DIET plays an important role as a district level academic nodal institution to conduct both pre-service and in-service training of the teachers.
A need based training both for short term and long term is conducted in the DIET and it supports to the teachers in professional and leadership development.
As a district level institution it provides scope for the teachers, teacher educators and the teacher trainees to undertake action research.
The main function of DIET is to train and orient the teachers and to make them aware of the new pedagogy and innovations.
Pre-service and in-service teacher education is the main function of DIET.
Academic and resource support to the teachers.
Organise training prog for continuous professional development of the teachers.
Curriculum and material development and extension activities.
Evaluation and monitoring of the quality education of the schools.
Collaboration with different stakeholders
As a resource centre DIET plays an important role.
Community engagement is an important function of DIET.