Agartala, August 22 (TIWN): Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya today proposed state government to extend national integration and value based education to schools and college education in rural areas of the state.

The Governor met vice chancellors of five universities of Delhi, Karnataka and Maharashtra to initiate exchange programmes for training teachers from schools and colleges of distant areas of Tripura to other states. Governor Padmanabha proposed the issue in a meeting with Chief Executive Member of ADC and Education Directors. The Governor suggested that teachers of schools and colleges at remote areas of the state would be sent on deputation for training and teaching to a set of educational institutions of the other towns or cities of the country for a month. Teachers of the concerned institutions would come to teach in Tripura for a month as well, he proposed.
Governor Acharya today said that the proposal might be devised in a way to exchange teachers of Hindi, English and Science in the first phase.
He said that all stakeholders consulted as a part of the exchange programme agreed with the proposal.
He said that he wanted to introduce the plan from the current academic year.