2 year B.Ed course closed across the country, now one can become a teacher only after four years special course

The two-year special B.Ed course now running across the country has been stopped forever. From the next academic session 2024-2025, only a four-year special B.Ed course will be recognized. The Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) has issued a notice in this regard. Only RCI recognizes the special B.Ed courses being conducted in various educational institutions across the country. RCI has made it clear in its circular. Let us tell you that there are about 1000 such institutes/universities in the entire country, where this course is being offered.

In a circular issued by Vikas Trivedi, Secretary, Rehabilitation Council of India, RCI, it has been said that NCTE has made a provision for a four-year B.Ed program in the Integrated Teachers Education Program (ITEP) under the New Educational Policy (NEP) 2020. Given this, RCI has also decided to run only a four-year B.Ed course. From the coming session, only four-year B.Ed (Special Education) courses will be recognized by RCI.

Actually, in the special B.Ed course, teachers are given training to teach disabled children. Training in this course is given keeping in mind the special needs of disabled children. This syllabus is conducted for people with disabilities like hearing, speech, visual impairment, mental disability etc. RCI has said that any institutions which want to offer a four-year integrated B.Ed special education course (like the four-year ITEP course of NCTE) will be able to apply for the next academic session.

It is being told that NCTE is preparing a new syllabus for the special B.Ed integrated course. RCI will implement this course. The syllabus of NCTE is being designed specifically according to the needs of the students. In this regard, Dr. Yashwant Veeroday, spokesperson of Dr. Shakuntala Mishra National Rehabilitation University, Lucknow, says that the decision regarding the future of the two-year B.Ed (Special Education) course will be taken in the executive council meeting of the university.