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- The Council was established in 1956 and since then it has been advising Government in framing the vocational training policies for expansion of National Vocational Training System and in maintaining high standards of training in the country.
- NCVT meets regularly to grant affiliating to these rapidly growing ITIs .
- Central Government, with the help of State Governments, has launched two major Schemes for upgradation of all the existing Government Industrial Training Institutes in the country.
- Under the first Scheme, 500 ITIs are being upgraded. Out of which 100 ITIs have been upgraded into Centres of Excellence through domestic funding at a cost of Rs 160 crore and other 400 ITIs are being upgraded under the Vocational Training Improvement Project assisted by World Bank at a cost of about Rs 1581 crore.
- The second Scheme is for upgradation of the remaining 1396 Government ITIs in PPP mode
- National Policy on Skill Development has set a target for training of 500 million persons by year 2022
- Many States have now constituted State Skill Development Missions.
- Enhancing Skill Development Infrastructure in North Eastern States and Sikkim, Kaushal Vikas Yojana – under which 1500 ITIs and 5000 SDCs in PPP mode are proposed to be set up in the country and finally, Expansion of Trainers Training infrastructure through Establishment of 15 ATIs and 12 RVTIs.
- A decision had also been taken that Instructor Training Institutes may be set up by State/UT Governments as well as private sector. In order to maintain quality and standards of instructor training in all such institutes, it was also decided that such institutes should be affiliated to NCVT so that the trainees after completion of training are trade tested and successful trainees could be awarded Craft Instructor Certificates under the aegis of NCVT. A complete manual for setting of “Institute for Training of Trainers” has been prepared and up loaded on DGET web site for end-users.
