Punjab Government on Thursday made it clear that admission in all Government and private industrial training institutes (ITIs) is being done online and as per the government’s reservation policy. It was also clarified that according to the policy, no institute can refuse admission on available seats.
“Only two counselling for admissions in ITIs have taken place and the third counselling is still going on. There are still 20 days left for admissions. There are 25,837 seats in government institutions and 50,686 seats in private institutions,” said the state Technical Education Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. He said that instructions for admissions have already been issued for the year 2017-18 in the government and private industrial training institutes under the reservation policy.
The Minister said that according to the decision taken by the government, fee reimbursement of SC students to the private organisations is to be given equivalent to the fees set by the government organizations.
Apart from this, he said that for the year 2014-15, reimbursement under post-matric scholarship scheme had already been given by the Welfare Department. He said that as per information received from the Welfare Department due to dispute in fee structure writ petitions filed in the High Court regarding the rate of admission fee in ITIs between government and private institutions, no payment have been made for the ITIs.