Welcome to District Institute of Education & Training, Meghalaya

DIETs were envisioned in the NPE, 1986, and were created by the Government of India, MHRD in the early 1990s to strengthen elementary education and support the decentralization of education to the district level. DIETs were conceived as the third addition- district level- tier to the support system, which would be closer to the field, and therefore more alive to its problems and needs.

The DIET is located at an important level of decentralization - the District. However, they have remained marginal to the key activities of the States in teacher professional development and school improvement; they are inadequately integrated into the State’s systems. There is, therefore, a need to reformulate the vision of this institution so that DIETs can contribute to fulfilling the mandate under the RTE Act in matters relating to continuous teacher professional development, school support and improvement.


Role & Functions of DIET:

  • DIET would be nodal institution at the district level to transact pre-service and/or in-service training up to Senior Secondary level.
  • DIET would also be responsible for in-service training of school teachers (Classes 1 to 12), if there is no CTE for the district or the existing CTE is not able to fulfil the requirement due to inadequate capacity in relation to the total number of teachers to be trained.
  • DIET would also organise and support teacher professional development and leadership development programs for Head Masters, senior teachers, and School Management Committees.
  • DIET would serve as an Education Resource Centre for the district in conjunction with BITEs, BRCs and CRCs.
  • Addressing district specific material development, action research programs for special groups in the District.
  • Developing district academic plans and monitoring the quality of schools and teaching.
  • Designing interventions for direct support to schools and work with special groups in the district.