$1-bn spend to train teachers key for India: Narayana Murthy
Suggests govt to invite 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world to create 2,500 Train the Teacher colleges across the country
We should pay about $100,000 a year for each of these retired teachers. This 20-year programme will cost us $1 bn a year and $20 bn for 20 years. Our nation, targeting a GDP of $5 trillion soon, will not find it a big financial burden - NR Narayana Murthy, trustee, Infosys Science Foundation
Bengaluru: Software icon NR Narayana Murthy on Wednesday called for spending $1 billion a year to train school teachers by 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India in STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). This course alone is not sufficient, Murthy said.
“We must show much respect and pay better salaries to our teachers and researchers. We must also provide better facilities to our researchers. We must honour them. They are role models for our youngsters. That is why we instituted the Infosys Prize in 2009. It is our small contribution to further the cause of research in India,” he added.
One possible way of accelerating NEP’s (National Education Policy) outcome is to invite 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India in STEM areas to create 2,500 ‘Train the Teacher’ colleges in the country’s 28 states and eight union territories, Murthy said.
This training programme should be year-long, he said in his remarks at a press conference here, where the Infosys Science Foundation announced the Infosys Prize 2023 in six categories.
