‘10th such institute for teacher education’

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Deputy Manish Sisodia laid the foundation stone for a new District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) at the Baburam School campus in east Delhi’s Shahdara on Thursday.

After the restructuring of the Delhi State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) and DIETs last year, this, the government said, was the first major expansion of such institutions.

The new DIET in Shahdara would be the 10th such institute in the city for teacher education and training, the statement read.

What all in 4.5 years?

“Four-and-a-half-years ago, Delhi gave ordinary people like us the responsibility of running the city...The education machinery was completely battered; school buildings were in ruins and teachers were low on motivation...We started with the intent to change this; we wanted all children to have access to high-quality education,” Mr. Kejriwal said.

Undergraduate colleges

Mr. Sisodia said the Delhi government had opened 13 new undergraduate colleges and the DIET would be college number 14, and number 15 will be another DIET, which would soon be launched at Defence Colony. Mr. Kejriwal and Mr. Sisodia visited the under-construction East Delhi campus of IP University to check the progress of the construction there.