Translator Education is a major activity under NTM. It helps the main objective of NTM in many ways. First of all, it is dissemination of knowledge. People who participate in these programs spread the word. It also helps to reduce the differences of the quality of NTM translations in various languages and disciplines. New translators are discovered through these many programs too. The Mission takes the following initiatives in the area of translator education.

1. Organising short-term training programmes for specific purposes like interpretation, subtitling, translation of law, pure sciences, applied sciences, social sciences etc involving scholars/experts in the areas concerned;

2. Producing course modules and packages for translators that could be incorporated into language teaching programmes across the country or run as special courses during vacations, post-work or post-class hours etc ;

3. Encouraging, supporting and assisting the development of specialised courses in translation technology and related areas in universities and other institutions;

4. Encouraging research projects, including student research, intended specifically for making available good translations of identified texts as examples and generating resources that could also serve pedagogic purposes;

5. Instituting Fellowship programmes that would allow exchange of scholars between institutions with special emphasis on translation between Indian languages;

6. Organising workshops by taking up specific texts as examples where experts and trainees come together and discuss and solve specific issues relating to the text in terms of knowledge content, terminology, cultural and linguistic context etc. and,

7. Organising workshops in vetting, editing and copy-editing translations.