Itanagar, Nov 26 (PTI): Arunachal Pradesh has appealed to the Centre to set up a state Council of Educational Research and Training to give a boost to education set-up in the State.
Education Minister Bosiram Siram told Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal in New Delhi yesterday that an autonomous body should be entrusted with planning, implementation and evaluation of all academic programmes that would give new direction to school education.
The minister also sought a 'special package' to train untrained teachers, officials said here today.
"Frequent change of NCERT textbooks causes lot of hardship to students," the minister said while addressing the 48th General Council Meeting of NCERT in New Delhi.
