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 Training Manual for
Industrial Training Institutes
and Centres
Second Edition
 Training Manual for
Industrial Training Institutes
and Centres
Second Edition

Directorate General of Employment and Training

Ministry of Labour
Government of India
New Delhi

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 Preface to the Second Edition

This Training Manual is a comprehensive guide for all relevant information pertaining to the
Craftsmen Training Scheme of the Government of India, Ministry of Labour, being
implemented in Industrial Training Institutes/Centres all over the country. It has been divided
into five parts viz., (i) Organisation (ii) Administration of Industrial Training Institutes (iii)
Institute Staff (iv) General Information, and (v) Prescribed Standards.
Detailed information supplementing the text contained in the above parts, such as various
prescribed proformae, statistical returns, procedures etc., has been included in the relevant
appendices and annexures to the manual.
The Training Manual is an attempt to provide a transparent system to the end users of
Craftsmen Training Scheme. Any training scheme, being non-static in nature, requires
continuous review and updating of policies, procedures, rules, standards etc., so that the
socio-economic changes, technical advancements and training needs of user industries are
appropriately taken care of. The last revision of this manual was done in year 1995. After that
the National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) has made a number of recommendations
and necessary orders for the implementation of prescribed norms that were issued from time to
time. The training manual has been revised to incorporate these orders at the appropriate
places.
It may, however, be clarified that this manual is not a legal document, but is made only to
serve the users for smooth implementation of the norms prescribed by NCVT. For any clarifica-
tion, the original office orders relating to that recommendation may be referred to.
It is hoped that the State Directorates dealing with Craftsmen Training, Principals and Staff
of ITIs/ITCs, trainees and all those concerned with the implementation of the Craftsmen
Training Scheme would continue to find this manual a very useful reference.

DGE&T
Ministry of Labour
New Delhi
 Preface to the First Edition

This Training Manual is a comprehensive guide for all relevant information pertaining to the
Craftsmen Training Scheme of the Government of India, Ministry of Labour, being
implemented in Industrial Training Institutes/Centres all over the country. It has been covered
in five parts viz., (i) Organisation (ii) Administration of Industrial Training Institutes (iii)
Institute Staff (iv) General Information, and (v) Prescribed Standards.
Detailed information supplementing the text contained in the above parts, such as various
prescribed proformae, statistical returns, procedures etc., has been included in the relevant
appendices to the manual.
Any training scheme, being non-static in nature, requires continuous review and updating of
policies, procedures, rules, standards etc., so that the socio-economic changes, technical
advancements and training needs of user industries are appropriately taken care of. It is
suggested that the manual may always be read along with the instructions/orders issued from
time to time so that information is correct and up-to-date.
It is hoped that the State Directorates dealing with Craftsmen Training, Principals and Staff
of ITIs, trainees and all those concerned with the implementation of the Craftsmen Training
Scheme, would continue to find this manual a very useful reference.

DGE&T
Ministry of Labour
New Delhi
 Contents

Preface to the Second Edition v

Preface to the First Edition vii

Part 1: Organisation 1
1. Craftsmen Training Scheme 1
2. National Council for Vocational Training 1
3. State Council for Vocational Training 5
4. Local Advisory Committees for Institutes/Centres 6
5. Pattern of Staff at State Directorates 7
6. Admission for ITIs/ITCs 7
7. Sub-Committees of NCVT 7

Part 2: Administration of Industrial Training Institutes 9

8. Organisational Chart of an Industrial Training Institute 9
9. Channel of Correspondence 9
10. Admissions to Industrial Training Institutes 9
11. Caution Money 11
12. Medical Examination 12
13. Aptitude Test 13
14. Transfer of Trainees 13
15. Concessions to Trainees 13
16. Tuition Fees 14
17. Working Hours 14
18. Holidays 14
19. Minimum Compulsory Attendance for Trainees 15
20. Leave Admissible to Trainees 15
21. Unauthorised Absence 17
x Contents

22. Absconders 17
23. Suspensions, Discharges and Resignations 17
24. Award of Stipend 18
25. Supply of Stationery to Trainees 18
26. Supply of Overalls (Workshop Clothing) 19
27. Sale of Manufactured Products 19
28. Manufacture of Certain Items of Tools and Equipment at
Industrial Training Institutes by Trainees 19
29. Condemnation of Surplus (Serviceable and Unserviceable) Articles—
Condemnation Board; Auction and Outside Orders 20
30. Progress Cards 20
31. Trade Test Procedure including Expenses and Allowances 20
32. Record Cards of Trainees who Pass Out—Follow-up 20
33. National Trade Certificates 21
34. Procedure for Issue of Blank Certificates 21
35. Issue of Duplicate Trade Certificates 22
36. Inspection of Industrial Training Institutes/Centres 22
37. Educational Tours by Trainees 25
38. Grants to Industrial Training Institutes/Centres 25
39. Statistical Returns Pertaining to Craftsmen Training Scheme 27
39(i). Management Information System 28
40(i). Opening of New Industrial Training Institutes/Centres 28
40(ii). Streamlining the Procedure for Opening ITIs/ITCs 29
41. Establishment of Industrial Training Institutes/Centres, Donations by Private Bodies—
Association of their Names with the Names of the Centres 30
42. Introduction of New Trades, Change of Trades and Expansion of
Industrial Training Institutes/Centres 30
43. Recognition of Diplomas/Certificates Awarded under Craftsmen/Displaced
Persons Training Schemes (Appendix-XV) 31
44. All India Skills Competition 32
45. Training in Dual Trades 35
46. Wearing of Uniforms by Technical Staff 35
47. Definition of Technical Staff 36
48. Training in Industry 36
48(i) Setting up of a Performance Appraisal System and Systematic Identification of
Staff Training Needs 36
49. Concessions to Trainees for Active Service in Armed Forces 36

Part 3: Institute Staff 38

50. Scale of Staff Admissible for Industrial Training Institute/Centre 38
 Contents xi

51. Qualification, Experience and Method of Direct Recruitment and Promotion of

Technical Staff at Industrial Training Institutes 43
52. Qualifications for the Post of Technical Assistant at the Headquarters of the
State Directorates of Training 47
53. Qualifications Prescribed for Hostel Superintendent-cum-Physical Training Instructor 48
54. Qualifications for Technical Staff at State Headquarters 48
55. Suggested Duties of Principal, Supervisory and Instructional Staff of
Industrial Training Institutes 49
56. Timetables for Instructional and Supervisory Staff 51
57. Model Lessons/Demonstrations by Instructional/Supervisory Staff 51
58. Staff Meetings 52
59. Reference Material and Training Aids 52
60. Internal Inspection of Institutes 53
60(a). Salaries to be Paid to the Staff Being Engaged by Private ITC’s 53
61. Development of Instructional Materials to Improve Quality of Training 53
62. Course Fees for Various Training Programmes Conducted by DGE&T Field Institutes 54

Part 4: General Information 55

63. Responsibility for Care and Custody of Government Property at Hostels 55
64. Licences for Mechanic Motor Vehicle Trainees 55
65. Application of Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923, and Factories Act, 1948, to
Industrial Training Institutes 55
66. Audiovisual Aids for Craftsmen Training 56
66(i). Modernisation and Removal of Obsolescence 56
67. Affiliation of Training Institutes /Centres/ Trades/Units to National Council for
Vocational Training under the Craftsmen Training Scheme 56
68. De-affiliation Procedure of ITI/ITC/Trades/Units from NCVT 56
69. Accounts and Stores 57

Part 5: Prescribed Standards 58

70. Land and Building for Training Institute 58
71. Provision of Diesel Generating Set 58
72. Syllabi for Engineering and Non-Engineering Trades 58
73. Standard Lists of Hand Tools and Equipment 58
74. Instructional Materials 59
75. Maintenance of Tools and Equipment 59
76. Provision of Utensils for Hostels Attached to Industrial Training Institutes/ Centres 60
77. Scale of Furniture Admissible for Industrial Training Institute/Centres 60
78. Scope of Ex-ITI Trainees 60
79. List of State Directorates 61
xii Contents

Appendix I
Survey of Occupations around ITIs for Determining the Scope for
Training in the ITIs (Industry-wise Survey) 62
Proforma for Conducting Survey in Industry in Trades in Which There is Absolute
Employment Potential in the Area 63
Proforma Suggested for Submitting Proposals for Discontinuance of Unpopular
Trades and Substituting them with Popular Trades out of Existing NCVT Trades 64
Summary of Trades to be Abolished/Introduced 65

