Prashikshak

‘Prashikshak’, the teacher education portal for District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) was recently launched by the government. 

About:

• It is a unique IT Initiative taken up under DIET. Prashikshak is a unique IT initiative, a first of its kind in the country, which will contain a comprehensive database of all DIETs in the country with all relevant performance indicators. 
• It will help benchmark DIETs to enable aspiring teachers to make informed choices about their future. 
• At the same time, it will give the opportunity to Central and State Governments to do real time monitoring of the institutions. Prashikshak was established through joint collaboration between Ministry of Human Resource Development and Central Square Foundation. 
• The objective of Prashikshak is to define quality benchmarks and help DIETs to make informed decisions about their institutes, compare the performance of their institute against other DIETs in the state/country as well as helping aspiring teachers make informed decision making.