30-day training for ITI employees

NEWDELHI: Beginning Wednesday, more than 200 employees from the 17 industrial training institutes (ITI) in the city will begin training on courses that include anger management, awareness on “minority issues”, environment, women empowerment, and handling complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace, among others.

The month-long programme is covered under the refresher training module of the Delhi government in adherence to the National Training Policy drafted by the Centre in 2012, senior government officials said.

They further said, the idea of the policy is to equip government servants – from the lowest levels to the top in the hierarchy – with skills that add to their competence. It requires state governments to appoint nodal officer in each department for monitoring of refresher courses, workshops and training programmes. The states are allowed to design the content of their programmes, senior officials said.

“All principals (of ITIS) have been asked to nominate at least four employees from each department. At the end of the course, the candidates will be issued certificates,” said a senior official in Delhi government’s directorate of training and technical education, which handles the ITIS.

The programme has 14 courses, each comprising classes and workshops ranging between one day to three days, showed the training programme schedule which HT has seen.

The circular issued in connection with the training programme said, “These Courses are designed to enhance the skill set and knowledge of the participating officials and to make them familiar with new concepts and initiatives. Besides, it would help them in performance of their dayto-day duties.”

Senior officials said, “The programme will focus on building functional efficiency, managerial competence, essential life skill, general awareness and good governance. After completion, all candidates will be given certificates. In each case, the branch heads who nominate candidates will have to explain in brief why a particular candidate has been nominated for the course.”

The branch and departments heads get to choose which officials to nominate and it is usually done on a rotational basis. Experts, empanelled with the central government, are roped in as mentors. Each candidate can be nominated for one or multiple courses under the programme, senior government officials said.