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This paper is an endeavor to discuss the issues and difficulties faced by novice school teachers starting out their teaching career and profession. The beginning years of school teachers are like sink or swim and they the face physiologically, psychologically and often culturally difficult situations to go ahead and handle especially in culturally, geographically, and demographically diverse societies as India has and present time which is the age of technology and knowledge explosion. Now only subject mastery is not enough to deal with teaching but it needs expertise in various fields as management, administration, decision making, policy making, pedagogy, scientific and technical knowledge, educational psychology, guidance and counseling, educational philosophy, educational sociology, prevailing national and global educational system and its history, knowledge about working condition, environment, culture, history and aims and objectives of the institution as well as society, demography and culture of that region and background of their students and a lot more. Therefore, beginning years are difficult and crucial for novice teachers to handle and retain and sustain in the profession. That is why attrition rate of teachers are more than other professions as engineering, medicine, management, administration, policy making and tourism etc. It may not be surprising to anyone that new teachers often speak of just struggling to survive during their initial years of teaching. The paper focuses on the role of induction and mentoring in supporting new teachers retaining and helping them sustain in the profession. Researchers have proven that support and help in initial periods of teaching have always played a positive role in sustaining and retaining novice teachers in the profession.