Appendix II
Norms for Staffing Pattern at Directorates of States/UTs for
Implementation of Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS) 66

Appendix III
Organisation Chart of an Industrial Training Institute 68

Appendix IV
Model Prospectus of the Craftsmen Training Scheme in
Industrial Training Institutes/Centres 69
A. Scope and Duration 69
B. Minimum Qualification for Admission 69
C. Age 69
D. Physical Standards 70
E. Method of Selection 70
F. Undertaking from Trainees 70
G. Caution Money 70
H. National Trade Certificate 70
I. Hostel Facilities 71
J. Concessions 71
K. Submission of Application 71
L. Special Concessions to Persons Belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes 71
M. Facilities Available for Apprenticeship Training in Industry under Apprentices Act, 1961 71

Appendix V
Proforma for Register of Caution Money Deposits 73
Monthly Abstract of Caution Money Deposits at the End of Month 73

Appendix VI
Progress Card for Craftsmen Training Scheme(For Engineering Trades only) 75
 Contents xiii

Appendix VII
Progress Card for Craftsmen Training Scheme
(For Non-Engineering Trades only) 80

Appendix VIII
Trade Test Procedure for the Craftsmen Training Scheme
under the Aegis of NCVT 82

Appendix IX
Record Card of Ex-trainees—Follow-up 97

Appendix X
Provisional National Trade Certificate (for Regular Candidates) 98

Appendix X-A
Provisional National Trade Certificate (for Private Candidates) 99

Appendix XI
National Trade Certificate (for Regular Candidates) 100

Appendix XI-A
National Trade Certificate (for Private Candidates) 101

Appendix XII
Inspection Questionnaire (for Technical Inspection of
Industrial Training Institutes/Centres) 102
Annexure I: Proforma 106

Appendix XIII
The Proforma of the Requisite Information regarding Inspection Carried out 108

Appendix XIV
Annual Statistical Return on Craftsmen Training Scheme 109

Appendix XIV–A
Annual Statistical Return Showing Number of Trainees Declared Successful under
Craftsmen Training Scheme in Final/Supplementary Trade Tests 111

Appendix XIV–B
Annual Statistical Return of ITIs/ITCs under Craftsmen Training
Scheme Trades and Units Existing and Affiliated to NCVT 113
xiv Contents

Appendix XIV–C
Annual Statistical Return Relating to Training of Industrial Workers under
Scheme of Part-time Classes for Industrial Workers 115

Appendix XV
Recognition of Trade Certificates Awarded by Various Authorities
at the Level of Craftsmen 117

Appendix XVI–A
List (as on 20-5-68) of Trades under CTS of the DGE&T in Respect of
Which Diploma/Certificate Awarded from Time to Time have been
Recognised by Government of India 121

Appendix XVI–B
Engineering and Non-Engineering Trades, Period of Training and
Minimum Educational Qualification for Admission under Craftsmen Training
Scheme (CTS) as on 01-08-2000 124

Appendix XVI–C
List of Trades Which were Revised During 1996–2002 Under CTS 130

Appendix XVII
Certificate of Merit for the Best Trainee 132

Appendix XVII–A
Certificate of Merit for the Best ITI 133

Appendix XVII–B
Certificate of Merit for the Best State 134

Appendix XVIII
Licences for Mechanic (M&V) Trainees 135

Appendix XIX
Procedure for Affiliation of Training Institutes/Centres/Trades/Units to the
National Council for Vocational Training under Craftsmen Training Scheme 137
Annexure I: Particulars to be Furnished by the Management of the
Private Institute/Centre Seeking Permission to Conduct Training Courses on the
Pattern of Craftsmen Training Scheme Leading to Affiliation to NCVT 142
Annexure II: Minimum Norms for Permitting an Institute to Start in
Respect of Land, Building and Staff 144
Annexure III: Particulars to be Furnished to the Secretary NCVT for the Purpose of
Considering Grant of Affiliation of Institutes/ Centres implementing Craftsmen
 Contents xv

Training Scheme under the Aegis of the National Council of Vocational Training—
Revised Proforma for Inspection Report by Standing Committee 146
Annexure III-A: Details of Trades/Units Proposed for Grant of Affiliation
(To be Filled in By State Director Dealing with Craftsmen Training Scheme) 154
Annexure- III-B: Checklist for Forwarding SCIR/DIRs to DGE&T HQ for
Affiliation of ITIs/ITCs 156
Annexure IV: Terms and Conditions for Affiliation to National Council for
Vocational Training 157
Annexure V 158
Annexure VI 159
Annexure VII: Checklist for forwarding SCIR/DIR to DGE&T Headquarters for
Affiliation of ITIs/ITCs 160
Annexure VIII: Reconstituted Sub-Committee of NCVT Dealing with Affiliation of
ITI/Trade/Unit in the 32nd Meeting of the NCVT Held on 18th December, 1996 162
Annexure IX: List of Coordinating Officers/DGE&T Field Institutes/Offices and the
States/UTs Covered for Inspection of Institutes by Standing Committees (Stan. Com.) 163
Annexure X 164

Appendix XX
Procedure for Evaluation of ITIs/ITCs/Trades/Units, which are Already Affiliated to
NCVT (Government and Private) —De-affiliation Procedure 166
Annexure I: Notice to be Issued to Management of ITIs/ITCs by State Directors/UT
Administrators under the Procedure for Evaluation of ITIs/ITCs/Trades/Units,
which are Already Affiliated to NCVT (Government and Private)—
De-affiliation Procedure 169
Annexure II: Notice to be Issued to the Management of ITIs/ITCs by State Directors/UT
Administrators under Procedure for Evaluation of ITIs/ITCs/Trades/Units,
which are Already Affiliated to NCVT (Government and Private Both)—
De-affiliation Procedure 170

Appendix XXI
Space Requirement of ITIs and Various Trades under Craftsmen Training Scheme 171

Appendix XXII
Written Instructional Material (WIMs) Completed 179

Appendix XXIII
Proforma for the Maintenance of Equipment, Register, Log Book and Maintenance Chart 180

Appendix XXIV
Recommendations of Special Committee Appointed by State Representatives
Regarding Provision of Furniture for Industrial Training Institutes 182
xvi Contents

Annexure A: List of Furniture for Industrial Training Institute having a

Capacity of 300 Trainees 184
Annexure B: List of Furniture of Industrial Training Institute having a
Capacity of 600 Trainees 187
Annexure C: List of Furniture of Industrial Training Institute having a
Capacity of 1000 Trainees 191

Appendix XXV
List of State Directorates/UTs Dealing with Craftsmen Training Scheme 195
 Part 1

Organisation

1. Craftsmen Training Scheme

The Craftsmen Training Scheme was introduced by the Government of India in 1950 to ensure a
steady flow of skilled workers in different trades for the domestic industry, to raise quantitatively
and qualitatively the industrial production by systematic training, to reduce unemployment
among the educated youth by providing them employable training, to cultivate and nurture a
technical and industrial attitude in the minds of the younger generation. The Scheme, the most
important in the field of Vocational Training, has been shaping craftsmen to meet the existing as
well as future manpower need, through the vast network of ITIs in the various states/union
territories in the country. The day-to-day administration of ITIs under the Craftsmen Training
Scheme was transferred to the state governments/union territory administrations with effect
from the year 1956. From 1st April, 1969, the financial control of the Industrial Training
Institutes in the States as well as in the Union Territories has been transferred to the respective
State Governments/Union Territories. The financial assistance is granted to them in the form of
bulk grant in consultation with the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance.
The objects of the scheme are:
(i) to ensure a steady flow of skilled workers in different trades for the industry;
(ii) to raise the quality and quantity of industrial production by systematic training of
workers; and
(iii) to reduce unemployment among the educated youth by equipping them for suitable
industrial employment.

