College of Teacher Education (CTE), Asansol (West Bengal) is a Constituent College of Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad which was established in 2013 at Asansol West Bengal. The objective of MANUU - CTE, Asansol is to provide quality teacher education through Urdu medium. There are huge population of students in West Bengal who got their education through Urdu medium. So, MANUU - CTE, Asansol is getting its input from these Urdu knowing students and giving its output, successfully in the form of trained and qualified teachers to serve their services to the nation. At present, MANUU - CTE, Asansol is providing B.Ed. (Regular) 2 years course as per NCTE norms through Urdu medium. The College is established to meet the ever increasing needs of the Urdu Medium Secondary & Higher Secondary School Teachers particularly in West Bengal and the Nation as a whole. The College is situated in a quiet, peaceful, and scenic location in the heart of the Asansol Town. It is 1.5 km away from Asansol Railway Station. The college has a spacious building with required number of class rooms, well furnished Multipurpose Hall, and well equipped Science & Mathematics resource Centre, Psychology Lab, ICT Resource Centre, Art and Craft Resource Centre and facilities for Health and Physical Education activities etc. The Library is well furnished with 3500 books, and 19 journals. Further, the library is attached with a spacious reading room which can accommodate 50 students at a time. There are Visitors Room, Girl’s Common Room, Separate Toilets for both Boys and Girls, Parking space, Play Field, Administrative Office and Staff rooms etc., in the building. To safeguard the premises against fire hazard, desirable equipments have been installed in all parts of the building. There are un-interrupted Electricity and filtered drinking water facility available in the institution. Broadband Internet facility is too available for both students and faculty members.
The College of Teacher education through its programme intends to develop knowledge, skills and thereby to improve the overall personality of the students for making a useful member of the society. The objectives of the college envisaged are:

• To provide the students with sound theoretical knowledge so that they can apply it at the grass root level;
• To develop mind of the students which is more professional, intellectual and conforms to the recent required skills for the teaching profession;
• To transform students into knowledge workers so that they would take up teaching and allied professions in their future careers and thus help themselves and the society to be productive;
• To transform students into knowledge workers so that they would take up teaching and allied professions in their future careers and thus help themselves and the society to be productive;
• To provide innovative quality teacher education programmes through Urdu medium;
• To promote and extend the quality of teacher education programmes;
• To cater the needs of Urdu medium students by providing quality Teacher Education Programmes through Urdu medium;
• Provide quality teacher education to marginalized groups;
• To practically achieve the concepts of Equity, Equality and Accessibility in education;
• To empower women – educationally, socially, economically and politically by providing easily accessible teacher education programmes;
• To provide easily accessible quality teacher education for mainstreaming the students of backward classes, minority communities, SCs/STs etc;
• To enhance professional skills and competencies of the students-teachers;
• To acquaint the student-teachers with the impact of globalization on education;
• To preserve our socio-cultural heritage;
• To provide value oriented education to student-teachers;
• To make the student-teachers understand the nature and problems of secondary school children and to enable them to overcome these problems effectively;
• To develop adequate content competency in two school pedagogy subjects of specialization, so as to enable the student-teachers to select, organize and teach the subjects effectively;
• To understand the general functioning and organization of secondary schools and thereby acquire the ability to contribute towards effective curricular and co-curricular learning programmes in schools;
• To train them to the use the technology in classroom teaching;
• To develop competent, skilful, efficient and versatile teachers;
• To develop personality of prospective teachers by organizing different curricular & co-curricular activities;