Delhi Govt to Send 400 School Teachers to Singapore for Training

By Little India Desk | July 11, 2018

The Delhi government will send 400 teachers to Singapore for skill development and training, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on July 10. A proposal for the training program at the Singapore-based National Institute of Education has been approved, Sisodia, who is also in charge of the education department, tweeted.

Delhi govt will be sending 400 teachers for training to Singapore based National Inst. of Education.
200 teachers have already got trained by this worlds top educators-training institute last year .

Proposal approved today.

— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) July 10, 2018

The teachers selected for the initiative are mentor teachers who have been selected from the regular cadre of teachers, NDTV reported, citing sources. The program will help them get international exposure about improvement in teaching-learning methodologies and then pass it on to the other teachers they mentor, the report added.

“Just like with students, teachers deserve to learn new things and develop new understanding,” Sisodia tweeted later.

Just like with students, teachers deserve to learn new things and develop new understanding. https://t.co/VKQGskpX6J

— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) July 11, 2018

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also commented on the initiative on the social media. “The future of any country depends upon its teachers. They shape our kids. Del govt is committed to providing best training to its teachers (sic),” he tweeted.

The future of any country depends upon its teachers. They shape our kids. Del govt is committed to providing best training to its teachers. https://t.co/7lh2Ed04yA

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) July 10, 2018

The Aam Aadmi Party-led government had sent 200 teachers to the Singapore institute on a similar tour in August last year.

Six government school teachers from Delhi were also awarded the Fulbright Teaching Fellowship recently, the NDTV report added.

A group of Delhi government school principals was earlier sent to the Cambridge University in the United Kingdom for a course in School Leadership Development, IANS reported.

Meanwhile, the Delhi government is also planning to follow the “Singaporean model” for water treatment, Kejriwal said on July 10. The method, which uses waste water and purifies it for release into the system, will help increase 15 to 20 percent of the water supply in Delhi by 2020 and by 50 percent in the next five years, the AAP leader said. Water from sewage treatment plants (STPs) will be treated to high-quality level at Palla near Delhi-Haryana border and released into the Yamuna canal, Kejriwal added.