2. National Council for Vocational Training

Resolution
In pursuance of the recommendation of the All India Council for Technical Education, the
Government of India in the Ministry of Labour Resolution No. RTA-428(5)/dated the 22nd May,
1951, appointed a committee called the National Trade Certification Investigation Committee
with instructions to prepare a scheme for the establishment of an All India Trades Board which
would award certificates of proficiency to craftsmen in the various engineering and building
trades. The report of this committee as also the recommendation of the Training and
2

Employment Services Organisation Committee (known as the Shiva Rao Committee), have been
considered by the Government of India. The Government agreed with both the committees that
there is need for setting up a central agency for coordinating the training programmes in the
country bringing about uniformity of standards and awarding certificates of proficiency in
craftsmanship on an All India basis. Such a step is in the interest of both the industry and the
workers in as much as it ensures that the holders of National Certificates possess a minimum
recognised degree of skill. In addition, it facilitates mobility of tradesmen and their employment.
The Government of India also decided to transfer the administration of the training organisa-
tion under the Directorate General of Resettlement and Employment to the control of the State
Government concerned, retaining for themselves the functions of co-ordinating craftsmen train-
ing and laying down the training policy. This decision has further accentuated the need for a
central agency for assisting or advising the Central Government in the discharge of their respon-
sibilities regarding Craftsmen Training. It has accordingly been decided, in consultation with the
State governments and other concerned parties, to set up a National Council for Vocational
Training. Accordingly, with a view to ensure and maintain uniformity in the standards of train-
ing all over the country, the National Council for Vocational Training, an advisory body, was set
up by the Government of India in the year 1956. The Council has been entrusted with the respon-
sibilities of prescribing standards and curricula for Craftsmen Training, advising the Govern-
ment of India on the overall policy and programmes, conducting All India Trade Tests and
awarding National Trade Certificates. The National Council is chaired by the Minister of Labour,
with members representing Central and State Government departments, employers’ and work-
ers’ organisations, professional and learned bodies, All India Council for Technical Education,
Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes, All India Women’s Organisation, etc. The State Council
for Vocational Training at the State level and the Trade Committees have been established to
assist the National Council.
The structure of the National Council for Vocational Training is given below:

(a) Name: The name of the Council shall be “The National Council for Vocational Training”.

(b) Headquarters: The headquarters of the Council shall be in New Delhi.

(c) Objects: The Council shall function as a central agency to advise the Government of India in
framing the training policy and co-ordinating vocational training throughout India.
(d) Functions: The functions of the council shall be to

1. establish and award National Trade Certificates in engineering, building, textile and
leather trades and such other trades as may be brought within its scope by the Govern-
ment of India
2. prescribe standards in respect of syllabi, equipment, and scale of accommodation, dura-
tion of courses and methods of training;
3. arrange trade tests in various trade courses and lay down standards of proficiency
required for a pass in the examination leading to the award of National Trade Certificate;
4. arrange for ad-hoc or periodical inspections of training institutions in the country to
ensure that the standards prescribed by the council are being followed;
5. recognise training institutions run by government or by private agencies for purposes of
the grant of National Trade Certificates and lay down conditions for such recognition;
 6. co-opt, if necessary, any person or persons to advise the council in connection with its
work;
7. prescribe qualification for the technical staff of training institutions;
8. prescribe the standards and conditions of eligibility for the award of National Trade
Certificates;
9. generally control the conditions for the award of National Trade Certificates;
10. recommend the provision of additional training facilities wherever necessary and render
such assistance in the setting up of additional training institutions or in the organisation
of additional training programmes as may be possible;
11. advise the Central government regarding distribution to State governments of the contri-
bution of the Government of India towards expenditure on the Craftsmen Training
Scheme;
12. perform such other functions as may be entrusted to it by the Government of India;
13. perform such functions as are assigned by or under the Apprentices Act, 1961.

(e) Composition of Existing Council: The council shall be constituted by the Government of India
and shall consist of the following members for a period of three years from 1.04.2000 to
31.03.2003.

(a) Union Minister for Labour/State Minister for Labour/Deputy Minister of Labour for
Labour—Chairmen.
(b) Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Labour—Vice Chairman.
(c) Director General of Employment and Training and one representative each of:
(i) Department of Telecommunication.
(ii) Ministry of Civil Aviation.
(iii) Ministry of Information and Technology.
(iv) CPWD, Ministry of Urban Development.
(v) Central Water Commission.
The representatives will, as far as possible, be technical officers.
(d) One representative each from State Governments and Union Territory Administra-
tions (State Directors dealing with Craftsmen Training Scheme) — Andhra Pradesh,
Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharash-
tra, Karnataka, Kerala, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar
Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa, Meghalaya and NCT Delhi.
(e) Three representatives of Employers Organisation, to be nominated by the Govern-
ment of India.
(f) Three representatives of the Workers Organisation to be nominated by the Govern-
ment of India.
(g) Three representatives of professional and learned bodies, to be nominated by the
Government of India.
(h) One representative of the All India Council for Technical Education, to be nominated
by that Council.
(i) One expert appointed by the Government of India.
(j) One representative each of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, nominated
by National Commission of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe.
(k) One representative from the All India Women’s Organisation, nominated by the
National Commission for Women.
4

(l) The Director of Employment Exchanges, (DGE&T), Ministry of Labour.

(m) The Deputy Director General of Apprenticeship Training (DGE&T), Ministry of
Labour.
(n) The Deputy Director General of Training (DGE&T), Ministry of Labour—Member
Secretary.
(DGE&T 19(20)199-CD Dt. 26.2.2000)

(f) Term of Office of Members: The term of office of all non-official members of the Council or
any standing committee appointed by the Council shall be three years from the date of appoint-
ment or nomination as the case may be, provided that a member appointed or nominated in his
capacity as a member of a particular body or as the holder of a particular appointment shall auto-
matically cease to be member if he ceases to be a member of that body or the holder of that ap-
pointment. Any person appointed to a casual vacancy among the non-official members of the
Council for the residue of the term for which the person whose place he fills would have been a
member.

(g) Proceedings of the Council:

1. The Chairman of the council, when present, shall preside over all meetings of the Council.
2. In the absence of the Chairman, the Secretary, Ministry of Labour shall preside. On occa-
sions, when the Chairman/Secretary, Ministry of Labour is unable to preside over a
meeting of the Council, the members present shall elect a Chairman from amongst them-
selves for the particular meeting.
3. One-third of the number of members of the Council shall constitute the quorum for any
meeting of the Council.
4. Not less than 30 days’ notice of every meeting of the Council shall ordinarily be given to
each member, but a shorter notice may be given for urgent meetings. The Council shall
meet as often as may be necessary and at least once every year.
5. The agenda of every meeting shall be sent so as to reach the members at least 15 days
before the scheduled date of meeting.
6. In the case of difference of opinion among the members of the Council, the opinion of the
majority shall prevail.
7. If there is equality of votes, the President of the meeting shall exercise a casting vote.
8. The Chairman may, in special circumstances, instead of convening a meeting of the
Council, obtain the views of the members on any item of business individually by circula-
tion instead of at a meeting.
9. No proceedings of the Council shall be invalidated merely by reason of the existence of
any vacancy or vacancies among the members.

(h) Committees: The Council shall have the power to appoint committees for assisting it in the
discharge of its functions.
The recommendations of the Council on training policy shall be referred to the Government
of India for decision.

(i) Trade Tests: Trade tests in various courses will be arranged by or under the authority of the
National Council for Vocational Training and Certificates duly approved by it will be awarded to
successful candidates.
(j) Inspection of Training Institutes: The Council’s functions in regard to inspection of Training
Institutes shall be exercised through the Directorate of Training. Training Institutions which
have already been recognised or which have applied for recognition by the National Council shall
afford all facilities for inspection to the staff of the Directorate of Training or any member of the
National Council examining body in a state or of any committee appointed by the National
Council.

(k) Staff: The Directorate of Training, Ministry of Labour, Government of India, shall provide
the required secretarial assistance to the Council.

(l) Publications: An annual report of the working of the National Council for Vocational Training
shall be published. The council may also publish periodicals and news bulletins for disseminating
information of interest to trainees and training institutions and industries.

(m) Financial: The expenses of the Council shall be met by the Government of India. Official
members of the Council and of the committees appointed under para (h) will draw travelling and
other allowances for attending the Council’s meetings and for performing work connected with
the Council from their respective Governments. Non-official members of the Council will be paid
travelling allowances by the Government of India at the rate admissible to Government of India
officers of the first grade in accordance with the Supplementary Rules.

3. State Council for Vocational Training

There are State Councils corresponding to the National Council to deal all matters relating to
vocational training at the level of the State.

(a) Object: The State Council which is affiliated to the National Council for Vocational Training
functions as a state agency to advise the State government in carrying out the training policy laid
down by the National Council and to co-ordinate the Vocational Training Programme through-
out the State.

