• The NCTE headquarters is located at G-7, Sector-10, Dwarka, Near Metro Station, New Delhi – 110075. It is headed by the Chairperson, NCTE. He is assisted by the Vice-Chairperson, the Member-Secretary and various other officers to look after academic, regulatory and administrative matters. The headquarters is mainly responsible for laying down policy guidelines, norms and standards for various teacher education programmes, conducting and promoting research andinnovations in teacher education and performing various other academic functions as envisaged in section 12 of the NCTE Act 1993.

  and consideration of appeals under section 18 of the NCTE Act.

Authorities of NCTE

• Chairperson	Professor Pankaj Arora
  Member-Secretary	Ms. Abhilasha Jha Misra, IRAS

The Council

• The National Council for Teacher Education, commonly known as the Council or the General Body of the NCTE, is constituted by the Government of India under Section 3 of the NCTE Act. It is the highest decision-making body of the NCTE. It lays down policy, frames regulations and takes final decisions on various aspects of the mandate given to it under the NCTE Act.

List of Council Members

• (i) against serial number 1 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  “1. Professor Pankaj Arora

  Chairperson”;

  
  

  (ii) against serial number 3 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  
  

  (iii) against serial numbers 16 and 17 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  “16. Smt. Indu Prasad, Director, School of Education and School of Continuing Education and University Resource Centre, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru	Member
  17. Prof. Nain Singh, Dean, Faculty of Education, Himachal Pradesh University	Member”

  
  

  (iv) against serial number 20 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  “20. Prof. (Retd.) Dr. Chand Kiran Saluja, Central Institute of Education, Delhi University; Samskrit Promotion Foundation, Delhi	Member”
  17. Prof. Nain Singh, Dean, Faculty of Education, Himachal Pradesh University	Member”

  
  

  (v) against serial numbers 21, 22 and 23 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  “21. Prof. Dusi Ramakrishna Rao, Director, Vijnana Vihara Educational Society, Gudilova, Visakhapatnam	Member
  22. Prof. (Retd.) Sudhakar Venukapalli, D/o Education, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad	Member
  23. Dr. Sruti Mohapatra, Special Education; Founder and Festival Director – Anjali International Children’s Festival, Bhubaneswar	Member”;

  
  

  (vi) against serial number 24 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  “24. Shri Gajanan Londhe, Executive Director, Samvit Research Foundation, Bangalore

  Member”;

  
  

  (vii) against serial numbers 26 and 27 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  “26. Prof. (Retd.) Neelima Bhagwati, Education, Guwahati University	Member
  27. Shri Vineet Nayar, Former Chief Executive Officer, HCL Technologies; Founder, Sampark Foundation	Member”;

  
  

  (viii) against serial numbers 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 37 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  “29. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Andaman and Nicobar	Member
  30. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Madhya Pradesh	Member
  31. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Gujarat	Member
  32. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Haryana	Member
  33. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Karnataka	Member
  34. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Uttar Pradesh	Member
  35. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Sikkim	Member
  36. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Assam	Member
  37. Education Secretary (in-charge of Teacher Education) or Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Tripura	Member

  
  

  (ix) against serial number 38 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

  “38. Shri Vipin Kumar, Principal, Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Sr. Secondary School, Ghaziabad.

  Member”.