Punjab Government has enhanced the scholarship under apprenticeship training scheme to encourage youth towards entrepreneurship by 40 per cent — from `600 to 900.
The State Technical Education and Industries Minister Madan Mohan Mittal on Sunday said that the ITI students have to undergo one-year training programme and those passing Class X and VIII will have to undergo two and four years direct training programme to complete their technical curricula. All ITI students have to undergo mandatory training programme under the apprenticeship Training Act 1961, he added.
Mittal said the scholarship for first year has been enhanced from `1,490 to `2,100, for second year from `1,700 to `2,400, third year from `1,970 to `2,800 and fourth year from `2,220 to `3,100 per month.
“This initiative has been taken to encourage the students for professional education to compete at national and international level and enable them to get self-employed,” he said.
To achieve this target, Department of Technical Education has tied up with the Education Department to encourage the students to get industrial training, Mittal said.
He said that Punjab Government has approved two government institutions — Government Press, Patiala, and Government Basic Training Centre, Hoshiarpur — to get admissions in entrepreneurship training.
Besides, private sector units like Punjab Tractor limited, DCM Engineering Products, leader Engineering Works limited and Mugal Goetage India limited have also been enlisted for such training.