Bhubaneswar, May 12: Samarthya, a state-level integrated in-service training package for teachers, was inaugurated by the school and mass education department yesterday at the Unit I Boys High School here.

The teachers’ training would run in five phases and would be conducted at two levels — Samarthya-I at the state-level and Samarthya-II at the block-level. At least 1,72,982 teachers are expected to be trained at primary and upper primary stages, and another 55,000 teachers at the high school level. The purpose of this training is to keep teachers up-to-date with the changing syllabi. The training would also cover teachers from schools running under the ST and SC department. At present, it is being conducted at six centres in the capital with a target to train 7,608 teachers in a month.

The teachers would be trained in Oriya, mathematics, modern Indian languages, English, history, science, geography, right to education and national curriculum framework. This programme has been organised by the pedagogy department of the Orissa Primary Education Promotion Authority and State Council Educational Research and Training (SCERT).