It is a statutory body of Indian government set up under the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 in 1995 is to formally oversee standards, procedures and processes in the Indian education system. This council functions for the central as well as state governments on all matter with regard to the Teacher Education and its secretariat is located in the Department of Teacher Education and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Despite the successful functioning in terms of educational field, it is facing difficulties in ensuring the maintenance of the standards of teacher education and preventing the increase in the number of substandard teacher education institutions in the country.

The SCERT of UP was established at Lucknow in 1981 as an apex government organization at the state level. It is not an autonomous body. Its roles and functions are primarily concerned with ensuring quality in respect of planning, management, research. evaluation and training at the school level. with a view to effecting suitable changes in policy formulation and policy implementing strategies, the SCERT has been identified as a lead institution. The principal areas of its preoccupations center on the overall improvement of the policies and programmes of school education in general and the elementary education in particular.As such the commitment to avowed objective of achieving universalization of elementary education and congruent with it the various action programmes become a significant and critical domain of the projects and activities of the SCERT. This goal is accomplished through its various organizational units.

The university is a state university established on 17 June 2016 by the government of Uttar Pradesh in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. It is a residential-cum-affiliating University. University began its first season in 2016-17 at 562 colleges of Prayagraj, Kaushambi, Fatehpur and Pratapgarh. These 562 colleges of Prayagraj, Kaushambi, Fatehpur and Pratapgarh were formerly affiliated to Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad.

District Institute for Education and Training (DIET) are district-level educational institutes which have been established in each district of India by the Indian government. They help in coordinating and implementing government policies at district level. About 3 million primary and elementary teachers need recurrent orientation to innovations in teaching and learning at the school level.

DIETs have been established as centres of guidance for educational institutes and schools of a district. They also work as a platform for research and experimental work in the educational domain. It also organizes programmes to train teachers in new innovation.