Capacity Building of Teachers: The Promise and Pathways of NEP 2020

This review-based article explores the opportunities NEP 2020 presents for teacher capacity building, while also addresses the challenges ahead, such as infrastructure limitations, digital literacy gaps, and ensure equitable access to training centres across regions. Several reports show positive results where teacher training was integrated with proper capacity building programme as envisioned by NEP 2020. Along with NEP 2020 various government reports, case studies from few states and research articles related to teacher’s professional development is reviewed. The study starts with a brief articulation of teachers’ needs in professional development or capacity building for quality education and concludes with some critical remarks on the issue being explored and some practical suggestions for more effective capacity development programme.