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This paper intends to identify the level of research competency of teacher educators at secondary level and compare the level of research competency of teacher educators in relation to gender, experience and qualification in Jharkhand. The method used was descriptive survey. The sample for the study was 200 teacher educators selected randomly from 40 teacher education institutes. The data was collected by using self-developed rating scale. The analysis was done by using SPSS and various non-parametric tests. The study found that there is no significant difference in research competency of male and female teacher educators. But there is a significant difference in the research competency of educators with regard to experience and qualification. This study suggested for conducting more and more capacity building programmes, research methodology courses, workshop, seminar, writing papers, training, self-study, online courses for improving research competency of teacher educators.