For the purpose of achieving quality education and to remove the backlog of untrained teachers and with the implementation of National Policy of Education (N.P.E.) in 1986, the District Institute of Education and Training were established all over the country. In Meghalaya also, DIETs were set up in all Districts on the recommendation of the National Council of Teacher Education (N.C.T.E.) mainly to provide services in the areas like training, resource support and research in Education. DIET, Sohra is one such Institute set up in Meghalaya. It is located at Saitsohpen, which is about 53 Kms from the State capital Shillong. This Institute was started in September 2000 and it became operationalised in 2001.

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