12,000 ITIs brought under Skill ministry

In a major decision, the Union government on Thursday transferred the Training and Apprenticeship verticals of the Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGET) from the Labour Ministry to the newly constituted Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. It means that nearly 12,000 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the country will now be governed by the Skill Development ministry. The government, however, did not transfer the Employment vertical of DGET, which governs all the employment exchanges in the country, from the Labour Ministry.

The control of ITIs, Employment Exchanges and Apprenticeship has been a point of contention between the Labour Ministry and Skill Development Ministry where the Labour Ministry wanted the Skill Development ministry to be a policy formulation agency while execution and implementation remained with the Labour Ministry.

With the transfer of the Training vertical, 26 “training of trainers” institutions will also come under the Skill Development ministry. The Rs 488 crore plan for setting up another 25 Advanced Training Institutes under the PPP mode will also move to the newly formed ministry. The National Council for Vocational Training also comes to the Skill ministry with this decision.

Source:: Indian Express