India
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Authorities
Central Board for Workers Education
This tripartitie semiautonomous body serves as a demonstration and information centre and acts as a nucleus around which specialised schemes for training and education to labour are evolved. The website provides information on training programmes and awareness camps. There are also statistics on the number of workers trained in various programmes.
Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology
CAPART is an autonomous body registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860,and is functioning under the aegis of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Today, this agency is a major promoter of rural development in India, assisting over 12,000 voluntary organizations across the country in implementing a wide range of development initiatives. Some of the schemes introduced on the website have a training dimension (Young Professional Scheme).
Department of Information Technology
The Human Resource Development section of this website describes in detail a number of training measures taken in order to make India an IT Super Power by the Year 2008.
Ministry of Human Resource Development
This is a comprehensive website on all aspects of education and training, including policies, programmes, initiatives, institutions and statistics.
The Citizen Services Gateway includes National Vocational Training Information Service. The Directorate General of Employment & Training provides online a detaild description of training schems and Field Institutes/Offices/Centers.
The website has information on the training programme "Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)" and its subprogrammes like the skills development programme for the unemployed youths in the rural areas.
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Under the different welfare schemes (scheduled caste, persons with disabilities, backward classes and minorities) the website offers a lot of information on training centres and training programmes.
Ministry of Small Scale Industries
The Ministry designs policies, programmes, projects and schemes in consultation with its organizations and various stakeholder and monitors their implementation with a view to assisting the promotion and growth of small scale industries. The website has comprehensive information on training organisations/institutions and on training programmes.
The website has information on Vocational Training Center in Tribal Areas and Centrally Sponsored Education & Training Programes.
Ministry of Women and Child Development
The website has information on training programmes like the Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP).
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
The website has information on the Financial Assistance for Promotion of Youth Activities & Training.
National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCEUS)
This Commission was set up as an advisory body and a watchdog for the informal sector to bring about improvement in the productivity of these enterprises for generation of large scale employment opportunities on a sustainable basis, particularly in the rural areas. Suitable interventions for skill development for the informal sector are also under consideration of the Commission.
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
One dimension of NCERT’s activities is the pre-service and in-service training of teachers at various levels; pre-primary, elementary, secondary and higher secondary, and also in such areas as vocational education, educational technology, guidance and counselling, and special education. The website provides comprehensive information on all training activities.
National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB)
Established by Government of India in 1982 the NSTEDB has a broad objective of promoting gainful self-employment. The website describes in detail the training and skills development programmes of the Board.
Institutions
The Advanced Training Institute, Vidyanagar, Hyderabad is a premier institute engaged in the development of trained manpower, trained Craft Instructors and also in providing technical services to all State Directorates of Craftsmen Training, Private Industrial Training Centres, and Industries across the country. The website provides information on the long term and short ther cources. There are Advanced Training Institutes also in Kanpur, Chennai, Mumbai and Ludhiana.
Advanced Training Institute for Electronics & Process Instrumentation (ATI-EPI)
This Institute was set up in the year 1974 by the Government of India with the assistance of the International Labour Organisation / Swedish International Development Authority to cater to the Training requirement of industries/organisations by offering both Short Term and Long term courses in the field of Electronics & Process Instrumentation. The website provides information on the long term and short ther cources.
Indian Institue of Entrepreneurship
With an aim to undertake training, research and consultancy activities in the small industry sector focusing on entrepreneurship development, the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) was established in the year 1993 at Guwahati by the Ministry of Industry (now Ministry of Small Scale Industry) , Government of India as an autonomous national institute. The website has information on the previous, ongoing and forthcoming training programmes.
National Institute for Entrepreneurship and small Business Development (NIESBUD)
This Institute was established in 1983 by the Ministry of Industry (now Ministry of Small Scale Industries), Govt. of India, as an apex body for coordinating and overseeing the activities of various institutions/ agencies engaged in Entrepreneurship Development Particularly in the area of small industry and small business. Among other training related information, the website introduces the seven training programmes run by the Institute.
National Vocational Training Institute
This is a training institute for women. The website has only one page with limited information on the cources.
National Small Industries Corporation
Established in 1955 by the Government of India the Corporation promotes, aids and fosters the growth of small industries in the country. The website has information on the training courses conducted at NSIC Technical Services Centres and on the IT Incubator.
nisiet, as it is known today, came into being in 1960 as Central Institute of Small Industry Extension Training (CISIET) at New Delhi. The Institute strives to achieve its avowed objectives through a gamut of operations ranging from training, consultancy, research and education, to extension and information services. The website has extensive information on training, including the centres, cells, programmes and projects.