To acquire required qualification by 2019  

• Fifteen lakh untrained school teachers have enrolled for a training course with the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
• AIM: to get themselves trained by 2019 to be able to retain their jobs.
• NIOS: An autonomous institution under the Ministry of Human Resource Development

• This has happened just after Parliament passed an amendment to the Right to Education Act to offer them a last window to acquire proper training, something seen as essential to the provision of quality education in government and private schools.
• The course will be offered through ‘Swayam’, a platform for online education, imparting knowledge through Dish TV.