(b) Functions: The functions of the state Council are:

1. to carry out the policy of the National Council with regard to the award of National Trade
Certificates in engineering and non-engineering trades as may be brought within its
scope by the Central or State government;
2. to implement the decision and carry out the policy laid down by the National Council in
respect of syllabi, equipment, scale of accommodation, duration of courses and method of
training;
3. to establish State Board of Examination in Vocational trades;
4. to arrange for ad-hoc or periodical inspection of the training institutes/centres in the
State and ensure that the standards prescribed by the National Council are being
followed;
5. to co-opt, if necessary, any person or persons to advise the State Council in connection
with its work;
 6. to ensure that the staff is employed according to the qualifications prescribed by the
National Council and relax qualifications in special circumstances to be recorded, for
trades where such staff is not easily available;
7. to ensure that the examinations are conducted by the State Board of Examinations
according to standards and the manner prescribed by the National Council;
8. to counter-sign and issue the National Trade Certificates to successful candidates;
9. to recommend the provision of additional training facilities, wherever necessary, and
render such assistance in the setting up of additional training programmes as may be
necessary;
10. to advise the State Government regarding expenditure on different training schemes;
and
11. to perform such other functions as may be entrusted to it by the State Government.

(c) Board of Examinations: The State Council shall constitute a Board of Examination as a
committee of the State Council, which shall perform the following functions:

1. to constitute a Local Board of Examination at each examination centre;

2. to co-opt outside experts on Local Board of Examination as and when necessary;
3. to make necessary arrangements for the proper conduct of examinations including the
provision of raw materials, answer books and other stationery at the examination centre;
4. to fix the scale of remuneration of the outside experts on the Local Board of Examination
and arrange payment thereof;
5. to ensure compliance with the standards prescribed by the National Council for the
conduct of the examination;
6. to declare final results; and
7. to submit a yearly report to the State Council regarding its activities and to suggest meas-
ures for effecting improvements.

4. Local Advisory Committees for Institutes/Centres

(a) Local Advisory Committees should be attached to training institutes/centres to study
the needs of industry in the region served by the centre and suggest measures to
adopt the training programmes to meet local needs. The Committee will consist of
the following members:
1. Principal of the training institute/centre,
2. Two representatives of the local industry,
3. One representative of labour, and
4. Local employment officers.
(b) The State Councils may also carry out surveys as given in the proforma at Appendix I
for assessing training need in their State to enable them to introduce the trades
having employability .
(c) There should be constructive collaboration between Institute and Industries for
bringing out improvement in quality of the training and maintenance of machinery
in ITIs. Therefore, representation of industries in the Local Advisory Committees
should be adequate and meaningful.
(No. DGET-19/7/96-CD (Vol. V), Dt. 21
5. Pattern of staff at State Directorates
Norms for staffing pattern at Directorates of States/UTs for implementation of Craftsmen
Training Scheme is given at Appendix II.

6. Admission for ITIs/ITCs

The appointment of Selection Committee by the State Governments for admission in ITIs has
been dispensed with for the sessions commenced from August, 1997 onwards. The admissions in
the ITIs are to be made purely on merit, based on the marks secured by the candidates in the
public examinations based on the minimum qualifications prescribed for the respective trade.
Wherever there is no public examination at the minimum qualification level, merit is to be made
on the marks obtained by the candidates in the written examination conducted by the State
Directorate for the purpose.
(No. DGET-9/28/96-CD dated 4
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6. National Commission for Women 1

7. Professional and learned bodies 1
8. Experts of the field 1
The Sub-Committee of NCVT be re-constituted after the expiry of NCVT and only the
members of working NCVT be nominated on this Sub-Committee.
 Part 2

Administration of Industrial
Training Institutes

8. Organisational Chart of an Industrial Training

Institute
A model organisation chart is given at Appendix III.

9. Channel of Correspondence
The State Directors in charge of Craftsmen Training Scheme will correspond with the
Dy.Director General of Training through their respective governments on the subjects involving
policy matters. The financial matters will be taken up with the Planning Commission by the
State Governments except Union Territories/Administrations, which will route such matters
through the Ministry of Home Affairs. All correspondence to the Deputy Director General of
Training, DGE&T from the Principals of the Industrial Training Institutes under the Craftsmen
Training Scheme in the States is through the State Director of Training except in the case of
statistical reports, which are sent direct to the statistical section of the Directorate General of
Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour, Government of India, with copies to their
controlling authorities.

10. Admissions to Industrial Training Institutes

(a) Age: The candidates of 14–25 years of age as on the date of start of admission session are eligi-
ble.

(b) Age Relaxation:

(i) There is no objection to the State Government/Union Territory Administration

making necessary relaxation of upper age limit up to 45 years in case of ex-
servicemen.
(ii) Relaxation of upper age limit up to 45 years permissible in case of war widows.
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(No. DGET-12(I) 71-TC, Dt. 20.2.1971)

(iii) Widows/separated women would be allowed to join various training programmes
under C.T.S. up to the age of 35 years.
(No. DGET-19(9)/89-CD, Dt. 31.3.89)
(iv) The upper age limit of physically handicapped candidates has been relaxed by 10
years and kept as 35 years on the date of start of admission session.
(No. DGET-19(15)/95-CD, Dt. 6.8.1996)

(c) Qualification: As prescribed in the respective trade syllabus.

(d) Reservation of Seats: This should be as follows:

(i) For candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes/Tribes in proportion to their popu-
lation in each State/Union Territory.
(ii) Twenty five per cent seats will be reserved for women candidates and these seats can
be filled up based on the general reservation policy of each State/UT, the total reser-
vation being limited to 50 per cent. If the seats meant for them are not utilised fully,
the same can be filled in by men candidates subsequently.
(No. DGET-19(29)/95-CD, Dt. 11.9.1996)
(iii) For boys and girls sponsored by the recognized orphanages, if specific reservation is
not possible at least preference should be given to them at the time of admission to
the Industrial Training Institutes/Centres.
(iv) Three per cent of the seats for admission into the Craftsmen Training Scheme and
Apprenticeship Training Scheme should be reserved for candidates who are handi-
capped but have aptitude and are otherwise fit to undergo the required training.
Attempts may be made by the States/UTs to ensure that three per cent of the seats
reserved for physically handicapped are fully utilised. Steps should also be taken to
give wide publicity in this regard, also by bringing the fact to the notice of associa-
tions/organisations of physically handicapped person and located in the States.
(DGET-3(6) 81-TC, Dt. 21-5-81),
(No. DGET-19(19)/90-CD, Dt. 10.5.90)
(v) Directorate General of Resettlement has confirmed the inclusion of ex-servicemen
category in the revised priorities for reservation up to 10 seats in each of the ITIs. As
such, the revised priorities for admission of wards of Defence personnel etc. would
henceforth be as under:
(i) Children of deceased/disabled ex-servicemen, including those
killed/disabled during peace time
(ii) Children of ex-servicemen
(iii) Children of serving jawans
(iv) Children of serving officers
(v) Ex-servicemen
(No. DGET-29/(4)/86-CD, Dt. April, 86)
(vi) Ten seats be kept reserved in each of the 410 identified ITIs with a maximum of
two seats in a trade for Defence Service Personnel under pre-cum-post release
training programme in ITIs from the session starting from August 2000. The
list would be submitted by DGR in respect of each State to the concerned State
Directorate well in advance to enable them to reserve the seats in different
ITIs. For ITIs meant for women, only women candidates, if any, would be con-
sidered for admission. The State Directorate would issue necessary instruc-
tions to the principals of the concerned ITIs to reserve the seats in the trades as
per the request of DGR. Where it is not possible to accommodate the request,
admission in alternative ITIs could be given.
(No. DGET-7/1/2000-TC dated 22
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Ordinarily the caution money should be deposited in full by the trainees at the time
of their admission. In deserving cases, however, the State Director may make a
relaxation to the extent that the amount is realised in suitable instalments within
one month of their admission. The caution money should be kept intact. Any recover-
ies from the trainees that may be necessary on account of damage to or loss of tools
and equipment should be made in cash or by other means. Utilisation of caution
money should be resorted to only in those cases where a trainee has left or is leaving
an institute and is otherwise unable to pay.
The caution money deposited by the trainees of the ITIs/ITCs may be refunded to
them as soon as they complete the institutional training and hand over the tools and
other articles entrusted to them. A certificate from the instructor concerned to the
effect that no article belonging to the institute/centre is left with the trainees,
should, however, be produced by them along with the application for the refund of
the caution money (see also Appendix V).
(No. DGET-29(1)/86-CD, Dt. 17.2.86)
(b) To guard against the loss or damage to hostel articles each hostel boarder of an
ITI/ITC will also be required to deposit with the Head of the training institute/centre
a sum of Rs. 25 only as “Hostel Caution Money” and Rs. 10 only per year as “Hostel
Service Charges”.
(No. DGET-12(20)/82-TC, Dt. 8.11.82)
(c) Both the caution money deposited by the trainees may be refunded to them in the
event of their discharge from the institute/hostel on any ground.
(d) All deposits should be refunded normally on satisfactory completion of the institu-
tional training.
(e) All balances unclaimed for more than three complete account years from the date
they first become repayable, shall at the close of March in each year be credited to the
government as unclaimed deposits. The date of first repayment shall be the date on
which trainee successfully completes the training.
(f) Caution money will be forfeited in the case of trainees who discontinue their training
after one month of commencement of training.
(No. DGET-12(8)/75-TC, Dt. 6.2.76)

