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Teachers are asserts for a nation. They can contribute a lot for the social upliftment of the society. Teachers are made not born. In these days, it is not only the cognitive functioning which is needed, but more important is whether the teachers are emotionally matured and balanced. So only IQ of the teachers matters but the EQ is more important. So the present study is an attempt to study the emotional intelligence of teacher trainees who are being groomed to be the future nation builders. Further this paper measures the emotional intelligence of pupil teachers on the basis of gender and type of their teaching subjects. The descriptive method was used for conducting the present study. Sample for the present study consisted of 400 teacher trainees of Barnala and Sangrur districts. The data for emotional intelligence is collected by using Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory by Dr. S. K. Mangal and Mrs. Subhra Mangal(2009). For data analysis, the means, SDs and SEs were calculated. To compare the groups formed on the basis of gender and type of teaching subjects, t- ratios were calculated.