• Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Malaviya Mission — Teachers Training Programme by the University Grants Commission in New Delhi. 

• Organised by the UGC, in association with the ministry of education, the Malaviya Mission — Teacher Training Programme aims to provide tailored training programmes for teachers. This programme will work for the capacity building of faculty members in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

• Pradhan also announced the renaming of Human Resource Development Centres (HRDCs) as Madan Mohan Malaviya Teachers’ Training Centres. He mentioned that this programme will ensure continuous professional development and help in building capacities of 15 lakh teachers of higher education institutions through 111 Malaviya Mission centres across India in a time-bound manner.

• The University Grants Commission’s (UGC) HRDCs cater to the teachers working in the country’s non-technical HEIs. These centres conduct Continuous Professional Development Programmes (CPDP) mainly in faculty induction, pedagogy, domain knowledge, and leadership.

Malaviya Mission

• Prime Minister launched the scheme of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers & Teaching (PMMMNMTT) on December 25, 2014 with an outlay of Rs 900 crore.

• It aims at improving the quality of education at all levels by infusing quality and Excellence in teachers and teaching.

• The Mission addresses comprehensively all issues related to teachers, teaching, teacher preparation, professional development, curriculum design, designing and developing assessment & evaluation methodology, research in pedagogy and developing effective pedagogy.

The Mission consists of the following components:

i) Schools of Education in Central, State and Deemed Universities

ii) Centres of Excellence for Curriculum and Pedagogy

iii) Inter-University Centre for Teachers Education (IUCTE)

iv) National Resource Centre for Education (NRCE)

v) Centres of Academic Leadership and Education Management (CALEM) 

vi) Innovations, Awards and Teaching Resource Grant, including workshops and seminars (IATRG)

vii) Subject Networks for Curricular Renewal and Reforms (SBN)

viii) Induction training of newly recruited faculty

ix) National Resource Center

x) Leadership for Academic Programme (LEAP).

• The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 emphasizes the creation of motivated, energised, and capable faculty. The capacity building of teachers at all levels has been one of the major thrust areas in the field of higher education.

• The ministry of education has sought strengthening of the synergy and integration between HRDCs and PMMMNMTT centres in order to meet the objective of NEP 2020.

• The scheme is being designed to implement some of the recommendations and aims of the policy, which suggests some key changes to the current higher education system to revamp and re-energise it and thereby deliver high-quality higher education, with equity and inclusion.

• The Malaviya Mission scheme is named after Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, who was a freedom fighter.

• Malaviya was born in Allahabad in 1861. 

• He was an insightful educator, social reformer, journalist, a proficient lawyer, a statesman, and a learned scholar deeply rooted in ancient Indian culture.

• He was president of Indian National Congress (INC) in 1909 and 1918. He was one of the initial leaders of the right-wing Hindu Mahasabha.

• Malaviya was the founder of Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

• He was conferred the Bharat Ratna, the nation’s highest civilian honour, in 2015.

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