12. Medical Examination

(a) Trainees should be medically examined by the Medical Officer attached to the
ITI/ITC soon after their admission. They should also be examined, thereafter once in
a year. In the case of trainees of doubtful health, the medical examination may be
held every three months. At the training institutes/centres, where no medical officer
has been appointed, arrangements for medical examination may be made through a
local doctor. The State Director may sanction for this purpose an examination fee at
a rate not exceeding Rs. 5/- per trainee examined on each occasion, besides convey-
ance charges. Training institutes within two and a half kilometers of one another
may be treated as one centre in calculating the rate of fee to be paid. Trainees found
medically unfit on admission should be discharged forthwith by the head of the train-
ing institutes/centres. The case of physically handicapped persons with the specified
 limitations shall be examined by the State Government/Union Territory administra-
tors concerned on merits, for relaxation of standards referred to above.
(DGET-19(10)/89-CD, Dt. 31.3.89)
(b) Candidates with proper and adequate vision in one eye should be made eligible for
admission to ITIs in the trades in which vision in one eye is adequate for receiving
training and seeking employment thereafter.
(No. DGET-19(11)/88-CD, Dt. 10.2.88)
(c) No rigid physical standards have been prescribed for admission under Craftsmen
Training Scheme. Trainees with contagious and infectious diseases should not be
admitted. Proper publicity should be given to inform the prospective trainees about
the physical standards/norms required for employment, so that candidates are fully
aware of the requirements before seeking admission.
(No. DGET-19 (11)/91-CD, Dt. 6.1.92)

13. Aptitude Test

(a) Aptitude test may be conducted for candidates selected for admission into Industrial
Training Institute/Centres at the end of the second month after admission. If a can-
didate is found unsuitable for a particular trade, he should be considered for any
other trade before rejecting him altogether.
(b) Trainees may be allowed a change of trade within the first month of their admission
to a training institute/centre provided they possess the requisite qualifications for
the new trade and vacancies are available.
(c) The use of aptitude test is optional and is left to the State Government.
(No. DGET-19(10)/92-CD, Dt.7.7.92)

14. Transfer of Trainees

The State Director may sanction the transfer of a trainee from one training institute/centre to
another or the exchange of trainees between the training centres provided the sanctioned
distribution of trades and the sanctioned number of trainees at those institutes/centres are
unaffected and such transfers do not involve any expenditure on travelling etc.

15. Concessions to Trainees

The trainees will be given following concessions while at the institutes/centres besides stipend
and free workshop clothing (overalls).
(i) free facilities for games, recreation and medical treatment; and
(ii) subsidised hostel accommodation, where available.
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16. Tuition Fees

(a) Tuition fee in the case of ITIs to be decided by the respective State Governments as
deemed fit based on the recommendation of the concerned State Council for Voca-
tional Training.
(b) Tuition fee in the case of institutes under DGET&T/Union territory administration
@ Rs. 20 p.m. or part thereof per trainee.
(c) No fee be charged from SC/ST and physically handicapped trainees.
(No. DGET-19(13)/95-CD, Dt. 30.7.1996)
(d) The State Directors/UTs, in consultation with SCVT, will decide suitable tuition fee
to be charged by private ITIs keeping in the view the cost of training.
(No. DGET-19(18)/95-CD, Dt. 6.8.1996)

17. Working Hours

Total working hours: 42 hours per week.
(a) Practical Instruction – 28 hours per week.
(b) Theoretical Instruction – 10 hours per week out of which
(i) Trade Theory 4 hours per week
(ii) Workshop Calculation and Science 2 hours per week
(iii) Engineering Drawing 2 hours per week
(iv) Social Studies 2 hours per week
(c) Extra-curricular activities including library studies and physical training – 4 hours
per week.
(No. DGET-12(19)/83-TC, Dt. 12.10.83)

18. Holidays
(a) Trainees may be allowed the same holidays as are fixed by the State Director for
observance by the staff. If a trainee is a stipend holder, he would be paid stipend at
the full rate during such holidays. With a view to have uniformity in the working of
ITIs all over the country, it has been decided that the number of working hours at the
ITIs should be fixed 7½ hours per day with second Saturday of a month as holiday.
(b) There will be no winter/summer holidays as such but the State Government may
close the institutes which are in areas inaccessible/snow-bound for a period of not
exceeding 15 days in a year. Efforts should be made to complete the loss due to such
closure by working extra hours during the year. This closure need not therefore
apply to all the ITIs even in the same State.
(No. DGET-12(15)/77-TC, Dt. 28.5.77)
19. Minimum Compulsory Attendance for Trainees
(a) The minimum compulsory attendance for trainees in regard to their eligibility for
the final trade test has been fixed at 80 per cent of the actual number of working
days.
(b) For the purpose of calculating 80 per cent of the actual number of working days in
respect of a trainee, the number taken will be the number of days for which atten-
dance was marked in the attendance register during the period between the day of
his admission and the date of the beginning of the trade test.
There may be cases in which the attendance of a trainee falls short of 80 per cent due
to reasons beyond his control. In such cases, no hard-and-fast rules can be laid down.
If a trainee has not missed essential training, the shortage of attendance, if due to
causes beyond his control should be condoned.
(c) Where a trainee absents himself for more than half the number of days, for whatever
reasons, he should not be allowed to continue his training. Where, however, the
absence is due to unavoidable circumstances and the trainee has the required apti-
tude and capacity to become a good skilled craftsman, the State Director in-charge of
the training scheme should decide each case on its own merit and admit the candi-
date for further training along with the senior batch provided there are vacancies in
the concerned trade. The re-admitted trainees will not be allowed a stipend.
(d) The hours lost on the shop floor by a trainee due to absence over and above the pre-
scribed minimum of 80 per cent attendance should be made up by the trainees by
working in the shift to the extent necessary to make up the loss in training without
providing any additional equipment and staff. The assignments to the trainee may be
made by his instructors and the work may be supervised by the instructors in charge
of the shift in which the trainee works. This concession should however be given only
to those trainees who lose training for reasons beyond their control and not for those
who remain absent frequently for trivial reasons.

