Abstract
It has long been debated in India that a nation's education depends for its excellence on the quality of its teachers. The purpose of this paper is to study and consider the quality of primary teacher training at the District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) in Delhi and Haryana. The discussion in this paper is based on the results of a questionnaire administered by the author in 1998-1999 to successful recent students at DIETS in Motibagh, Delhi, and Gurgaon, Haryana; interviews with Government officials and educators responsible for school education; and published reports of the Government of India.
