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Motivation is those factors that energize teachers to remain interested in and committed to the job of teaching and to the goal of maximizing student learning (Chandra, 2015). The dreary records of student achievements in the country imply low teacher motivation. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the studies that look into the issues concerning teacher motivation and mitigating interventions suggested. In the paper, we found that there is a clear inclination in the literature to use monetary incentives to improve teacher motivation. The paper explores some of these interventions. It highlights the drawbacks of these borrowed interventions and the limitations to their applicability in the Indian context. The review goes beyond the conventional studies to explore the efficacy of professional and intrinsic motivation derived from non monetary incentives. We find that intrinsic motivators are as relevant as the extrinsic motivators and might even be more pertinent in the Indian context