DIETs are essential district-level institutions that contribute considerably to the devleopment of teachers. for teacher education reform initiatives, it is essential to comprehend the functioning of DIETs at the micro, macro and meso levels, as well as their functions and academic significance in relation to the state education system. The main objectives of the study, are to examine the design, adoption, and implementation of the existing pre-service curriculum to inform future curricula; the institutional features of infrastructure and staffing in terms of needs, availability, and use to facilitate the operation and activities of DIETs as major institutes for academic growth and growth of district-level teachers.

Dr. Bindu Thirumalai is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE), TISS, Mumbai. She has completed her PhD, MPhil and MA degrees in Education from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and a Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA) from Bangalore University. Bindu has over ten years of field experience facilitating in-service teacher programmes operating at scale in government high school contexts. She co-conceptualised and coordinated the short term certificate programme 'Reflective Teaching with ICT (RTICT)' offered in an online or blended mode for teacher's professional development from its inception in 2017 to 2020. She has designed and developed MOOC based courses on ICT and Education, Mentoring for Teacher Professional Development and Action Research as a part of the RTICT programme.