20. Leave Admissible to Trainees

(a) Casual Leave
1. In addition to usual holidays in the year, casual leave at the rate of 12 days per year for
the course with duration of training as one year as well as two years will be admissible to
trainees subject to a maximum of 10 days at any one time. Any holidays intervening
during the period of casual leave shall not be counted for the purpose of the limit of 12
days. Since there is already a provision of medical leave and special leave, casual leave not
utilised during the 1st year of the two years course shall stand lapsed at the end of the 1st
year and shall not be permitted to be carried forward to the 2nd year. If the trainee is a
stipend holder, he will continue to draw stipend at full rate during the period of casual
leave.
2. Casual leave cannot be combined with any other kind of leave. If casual leave is preceded
or followed by medical or special leave, the entire leave taken will be treated as medical or
special leave provided that it shall not be allowed to exceed the maximum leave pre-
scribed in respect of medical/special leave.
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(b) Medical Leave

1. A trainee who is unable to attend duty owing to illness other than injuries received while
at work may be allowed medical leave up to 15 days. Leave for a further period, not
exceeding three weeks for one year trade courses and six weeks for two year trade courses
in continuation or in addition to 15 days absence, may be granted to a trainee on produc-
ing the medical certificate from a medical officer or a registered medical practitioner, irre-
spective of whether he goes to hospital or not. This leave should only be granted in case of
serious illness and only once during the period of training. A trainee who requires exten-
sion of leave in case of serious illness beyond 15 days and who does not go to a hospital for
treatment may be granted leave on the recommendations of the Medical Officer, if any,
posted at the training institute/centre by the State Government or a medical officer or not
below the rank of an Assistant Surgeon. If the Medical Officer of the rank of Assistant
Surgeon is not within the easy reach of the trainee, a certificate signed by a registered
medical practitioner may be accepted. The cost of medical treatment, seat rent etc. will be
borne by the government in the case of a trainee who is admitted as an indoor patient in a
hospital. The cost of diet during his stay as an indoor patient in a hospital will be borne by
the trainee and not by the government. The Principal of the training institute/centre will
arrange to pay the hospital bill after obtaining the sanction of the State Director con-
cerned, if necessary. A trainee who holds a stipend will be allowed to draw stipend at the
full rate during such leave.
2. During illness, trainees who reside in government hostels will also be paid actual convey-
ance charge to and from the hospital by the cheapest mode of conveyance, irrespective of
the fact whether they are admitted to hospital as indoor patients or not.
3. Trainees who are not fit for duty or do not report for duty at the end of two months should
be discharged from the date of expiry of the period. They may, however, be readmitted for
training by the State Director at his discretion, provided he is satisfied that they could not
join earlier and that they will be able to complete their course within the prescribed
period. Any period involved in excess of the leave admissible will be without stipend in the
case of trainees who hold stipend.
4. Under no circumstances should patent medicines be allowed to trainees at the cost of the
government. The term patent medicine means medicines which are not ordinarily
stocked in local government hospitals or dispensaries but does not include vaccine, sera,
or other materials required for injections, provided they are administered on a limited
scale as part of treatment for specific ailments and the necessity for their use is certified
by the competent Medical Officer.
(DGET-19(12)/90-CD, Dt. 25.5.90)
(c) Special Leave
1. Special leave on private affairs may be allowed to trainee up to 10 days. In extraordinary
cases, where the head of the centre/institute is satisfied that the requirement is genuine,
the period of special leave may, at his discretion, be raised to a maximum of 15 days for
trainees of one-year trade courses and 30 days for trainees of two years trade courses. No
scholarship will be admissible during the period of special leave to a trainee who is a
scholarship holder.
(No. DGET-19(12)/90-CD, Dt. 25.5.90)
 2. If a trainee over stays the maximum period of special leave, he should be struck off the
rolls from the day following the date of expiry of the period and treated as an absconder.
(d) Training Fee
Training fee will be payable to Industrial Training Centres with regard to trainees who avail of
the above kinds of leave.

21. Unauthorised Absence

For unauthorised absence of less than 10 consecutive days at a time, the Principal of the
institute/centre should issue a written warning to the trainee for the first occasion. If the offence
is repeated, his case should be reported to the State Director, with a view to discharge.
Proportionate deduction of stipend should be made by the Principal of the institute/centre for all
unauthorised absence from such trainees who are stipend holders.

22. Absconders
A trainee who absents himself from a training institute/centre for 10 consecutive days without
permission and without informing the Principal of the institute/centre of the reasons for his
absence, should be treated as an absconder and struck off the rolls with effect from the first day of
his absence. If a trainee returns to the training institute/centre within two weeks after having
been struck off as an absconder, he may be readmitted by the Principal of the institute/centre
with the approval of the State Director, provided the trainee gives a satisfactory explanation of
his absence.

23. Suspensions, Discharges and Resignations

(a) The State Directors may discharge at their discretion such trainees as are recom-
mended for discharge by the Principals of training institutes/centres on account of
unsatisfactory progress in training, misconduct, etc. For acts of indiscipline and mis-
conduct, the Principal of the institute/centre should issue a written warning for the
first offence. If the offence is repeated, his case should be reported to the Sate Direc-
tor with a view to discharge.
(b) Pending investigation of allegations against a trainee suspended of misconduct, he
may be suspended by the Principal of training institute/centre for good and proper
reasons, which should be recorded by him in writing. No stipend should be paid
during the period of suspension to a trainee who had been suspended for misconduct.
The stipend may, however, be paid in full if and when such a trainee is exonerated.
(c) Where a trainee under suspension is subsequently exonerated and the attendance
due to his suspension falls for short of described 80 per cent limit, he may be allowed
to complete his training, notwithstanding the shortage, and allowed to sit for the
trade test if he has covered the prescribed training course.
The provisions are not applicable to trainees appearing in the All-India Trade Tests
after August 1984 since the preliminary (first year) test is abolished.
(d) 1. Only those trainees of two-year courses at the ITIs who desire to join apprentice-
ship training should appear in the test at the end of first year at ITI. Those who do
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not intend to indenture themselves for apprenticeship training would continue

training in the second year without appearing in the test.
2. Those trainees who fail in the first-year test will also be allowed to continue train-
ing in the second year.
3. Those trainees who pass the first-year test but are not recruited by employers as
apprentices on account of limited number of vacancies may be allowed to continue
at ITIs. They may leave the institute for apprenticeship training in the next Febru-
ary but credit for ITI training will be given to them for one year only. If they con-
tinue at the ITIs for the full two years, they may appear in the final test for the
NCVT Certificate.
4. All those stipend holder trainees of the two year courses who (i) do not appear in the
test at the end of the 1st year, (ii) appear and fail the test at the end of the 1st year,
and (iii) having passed the test but are not recruited by the employers as appren-
tices in the August session and are allowed to continue in the ITIs in the second
year shall be entitled to continue to draw the stipend during the second year also.

24. Award of Stipend

(a) A stipend of Rs. 100/- per month per trainee will be awarded to all the trainees.
However, the State Government is at liberty to increase the rate of stipend in view of
the stipend payable under other schemes of Govt. of India/State Govt. or unemploy-
ment allowances payable within the State.
(No. DGET- 19 (12)/ 95 - CD, Dt. 2.9.1996)
(b) In addition to the normal stipend mentioned above, merit scholarships at the rate of
Rs.125/- per month per trainee may also be awarded to 40 per cent of the total
number of trainees on the rolls (both engineering and non-engineering trades) on the
basis of internal examination to be conducted at each Industrial Training Insti-
tute/Centre.
(No. DGET-19(8)/99 – CD dated January 7, 2000)
(c) Stipend should be granted to trainees only after the aptitude tests are over and deci-
sions taken regarding the discharge of supernumeraries. The award of stipend
should be finalised within a period of about three months of the start of session.

25. Supply of Stationery to Trainees

(a) Trainees in the trades of Draughtsman (Civil and Mechanical) and Surveyor will be
supplied with the following articles:
1. One pencil—medium hard Every month
2. One blank drawing book (24 pages) Every two months
3. One eraser Every three months
4. Laboratory size exercise book (one side One per session
blank and the other side ruled)
5. Drawing sheets As required
(b) The cost of the stationery will be met as follows:
1. Industrial Training Institutes from training grant.
 2. Industrial Training Centres from training fees.
(DGET-19(14)/93-CD, Dt. 23.9.93)

26. Supply of Overalls (Workshop Clothing)

One overall after every six months may be provided to the trainees who are required to work on
or near moving machines. So far as trainees of Draftsman (Mechanical and Civil) and Surveyor
trades are concerned, they may be provided with one overall during course of training. The
workshop attendants also may be provided with one overall every year. It has been left to the
respective State Governments to decide themselves the quality of cloth, according to the
availability of cloth in their local markets. No monetary limits have been fixed for this purpose.
(DGET-19(8)/92-CD, Dt. 25.6.92)

27. Sale of Manufactured Products

As per respective State Government Rules.

