PRIMARY TEACHRS' TRAINING INSTITUTES (PTTls)

It is quite encouraging to note that the Department of School Education has entrusted the W.B.Board of Primary Education with the power to supervise, control, extend affiliation to the PTTls and finally to administer and conduct their final one-year certificate examination. Necessary amendments have been made in the W.B.Primary Education Act, 1973 for this purpose. As the WBBPE is to look after the entire Primary Education in West Bengal, vesting the aforesaid power to the PTTls has been long overdue. The Board is thus empowered not only to supervise, control and conduct teacher training but also to prepare teacher-educators. The curriculum of the one-year course is expected to be revised and renewed soon.

HOLDING OF THE PTTI EXAMINATION

The final examination, 2005 of the one year certificate course of the Primary Teachers' Training Institutes (PTTls) were duly conducted by the Board in a centralized manner for candidates nearly 16000 in number. The results have been published and the mark-sheets have been distributed during this month, December, 2005.

AN INNOVATIVE PROCEDURE FOR SELECTION OF CANDIDATES BY THE BOARD:

To make the entire procedure of selection of candidates for admission to the PTTls transparent, the Board arranged for distribution of the admission forms through 44 designated branches of the United Bank of India and also collected the forms through them. The district-wise (and different category-wise viz. General, SC, ST, PH, OBC, ExServiceman etc. within the district) merit lists were prepared and handed over to the DPSCs where a District Counselling Committee finalized the institution-wise admission of the candidates.