropriate learning materials for use
by children in their State. The books that are prepared by NCERT need to be supplemented
by appropriate contextualization and new materials that can actively engage children
and constantly evolve.

10.3.1 Governance, Self-Sufficiency and Autonomy:
There are a lot of activities that the SCERT performs for other institutions including the Textbooks
Council, Board of Secondary Education, the Board of Teacher Education, the SSA. It is important that
all the services provided by the SCERT must be costed and appropriate payments made to the
institution so that it can use the funds generated for its own development and exploration of newer
ideas.
The administrative and financial autonomy of the institutions including its ability to bring in short-
term faculty to lead and guide some programs or to give out short-term assignments on contract
needs to be increased.
Each SCERT must have a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) with representatives from the State
Universities.

Each State Government will set up immediately a Task Force for making an
assessment of the number of institutions of this nature required in the state keeping
in view the various relevant Programmes of Action. The 1 Task Force will also
identify the existing institutions which can be developed as District Institutes of
Education and Training. As DIETs get established, substandard institutions would
be phases out.

Self-Assessment
1. Fill in the blanks :-
(i) ............... were set up in different states
(ii) At present, there are SCERT in ............... states and state institution of Education
(iii) SCERT is a ............... agency in state and establish the coordinatiion with statutory bodies
like board of text books board of secondary education and board of elementary education.
(iv) SCERT in ............... has 16 deputy directors besides the director and joint directors.
(v) The ............... of director and faculty members SCERT differs from State to State.

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