Chandigarh: Haryana is pushing a major industry-linked overhaul of its skill-training ecosystem, with 60 government ITIs across 12 clusters slated for upgradation, courses in artificial intelligence, drones, electric vehicles, cyber security, semiconductors and green hydrogen being introduced, and more than 4.73 lakh apprentices engaged since 2016-17.
The review of the Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs (PM-SETU) and the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) focused on making vocational training more responsive to emerging technologies and actual industry demand, while widening apprenticeships and employment linkages.
Industry partners will also help identify emerging job roles, redesign existing courses, develop new programmes, bring industry experts and master trainers into ITIs, modernise workshops, laboratories and digital classrooms and create pipelines for apprenticeships, on-the-job training and placements.
The institutional framework for monitoring and execution is already in place. District Apprenticeship Committees have been constituted under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioners, and dedicated apprenticeship and placement cells are operational at government ITIs. These district committees are mandated to review progress on a quarterly basis, including industry participation, apprentice engagement and resolution of operational bottlenecks.
