Narayana Murthy Says This Is How Much India Should Spend To Train Teachers

Bengaluru: 

Software icon N R Narayana Murthy on Wednesday called for spending USD one 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, Narayana 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,

This training programme should be year-long, he said in his remarks at a press conference, where the Infosys Science Foundation announced the Infosys Prize 2023 in six categories.

“Experts tell me that each set of four trainers can train 100 primary school teachers and 100 secondary school teachers a year. We will be able to train 250,000 primary school teachers and 250,000 secondary school teachers every year by this method,” the founder of Infosys said. These trained Indian teachers can themselves become trainers over a period of five years.

Murthy said.