Briefing the media about this, Minister of State for Human Resource Development M M A Fatmi today said that there was no dearth of funds for promoting quality education in the country. Adding further he said that in the 11th Plan, the Centre decided to spend 6 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product in this field.

"The availability of eduction to all is our priority but on the same time we also need to ensure quality of the education provided to the students. I must confess that quality of teachers has been below par in the country and getting degraded with the time," he said, while speaking on the Foundation Day of the National Council for Teacher Education in the Capital.

Underlining the the role of NCTE in upgrading the teaching skills that subsequently increase the number of good teachers every year, Fatmi said, "The role of NCTE was greater in achieving the goal(of education)." Indicating that there is a huge disparity prevailing over the establishment of teacher training colleges in the country Fatmi said, "I came to know that Karnataka has more than 2000 training colleges and on the other hand Bihar has only 10 or 11."