NCTE not to implement new regulations till pendency of cases

National Council for Teacher Education today assured the Madras High Court that the time frame of 21 days stipulated to implement the amended new regulations introduced by it for recognition to Teacher Education Institutions will not be given effect till the pendency of writ petitions filed challenging it.
Justice T S Sivagnanam, before whom the petitions filed including Tamil Nadu Self-Financing College of Education Management Association has come up, ordered issueof notices to NCTE, Delhi, The Regional Director, Southern Regional Committee, NCTE and Tamil Nadu Teacher Education University, returnable by March 16.
The Association challenged certain amended provisions made by NCTE to declare the amended provisions and certain clauses of the Regulations-2014 of NCTE as null and void, unenforceable, invalid, arbitrary and unjust besides unconstitutional.

The Association submitted that there are 670 Teacher Education Institutions (Colleges) offering B.Ed, M.Ed courses in Tamil Nadu.
As per the new regulations the B.Ed and M.Ed courses hitherto being offered as one year course, has been enhanced two years each and thereafter the candidates must qualify Teacher Eligibility Test (TET).
It also challenged another amended provision of the NCTE reducing the intake of the candidates from 100 to 50 per Unit and increasing the Corpus Funds to Rs five and seven lakh per unit for an intake capacity of 50 candidates.

It has challenged another amended clause which mentioned about the faculty members should be 16 in number.

The amendments were introduced by NCTE with a direction in the notification to implement all these new regulations within a time frame of 21 days.
The counsel for NCTE Ramakrishna Reddy informed the court that the time frame of 21 days stipulated to implement the amended new regulations will not be given effect till the pendency of writ petitions filed challenging it.