State Council of Educational Research and Training

Human Resources Development (HRD) is an area which requires preferred, even rather specialised attention and every effort made towards that direction is not only the need of the hour but to keep pace and parity with better performing states in this regard and to have uniformity . Education and allied issues are, in fact, directly related to the HRD and it is because of the need to implementation of policies and programmes of HRD in the field of education, human and child development, national integration etc, the Administrative Council has given approval for establishment of State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT). It is primarily done so that it could aid, advise and assist the UT Government in the process of implementation of policies on the analogy of NCERT- which is the national apex academic authority.
In other words, in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, we are to experience a better and pointed thrust on various basic but cardinal aspects of related issues of education. They are about the curriculum and its various aspects, health and physical education, guidance and counselling, inclusive and special education. Of these agreeably, we cannot ignore any factor but health and physical education, of late, has been considered not that important and that is why we hardly see students prompted to take active part in physical and health activities which primarily means sports. The other aspect which over the years has received little attention is as to how much a teacher is trained for academic resource support to schools. SCERT is, now required to take due care of that vital aspect. For quality education, building a sound infrastructure should see at the top impetus given to the aspects of the HRD and how teachers were tuned to face new challenges in the field by equipping them with proper orientation, trainings and exposures to better techniques for better performance and imparting quality education.