The Punjab Government has decided to soon take up the issue with the Centre for rescheduling annual academic session of the ITIs from the month of June to May.
The State Technical Education Minister Charanjit Singh Channi took serious notice of the development that many passing out students of ITIs could not meet admission date deadlines in diploma courses of Technical Education institutes for higher education as the annual academic session of ITIs ends in July every year.
Channi said that one academic year of ITI students is wasted just because of present academic session of it is, that ends in July, and after this it takes almost a month to declare results.
“By the date the results were pronounced, the dates for admission in diploma courses lapses and students of ITIs were not able to get admissions for higher studies,” he noted.
The decision came after a delegation of Punjab ITI Employees’ Association met the Minister giving a detailed representation regarding the “faulty” system.
Channi assured them that the Punjab Government would make all efforts to solve this issue on priority.
On the occasion, the ITI employees also proposed to implement the sports grading system for ITI students and to start inter-state ITI games.