Admission to two years Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El. Ed.) Course in Government and Private

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CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2023 (ASVINA 21, 1945 SAKA)

GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION

(EDUCATION-VII BRANCH)

NOTIFICATION

ADMISSION POLICY FOR 2 YEARS'

D.El.Ed. DIPLOMA COURSE

(Session 2023-25)

The 9th October, 2023

No. SED-EDU7013/2/2023/EDUCATION-7/I/659631/2023.–Admission to two years Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El. Ed.) Course in Government and Private affiliated institutions as per National Council for Teachers Education (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations 2014 through combined Entrance Test and combined merit, based on the result of the Entrance Test is to be undertaken by State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Vidya Bhawan, School Education Board, Block-E, 6th Floor, Mohali- 160062.

ACADEMIC SESSION: The Academic Session 2023-25 will commence after the culmination of the admission process.

MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

A. Candidates should have passed Graduation with minimum 50% marks in case of general category and 45% marks in the case of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes/ Backward Classes and Physically Handicapped candidates from a recognized institution. No candidate with Re-appear/Compartment/ Result later etc. in qualifying examination shall be eligible for admission.

B. Candidates must have passed Punjabi upto Matric level/ standard.

C. To ensure high quality standards, any candidate who has not passed in the subjects- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Science, Social Studies and Mathematics in Class X Examination shall not be eligible for admission to D. El.Ed course.

DURATION

The D.El. Ed. Programme shall be of duration of two academic years; however, the students shall be permitted to complete the programme within a maximum period of three years from the date of admission to the programme.

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WORKING DAYS

(a) There shall be at least two hundred working days each year, exclusive of the period of examination and admission

(b) The institutions shall work for a minimum of 36 hours in a week, during which physical presence of all the teachers and student teachers is necessary in the institution to ensure the availability for advice, guidance, dialogue and consultation as and when needed.

(c) The minimum attendance of student teacher shall be 80% for all course work including practicum and 90% for school internship.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Selection of the candidates will be done on the basis of merit in the Entrance Test. The minimum marks to qualify this Entrance Test will be 50% in aggregate and 5% relaxation to qualify Entrance test will be given to the reserve categories as per the guidelines of the Government of Punjab. The Entrance Test will be conducted by SCERT Punjab. The date of Entrance Test, syllabus and structure of the Entrance Test will be uploaded on the website of the Department.

MAXIMUM AGE

Maximum age limit as on date of application for admission to the course for General Category candidate will be 36 years as per the decision of Hon'ble Punjab and Haryana High Court vide LPA No. 448 of 2015 State of Punjab and another Vs. Wazir Kaur and another dated 31.03.2015 with five years age relaxation for SC/ST Candidates.

RESERVATION

The reservation in seats and relaxation in the qualifying marks in favour of reserved categories shall be as per the rules/ policy of the Punjab Government.

TIE

In case of a tie in merit of Entrance Test, preference wi11 be given to a candidate older in age. In case of further tie of such candidates, preference will be given to candidate having higher marks in graduation.

ONLINE APPLICATION & PROCESSING FEE

Rs. 1000/- for General Category/ BC/ O.B. C./Freedom Fighter/Sports/EWS

Rs. 500/- for SC/ ST / Handicapped Category

No Fee for Ex- Serviceman (Self)

COUNSELING, SCRUTINY AND VERIFICATION

Online counselling will be held for admission for the academic session 2023-25, consisting of three phases.

Director, SCERT, Punjab shall supervise the whole counselling/admission process. For every district a committee shall be formed under the Principal of DIET (or a senior Lecturer in that DIET) consisting of 2 lecturers of that DIET and District MIS Co-ordinator. This committee will ensure smooth completion of counselling process and shall scrutinize the documents of the candidates who are provisionally allotted their institute through online centralized counselling. Three phases of online counselling will be held to complete the admission process.

FI LLING OF D.El.Ed. SEATS IN PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS

60% of seats in private institutions will be filled on the basis of combined merit of Entrance Test through centralized online counselling by the SCERT, remaining 40% of seats of management quota of private institutions based upon the result of the combined Entrance Test also will be filled by the concerned institutions subject to fulfilment of other minimum qualification mentioned in this Notification with the prior approval of the Director SCERT.

In case above mentioned 60% of seats in private institutions are not filled in all three counsellings through centralized merit based counselling conducted by SCERT, the vacant seats of the concerned private institute will be allowed to be filled up by the private institutions themselves subject to fulfilment of minimum qualification mentioned in this Notification from amongst only those who have qualified combined Entrance Test with the prior approval of the Director SCERT.

FEES

The Private Self-Financed D.El. Ed. institutions will charge fees as determined by the fee fixation committee and approved by the Department of School Education, Govt. of Punjab.

ADMISSION NO GUARANTEE TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT

Admission to government or privately run D.El.Ed. Diploma Course or passing of the said course shall not confer any right to employment upon the recipient of such a diploma in the employment of the state or elsewhere.

For admission in D.El. Ed. course in Punjab, applications shall be sought online from candidates and the counselling shall also be done online. Seats are allotted in various DIETs on the basis of merit in combined Entrance Test. During the process the seats allotted to the trainers may at times be far away from their home town, therefore, the department receives applications regarding migrations from various sources throughout the year. A migration policy has been framed to rationalize this process: -

• This policy has been made keeping in view the need to implement the regular migration policy of the department to ensure opportunity to the trainees in Punjab DIETs to get educational facilities near their homes

• Under this policy, the trainees studying in self financed (private) colleges affiliated with S.C.E.R.T. will not be entitled to migration.

• Under this policy, only the trainees of first year in D.El.Ed. course will be eligible for migration. The trainees of second year in D.El.Ed. course will not be eligible for migration.

• This policy will apply on mutual and single migration cases.

• Single migration will be done purely on merit basis. In case the number of applications in a category are more, migration will be done according to the merit.

• The data regarding vacant seats in DIETs will be provided by these DIETs to the Directorate of SCERT within three days from the date of last and final counselling for the purpose of admission in the First Year. As a consequence of the data regarding vacant seats, the Directorate SCERT would upload this data on the web site within seven days from the date of receipt of this data and subsequently will invite applications for migration.

• The candidates interested in migration may thereafter apply for migration online with one week from the date of Public Notice.

• Migration will be done according to the categories. That is if a general category seat is vacant in DIET then only a general category trainee will be migrated to that seat. The same applies to other categories like SC category trainee is eligible for SC category seat, BC category trainee is eligible for BC category seat, Ex Service man category trainee is eligible for Ex Service man category seat, Freedom Fighter category trainee is eligible for Freedom Fighter category seat, Handicapped category trainee is eligible for Handicapped category seat.

• ln mutual migration cases, both trainees will be migrated only after receiving written consent from the concerned heads of the institution. This will also be done category wise.

• The government holds the authority to give preference to the handicapped and trainees suffering from chronic diseases.

• Students with long absence will not be considered for migration.

NO MID-TERM FILLING OF SEATS

There shall be no mid-term filling up of vacancies caused due to any reason whatsoever.

FALSE DOCUMENTS

The admission of any candidate found to have obtained on the basis of false, forged, fabricated or tampered document shall be liable to be cancelled at any stage, besides registering a criminal case against him/her and barring him/her for re-admission in D.El.Ed for a period of three years.

In case of any dispute, the final decision will be taken by the Director SCERT.

KAMAL KISHOR YADAV, IAS

Chandigarh

Secretary to Govt. of Punjab The 9th October, 2023

Department of School Education

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