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TMDC to run coaching class for Dalits, women for licence [ 2007-3-16 ] MADHAYPUR Thimi, March 15: Trained Dalit teachers who are unable to attain pre-service teaching training will be passed in the exam for teaching license under the Higher Secondary Education Development Programme. The Teaching Manpower Development Center (TMDC) is set to run a separate coaching class for the Dalits and Women sitting for the exam for teaching license. As training manpower is going waste, such coaching training has been conducted to bring them into teaching profession, said Chief of the Teachers' Education Project, Shiva Kumar Sapkota. Although 1500 Dalits and women have attained the 10-day training conducted with the support of donor agencies, only 150 women are involved in teaching profession. The donor agencies are concerned over low presence of trained manpower in teaching profession, according to chief Sapkota. It is weakness on the part of trained personnel himself for not joining teaching profession despite having training with allowance , it is said . So far, only 57 percent teachers of the total 97 percent are Dalits and the rest are women. Presently, 1,000 more participants are attaining the training. The programme that was to last till 2008 is also set to form a pressure group at local level to bring the trained manpower into teaching profession.
