The National Council for teacher education on 4th May 2022, has published the National Council for Teacher Education (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Amendment Regulations, 2022 to further amend the National Council for Teacher Education (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations, 2014.
Through this amendment, a new definition for the term composite institutions has been notified as follows:
“composite institutions” means a duly recognised higher education institution offering undergraduate or postgraduate programmes of study in the field of liberal arts or humanities or social sciences or sciences or commerce, as the case may be, at the time of applying for recognition of teacher education programmes.
Further under regulation 5, An eligible institution desirous of running a teacher education program may apply to the concerned regional committee for recognition.
The application shall be submitted online electronically on National Council for Teacher Education portal along with the processing fee, as applicable, and scanned copies of required documents including no objection certificate issued by the concerned affiliating body, original registered land document and the document indicating that the society or institution applying for the programme possesses land on the date of application issued by competent authority.
Duly completed online application in all respects should be submitted to the Regional Committee concerned between first day of March to thirty first day of May of the preceding year from the academic session for which recognition is sought:
Provided that the aforesaid period shall not be applicable for submission of application to innovative programmes of teacher education or pilots undertaken by the National Council for Teacher Education”
The processing fee under regulation 6 shall be paid by the applicant, as applicable, online through the designated banks for processing the application for grant of recognition to an institution to conduct a teacher education programme or addition to programme or intake in the existing programme.
The institution shall make the information and documents available online to the Council or its authorised representatives as and when required by them and failure to produce or show any of the required documents, shall be treated as a breach of the conditions of the recognition.
