The government today introduced in the Lok Sabha a bill seeking to amend the Right to Education Act to allow elementary teachers time till 2019 to get acquire minimum qualifications as mandated under the 2010 law. <br/><br/><br/>The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2017 has been brought as the state governments were not able to continue the training process for in-service untrained teachers and had requested for extending the training period. <br/><br/><br/>The expenditure related to training of untrained teachers would come from the approved allocation under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme. The amount would be shared between the Centre and the states concerned.