No subject can be properly developed without the regular production of relevant subject teachers.The status of health and environmental education teachers is yet to be considered by NCTE.

1. STATUS OF HEALTH EDUCATION &
ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION TEACHERS
• BY
• DEVINDER KUMAR KANSAL,
• M.Sc.,Ph.D.(Human Biology )& Specialist, Sports Science
• Retired Principal,
• INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL
EDUCATION & SPORTS SCIENCES,
• UNIVERSITY OF DELHI.
• 18.4.2016

2. NON EXISTENT TEACHERS
• Surprising , but true no teachers are being
produced in India for the schools and colleges for
the teaching of following compulsory subjects
(mainly due to unmeasured & non accountability
for educational justice to students as well as due
to monopolies given to universities):-
• 1. Health Education
• 2. Environment Education
• 3.Eclectic Education
• 4. Lifestyle Education

3. NON EXISTENT ESSENTIAL DEGREES
• Majority of the Indian universities are not
awarding any of the following degrees and are
unconscious about the requirement of
teachers :-
• 1. B.Sc. (Health Education)
• 2. B.Sc. ( Environmental Education)
• 3. B.Sc. (Lifestyle Education)
• 4. B.Sc. (Eclectic Education)

4. NON EXISTENT NORMS & STANDARDS
• NCTE is yet to establish norms and standards for the
teachers needed in following essential subject being
taught and needed to be taught in schools of India :-
1. Health Education
• 2. Environment Education
• 3.Eclectic Education
• 4. Lifestyle Education
• This may be expedited only when any permanent staff
is attached to National Council of Teacher Education to
do research on the requirement of teachers & the
quality of teachers for existing subjects in schools , in
line with the academic staff provided to NCERT.

5. NON EXISTENCE OF IMPLEMENTATION
SYSTEMS
• NACC is yet to include compliance section in their self-
assessment accreditation criteria format used. This
omission is allowing universities to get Grade A/B
without complying to national policy on education,
without complying to Human Rights Commission , and
without complying to UNESCO Charter of Physical
Education & Sports (1978/2015).
• All autonomous bodies must be put under the control
of some Bureau of Educational Standards where
experts of educational measurement and evaluation
are made the only experts unlike the Chairpersons of
NAAC , NCTE and other accrediting & regulatory bodies
.

6. NON EXISTENT MANAGEMENT OF
HIGHER EDUCATION
• Proper management of excellence in higher
education is possible only by creating Road
Maps of ideal school, college, & universities
and their model course contents.
• The above position is yet to be created by
introducing Innovation Centers in each
university and by holding competition among
them for the presentation of best Road Maps
for educational institutions.

7. NON EXISTENCE CENTERS OF
APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE
• Public may be best served only after the
creation of Centers of Application of
Knowledge’s Eclecticism(CAKES).
• UGC may take the initiative to ask all the
universities to create a CAKE for the assistance
of their Extension Services Departments so
that whatever applied knowledge is created at
each university, it could be swiftly put to the
benefits of the general public.

8. CONCLUSION
• The implementation of the ideas presented on
the basis of authentic research conducted and
supervised by the author may help to
overcome the traffic-jam like situation in the
educational reforms.
• This will be in line with the philosophies of
great educationists like Mahatma Gandhi,
Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghosh, Jack Mezirow,
• Etc.