28. Manufacture of Certain Items of Tools and

Equipment at Industrial Training Institutes by
Trainees
(a) Trainees at the Industrial Training Institutes are required to carry out graded exer-
cises to learn the skills of their trades progressively. It is felt that during the practical
work done by the trainees, certain items included in the list of tools and equipment
as well as some furniture can be easily manufactured with the raw material out of the
training grant provided for the purpose of training. Those items, which can be con-
veniently manufactured during the training, may be chosen from the list of tools and
equipment in respect of various trades.
The State Government may examine the question of manufacturing these items of
tools and equipment at the Industrial Training Institutes as a matter of policy, and
to avoid the purchase of these items from the market. Detailed specifications in
respect of these items have not been given in the list of tools and equipment pre-
scribed. The State Government may, however, adopt the specifications on the basis
of similar items already available at the Industrial Training Institutes. It may be
mentioned that at certain Industrial Training Institutes all the facilities for manu-
facturing these items may not be available. The State Government may, therefore,
examine the possibility of having these items manufactured at those ITIs where all
the necessary facilities are available within the State itself. This will not only result
in the saving of a considerable expenditure, which the State Government may other-
wise have to incur for the purchase of additional tools and equipment as well as furni-
ture, but it will also provide an opportunity to the trainees to work on actual jobs
during the period of their training.
(b) In addition to the manufacture of tools for their own use, the ITIs can also undertake
jobs which have training value and are not repetitive in nature, from Public Sector
20

Undertakings, provided this work is commensurate with the needs for training and
also after their requirements of necessary tools etc. have been met.
Raw materials, spare parts accessories, etc. for all outside orders should generally be
provided by the customers placing the orders.

29. Condemnation of Surplus (Serviceable and

Unserviceable) Articles—Condemnation Board;
Auction and Outside Orders
As per respective Government Rules.

30. Progress Cards

A progress card should be maintained in respect of every trainee from the date of admission to
the institute/centre (Appendices VI and VII).
The monthly test be conducted in all the subjects and the performance recorded as usual on
monthly and quarterly basis for awarding sessional marks.
(DGET-19(10)/93-CD, Dt. 21.9.93)

31. Trade Test Procedure including Expenses and

Allowances
See Appendix VIII

32. Record Cards of Trainees who Pass

Out—Follow-up
(a) The form of the record card to be maintained in respect of ex-trainees of the
Industrial Training Institutes/Centres is given in Appendix IX.
(b) The record cards should be maintained to ensure that the passed out trainees have
been able to secure employment. If employed, the name of the employer, etc. should
be given, failing which, the whereabouts of the unemployed trainees should be shown
in the record cards.
(c) The instructional staff should be advised to mix with the trainees and create confi-
dence in their minds so that they may, after leaving the institutes/centre keep in
close touch with the instructors. When the trainees present themselves for receiving
the National Trade Certificates, the importance of keeping the Principal informed
about their future careers must be impressed upon them. They should also be asked
to report periodically, say every three months, till they succeed in getting employ-
ment. Further, with a view to encourage correspondence by the trainees, they may be
permitted to write letters to the instructional staff without having to pay for the
postage. Such a system is already in vogue in the employment exchanges where free
postage cards are issued to the registrants. Similar cards can be issued to the trainees
who pass out from the institutes/centres.
33. National Trade Certificates
(a) The marks secured by the trainees would be indicated in the provisional certificates
only, which would be issued to the trainees soon after passing the All India Trade
Test. The format of Provisional National Trade Certificate for regular and private
candidates w.e.f. the session August, 1989 and onward is shown at Appendices X and
X A respectively.
(No. DGET-8(5)/88-CD, Dt. 5.9.89)
(b) Trainees who pass the trade test will be awarded a National Trade Certificate by
National Council for Vocational Training.
(c) The format of National Trade Certificate awarded to regular trainees of the
Industrial Training Institutes/Centres is given in Appendix XI. The format of the
National Trade Certificate awarded to private candidates is given in Appendix XI A.
(No. DGET-29(7)/86-CD, Dt. 12.3.86)
(d) The requisite number of blank Trade Certificates will be supplied by the DGE&T,
Government of India, Ministry of Labour, to the State Directorate dealing with
Craftsmen Training Scheme as per their actual requirement. Each certificate should
be numbered serially.
(e) The Secretary SCVT will supply the blank forms to the Principals concerned. The
entries should then be got filled after thorough checking by the Principal. The certifi-
cates duly filled in should be sent to the Secretary SCVT for signature in ink.
(f) The entries in the certificates may be typed or written in calligraphy and the content
of the certificates should only be on the over side and no particulars should be on the
reverse side.
(g) The State Director, after filling in the entries and signing the certificates in ink, will
send these certificates to DGE&T HQ for obtaining the facsimile signature of the
Deputy Director General of Training/Secretary, NCVT. The State Director may dele-
gate the power of Secretary, SCVT, to an officer not below the rank of Joint Director
for signing of these certificates.
(No. DGET-19/11/96-CD dated 27.5.1997)
(h) After affixing the facsimile signature, the certificates will be sent back to State
Directorate for onward transmission to the concerned Principal of ITIs/ITCs.
(i) The certificates should be countersigned by the Principals of the ITIs concerned
before issue.
(j) The trainees who fail only in the business management Paper should not be pre-
cluded from getting National Trade Certificates. Candidates will be entitled to an
additional Certificate as and when they secure a pass in the Paper.

34. Procedure for Issue of Blank Certificates

Refer to Appendix VIII.
35. Issue of Duplicate Trade Certificates
(a) The trainees should apply for the issue of duplicate certificates to the Principals of
training institutes where they had undergone training. The Principals should ensure
that the trainees have deposited a sum of Rs. 20
 (ii) representatives of industries who are running training schemes of
their own; and
(iii) a representative of the labour organisation.
3. A few selected centres of each State should be inspected once a year by the
officers of the Training Directorate of the Ministry of Labour.
4. Regional officers should be appointed to assist the State Councils and the
Central Government in formulating new proposals and carrying out the
policies of Central government and the National Council and to carry out
detailed inspection of each centre at least once a year on behalf of the
National Council.
(c) The inspection questionnaire is given in Appendix XII.
(d) One of the functions of the National Council for Vocational Training is to arrange for
ad hoc or periodical inspection of training institutions in the country to ensure that
the standards prescribed by the Council are being followed. This will be exercised
through the Directorate of Training, Ministry of Labour. Training institutes shall
afford all facilities for inspection to the staff of the Directorate of Training, Ministry
of Labour, or any member of an examining body set by the National Council for
Vocational Training or any member of a committee appointed by the National
Council.
(e) The requisite information regarding inspections carried out may be furnished
biannually in the proforma attached (Appendix XIII) so that the information relating
to the half-year ending 30th June and 31st December is received by the Directorate
General of Employment and Training (Statistical Section) by the end of the month
following the period under review. If the return is not received from any State
Government, it will be assumed that no inspection has been carried out.
(f) A. 1. Every year a team of inspecting officers from the Directorate General of
Employment and Training will select as many centres as possible for inspection in
each State.
2. The State Directors will select as many centres as possible for inspection in
each State.
3. At the conclusion of these inspections a seminar will be organised by the
State Directors wherein the Principals and the inspecting officers of the
Directorate General of Employment and Training will participate.
Non-official members, particularly industrialists who have participated in
tripartite inspections may also be invited in the seminar. The final report by
the tripartite team will be discussed in the seminars.
4. The deliberations and the report of this seminar, along with the major
deficiencies and defects noticed and recommendations for removal, will be
brought to the notice of the Director of Training, Directorate General of
Employment and Training and followed up in this Directorate for early
removal of the deficiencies noticed.
5. In addition to above, a seminar may be held at the state level at the State
Directorate wherein all the Principals of the Industrial Training
Institutes/centres in the State, officers of the State Directorate and other
concerned will participate. Such a seminar should be held once in a year and
24

