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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of in-service teachers is vital to quality teacher education. Countries world over are adopting different policies, strategies, methods, techniques and modalities to help their teachers to engage in fruitful training programmes. Keeping in view various shortcomings in the training programmes, continuing lifelong professional learning of teachers is given prime importance. The present study throws light on various suggestive measures to enhance the quality of training programmes. A sample of 4 Principals and 51 Teacher Educators of DIETs from four Districts namely, Shimla, Solan, Bilaspur and Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh and further, a sample of 60 head teachers and 480 in-service teachers of upper primary schools was also selected from four Districts namely, Shimla, Solan, Bilaspur and Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh. The survey method of research was used and self-developed questionnaires were used for the present study. It has been found in the present study that principals and teacher educators suggested to utilise the feedback for improving future training programmes, emphasized that training must focus on e-learning, focussed on making provisions for online training sessions for in-service teachers and avoidance of the repeated teachers for the training to enhance quality in the in-service teacher training programmes conducted by DIETs. Furthermore, head teachers and in-service teachers suggested that during in-service teacher training programmes importance should be given to all the subjects of upper primary classes and if possible, training must be conducted during holidays so that their teaching schedule is not disturbed. Moreover, it was also suggested that current problems in teaching-learning process must be highlighted in the training programmes.