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Sponsored Teachers’ Training College, Purulia was established to impart quality and value based Teacher Education in 1964 by the West Bengal Government under the auspices of the ‘Women Development Scheme’ during the Third Five Year Plan vide G.O. No. 2318-Edn (G), dated the 6th July, 1964 as a Govt. Sponsored College with the name “Sponsored Teachers’ Training College for Women”. It started its journey from the academic session 1964-65 with an intake of 40 (forty) women trainee under affiliation of the Burdwan University. The Government of West Bengal has permitted the College for ‘Co-education’ teaching from the academic session 1969-70 with an increased intake of 200. The College has been renamed as “Sponsored Teachers’ Training College, Purulia”. Later on the college came under Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University from the academic session 2010-11. Recently it has come under the umbrella of The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration from the academic session 2018-20. The College has earned the NCTE Recognition and Revised Recognition to run the B.Ed. Course vide No. ERC/7-37(ER-37.6.1)/2003/1553(1); Dated the 11th August, 2003 and F.ERC/NCTE/APE00221/B.Ed.(Revised Order)/2015/32080; dated the 25th May, 2015 respectively and included under 2(f) & 12(B) of UGC Act.
Our institution aims at empowering the student teachers with the professional and social competencies to compete with the challenging world. It always attempts to do things differently by going beyond the prescribed B.Ed. syllabus of affiliating university. In doing so, it prepares the student teachers to face the challenges by equipping them with appropriate knowledge, experience, guidance and skills required in teaching – learning process. Over the year the Sponsored Teachers’ Training College, Purulia try to empowering them with latest teaching pedagogies, enabling them to be smart ICT users. We also empathetically stress on value education, gender sensitivity, inclusive education, environmental issues and concerns and over all personality enhancement of the student teachers.
The synergetic efforts of management, teaching staff, non-teaching staff and students, who have been working as a team with an excellent cooperation and zeal, proved as a great boon for this institution to grow from stature to strength in the pursuit of knowledge and excellence.
Dr Shyamal Kumar Biswas
Principal