Our Establishment History
Basic Training Centre, Dergaon was established in the year 1962.At the time of the establishment of this institute, the MLA of Dergaon Constituency was Late Naren Sarmah. The people of Dergaon shall always remember his name and remain indebted to him for his contribution towards establishing this institute. Due to his diligent endeavor 60 Bighas of government land was sanctioned to establish the Dergaon Basic Training Centre. It is said that some people were against and opposed its establishment in its present place claiming the location was flood prone. But after overcoming many such hurdles the institute was finally established in the year 1962.
After its establishment, there was no looking back and the first batch of in-service teachers training was started on 1st of August 1962 with strength of 100 male teacher trainees. Late Ram Charan Deka was the founder Principal of this institute. Later in 1963 the government approved the centre as the Female trainees institute of the state. During the period of 1962 to 1978 this centre conducted many batches of 1 year in service and 2 year Pre- service trainings. But later restricted to only in-service training. This centre conducted D.El.Ed. in ODL mode in the year 2017-2019 and the curriculum of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) was taught here and given D.El.Ed. training parallely. In the year 2008-2010, this centre conducted IGNOU Study Centre also. Previously, Basic Training Centers were under Elementary Education from 1962-1990 and later from 1991, it has been running under Directorate of SCERT, Assam, Guwahati.
Gandhiji’s ‘Naitalim’ was the inspiration of such Basic Training Centres of the country. These centers were purely residential. There were fully furnished quarters for Principals and instructors and residing there was compulsory. In this training centre there were two Girl’s hostel, which are now occupied by RSTC under North Education Block, Golaghat, Dergaon. The day started with cleaning the campus and morning prayers. The day ends with evening prayers.
Presently this centre conducts Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) and both male and female pre-service trainees are trained here. BTC strives to develop and train young trainees, acquainting them with the general and specific duties and responsibilities of a teacher and also tries to instill moral values in them
Objective of Establishment
Objective of Basic Training Centre is to improve quality education of pre-service and in-service teacher trainees to prepare themselves to act as a good teacher in future.
Our Mission
Role of Basic training Centre is to provide basic training to in-service teachers previously and provide training for Diploma in Elementary Education to pre-service training for teacher at present.
This centre also abides and participates on all the various training programmes bestowed upon us by SSA and District Administration.
