Survey reveals 30% ITI grads still jobless

Despite industry having preference from government trained manpower about 30% of the pass-outs failed to get a job in 2009 after getting vocational training from public sector institutes, a government survey has found.

Updated on: Nov 9, 2011, 02:11:26 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Despite industry having preference from government trained manpower about 30% of the pass-outs failed to get a job in 2009 after getting vocational training from public sector institutes, a government survey has found.

The reason, according to a survey done by ministry of labour, says that non-availability of jobs or low salary were the two prime reasons for high unemployment rate in Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs). Most of the trainees were found to be from low-income group with monthly family income of less than Rs 5,000.

The government has pumped lot of money for revamping it is with Rs 1.6 crore each given to 100 it is in 2005-06 and World Bank funding upgradation of 400 ITIs. In addition, 1,090 ITIs have been upgraded with the help of private partners and the government giving Rs 2.5 crore interest free loan to each vocational college for upgradation of training infrastructure.

On the curriculum side, 46 new trades have been added and special courses have been run with the help of the industry to train the trainers. The government has also initiated a scheme - apprenticeship training scheme - to get on field training. The impetus was given to provide adequately trained manpower for the economy growing at over eight percent annual rate.

But, many pass-outs found that the industry preferred cheap labour, which was available in abundant in the market and therefore, did not offer them adequate salary. Many of the trainees expressed unhappiness over inadequate stipend, fewer opportunities for learning new skills and involvement of trainees in low end jobs.

The survey conducted to assess the nature and quality of training in it is and employability of trainees found that practical training was lacking in the module. Many of the trainers also felt that the syllabus has not been synchronized with the needs of industry.

Even though the government has opened over 400 new training institutes, there was short supply of trained manpower in industrially developed areas such as Gurgaon and Mumbai and more in lesser industrially developed areas. "Hence, they (trainees) have to migrate," the survey said.

Another grey area pointed out was shortage of trainers in most ITIs and majority being ad-hoc or on contract. "Teachers were also engaged in other activities," the survey said.

The survey also found that women have been left out from the revamp. There are few hostel facilities for women and trades suited for females such as hair and skin car and front office jobs, the survey report submitted to the government in October said. Only 36 % of vocational training institutes have hostel facility.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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