MSDE Ministry introduces new affiliation norms for ITIs

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New Delhi : The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has introduced new affiliation/accreditation norms to reinvigorate the ITI ecosystem by emphasising on its qualitative aspect.

The 13,912 ITIs spread across India ( as on October 30, 2017) offer hands-on technical and skill training churning out a large number of employable youth. The new norms aim to ensure that the procedural and civil norms are strictly adhered to in all the existing and new ITIs to curb the mushrooming of unauthorized institutes across India and to improve the overall quality of these institutes, according to a PIB release.

The salient features of the new affiliation norms for ITIs are : Civil and infrastructural requirements have been majorly overhauled ( minimum requirement for building ITIs has been reduced), application and assessment stage for ITIs has also been made digital to simplify the process, contenders can apply and receive acknowledgement online, a new ITI can be set up with 4 trades and the minimum plot size will be around 1 acre to accommodate all technical requirements, land lease period has also been reduced to 10 years to assist entrepreneurs aspiring to enter the long-term training space.

While designing these norms, efforts were made to standardize the Civil infrastructure of ITIs so that the institutes across the country have similar buildings and facilities. The procedure for seeking affiliation has also been redefined to make it simpler and transparent by dividing it into a 3-stage process i.e. 1st stage: Desktop Assessment, 2nd stage: Civil Infrastructure Assessment, 3rd stage: Equipment, power, IT lab and other Infrastructure Assessment.

A very rigorous process of checking the ITIs have been undertaken to rule out the ones which are not performing as per expectations or where the desired number of students are not enrolled. This has resulted in the de-affiliation of around 385 ITIs in the last 5 years.