Skill Ministry Forms Panel for ITI Upgrade

The Centre has formed a national steering committee (NSC), comprising representatives from various ministries and the industry, to come up with guidelines and a broad policy framework to transform skilling infrastructure in India — which include upgrading of 1,000 ITIs and setting up five National Centres of Excellence for Skilling.

- SHIVA RAJORA

The panel was formed by the skill development and entrepreneurship ministry on July 7.

"We want to move beyond funding. We want the industry to shape the curriculum, certification, and training standards. This is how we create employable youth and make ITIs future-ready," Skill Development Minister Jayant Chaudhary said last week against the backdrop of the formation of the panel.

Chaudhary has also said that states have been told to identify the ITIs and come up with bids for the policy.

The Union cabinet had in May approved a new ₹60,000 crore industrial training institute (ITI) upgradation scheme, with focus on 1,000 government ITIs in hub and spoke arrangement with industry-aligned revamped trades with a target to skill over two million youth.