preferably about two months before the meeting of the State Governments
representatives concerned with training schemes.
6. The object of the seminars at the State level will be to discuss the
administrative as well as technical matters relating to the implementation of
the training schemes at the State level whereas the object of the seminars as
are held at present is to discuss the discrepancies noticed during the
inspections and the methods for improvement.
B. The Deputy Director General of Training will organise a proper plan of inspection of
the training centres by the officers of the Directorate and intimate this to the Direc-
tors at least two months in advance so as to enable them to plan tripartite inspections
and seminars.
C. A number of States have enquired as to what should be the proforma for reports of
the tripartite teams. This matter has been carefully considered and it has been felt
that while the tripartite teams may not be tied down to furnish their reports of
inspection of Industrial Training Institutes/Centres in a prescribed proforma, the
reports of the tripartite teams should, however, reflect the general picture of the
Institute or Centre. The members of such a team may be informed accordingly and
requested also to embody the information in their reports on the following specific
matters:
1. (i) the training arrangements in the Industrial Training Institutes/Centres,
specially in regard to the methods adopted and the arrangements for
training;
(ii) the adequacy or otherwise of the machine tools and equipment provided
for training;
(iii) the general calibre of the instructors in regard to their knowledge of the
theory and practice of the craft; and
(iv) the discipline of the trainees.
2. Whether the training imparted is up to the standard and skill obtained is as
per the need of the industry.
3. Any suggestion for improvement.
With a view to ensure the minimum standard of training prescribed by the
NCVT, two inspections of the ITIs/ITCs should be carried out every year, one
by the State and one by the DGE&T on a zonal basis. The DGE&T will carry
out only technical inspection and the State Government/Union Territory
administrations should do administrative inspections of the Industrial
Training Institutes/Centres.
It is requested that in future a statement showing the action taken and/or
proposed to be taken by the State Directorate, etc. to remove the defects and
shortcomings may kindly be attached with each inspection report when
forwarded to the Ministry.
It will be appreciated that the above suggestion will reduce the
correspondence in this connection to a considerable extent from both sides
and will also enable the State Directors to review at the end of each month
the progress of remedial action taken on each inspection.
 The inspections of the industrial institutes would require a close follow up of
the training programmes in order to ensure that the training curriculum
adopted for each trade is in conformity with the prescribed syllabus and the
desired proficiencies are attained by the trainees without running the risk of
wastage due to failures at the conclusion of the course. To achieve the above
objective, the programme of inspecting the Industrial Training Institutes
would have to be intensified. The technical officer of the State Directorate
according to the recommendations of the State Representatives in their
seventh meeting held on 8th and 9th October 1964, would inspect every
Industrial Training Institute twice in a year. During these inspections, their
officers would concentrate on the technical and academic aspects of training
and would offer their concrete and positive suggestions on the improvement
of the standard of training.
It is decided that the Quarterly and Annual inspection of ITIs should be
conducted more vigorously and due attention should be paid by the State
Directorate to the Inspection Reports submitted by the Regional
Directorates of Apprenticeship Training (RDATs).
(No. DGET-19/7/96 – CD. Vol., (IV) Dt. 4.6.1997)
The administrative inspection would be conducted by the accounts officers
and the administrative officers of the State Directorate leaving the technical
officers of the headquarters to devote their attention to the technical
matters. No particular proforma has been prescribed for administrative
inspections.

37. Educational Tours by Trainees

The following concessions are admissible to trainees of the Industrial Training Institutes/
Centres for their educational tours:
1. For the purpose of obtaining an idea of the actual working conditions, trainees from
Industrial Training Institutes/Centres, nearing completion of their courses, may be sent
for a week to nearby workshops.
2. The trainee will be entitled to a daily allowance at par with the minimum rates payable to
group ‘C’ employees per day and second class railway fare for to and fro journey.
(No. DGET-12(11)/81-TC, Dt. 11.6.82)
3. Each party of trainees has to be under the charge of a supervisory staff whose absence
from the Institute will be treated as on duty for the period of tour.

38. Grants to Industrial Training Institutes/Centres

(a) Training Grant
A training grant is allowed to each Institute/Centre @ Rs. 200 per month per trainee for
engineering trades and Rs.150 per month per trainee for non-engineering trades to cover the cost
of the following:
1. Raw materials
26

2. Consumable stores such as oil, steel, cotton waste, etc.

3. Replacement of hand tools
4. Repairs to equipment on account of wear and tear
5. Cost of stationery for training purpose (not for office)
6. Cost of light, water and power.
(No. DGET-19/12//95-CD, Dt. 16.5.1997)
(b) Provision for Maintenance
A provision of maintenance head of 1–3 per cent of the total cost of machine in an ITI in the
annual budget every year should be made. This norm would, however, be applicable to machine
tools and related equipment only. For this purpose, the Principals of the ITIs may be delegated
full powers for repair and maintenance of the machinery, tools and equipment and separate
budget for this be provided to him or her. Efforts may be made to get the cooperation from
industry. Wherever possible, cooperation from industry could be sought to overcome neglected
machinery problems in the ITIs.
(No. DGET-19(3)/89-CD, Dt. 31.3.89)
(No. DGET-19(7)/196-CD Vol-III, Dt. 19.5.1997)
(c) Adequate Funds
Adequate funds should be provided by State Governments/UTs for proper maintenance of
equipment and availability of adequate raw material.
(No. DGET-19(7)/90-CD, Dt. 25. 5.90)
(d) Contingent Grant or Contingent Expenditure
1. Postage stamps/stationery
2. Purchase of Government publications
3. Repairs to and washing of workshop clothing
4. Freight
5. Mazdoor hire and cartage of stores
6. Miscellaneous expenditure at the Training Institutes and
7. Contingent expenditure at hostel. Contingent expenditure does not cover expenditure on
items like rent and taxes in respect of hostels, repairs to building, etc.
(e) Technical Books and Magazines
1. It is necessary for each Institute to have technical books, technical magazines and other
books related to the trades taught at the Institute for guidance of instructional staff and
trainees. For this, an expenditure of Rs. 5/- per month per trainee is allowed.
(No. DGET-19(8)/99-CD, dt.7. 2000)
2. The orders prescribing the technical books for libraries at State Directorates and Indus-
trial Training Institutes/Centres are circulated by DGE&T from time to time. These
books are suggestive one and out of these only those books may be purchased which are
technically considered to be of immediate value to the State Directorate.
3. In view of the fact that the existing provision of Rs. 5/- per trainee per month for purchas-
ing technical magazines and books for the libraries at the ITIs is inadequate for setting up
 technical libraries on a proper footing, an additional initial expenditure is considered nec-
essary for the purpose.
At the time of establishing a new ITI, initial expenditure for the setting up of a library will
be as follows:
(i) For an ITI with seats up to 256 Rs. 10,000.00
(ii) For an ITI with seats more than 256 Rs. 20,000.00
(NO. DGET – 19(12)/95-CD, dt. 2.9.1996)
4. The entire initial expenditure mentioned above involved in the setting up of the technical
libraries at the Industrial Training Institutes shall be utilised for the purchase of techni-
cal books only.
5. As regards the furniture required to be supplied for technical libraries, no additional
expenditure will be involved because essential furniture for this purpose has already been
included in the list of furniture for the Industrial Training Institutes, which has been
indicated at Appendix XXIII.
(f) Sports and Recreation Grant
An expenditure of Rs. 10/- per trainee per month is allowed for recreation (newspapers etc.) of
trainees.
(No. DGET-19(12)/95, Dt. 2.9.1996)
(g) Medical Grant
An expenditure @ Rs. 20/- per trainee per month is allowed to cover the cost of medicines and
other requirements of the dispensary at the Institutes.
(No. DGET-19(12)/95-CD, Dt. 2.9.1996)
(h) Cost of Stipend: Refer Para 26
(i) Cost of Trade Testing: Refer Appendix VIII
(j) Cost of Workshop Clothing: Refer Para 28
(k) Travelling Allowance: See Item 2 of Para 39
(l) Maintenance of Building etc.
No fixed scale has been laid down to meet the cost of maintenance of buildings, furniture, rent
rates and taxes. This will depend on the individual requirement.
(m) Maintenance of equipment: Refer Para 40(b) and (c)

39. Statistical Returns Pertaining to Craftsmen

Training Scheme
(a) Four statistical returns proformas pertaining to Craftsmen Training Scheme as pre-
scribed viz. TS-1, TS-2, TS-3 and TS-4. The statistical returns prescribed are
required to be sent annually by the ITIs/ITCs to DGE&T, New Delhi through State
Directors. State Directors may send the consolidated return to DGE&T in respect of
 ITIs/ITCs in their state. The information in respect of Government as well as private
institutes may be sent separately and the same proformas should be used for the
purpose.
A set of these proformas is given in Appendix XIV (TS-1), Appendix XIVA (TS-2),
Appendix XIV B (TS-3) and Appendix XIV C (TS-4). The information as per these
proformas may kindly be sent to the statistical section (Training), DGE&T, Ministry
of Labour, 2-A/3 Kundan Mansion, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002.
(DGET-14(6)/87-TC, Dt. 31.1.91)
(b) State Directors may send the computerised returns in respect of Craftsmen Training
Scheme. The return should include details like trainees admitted, passed out train-
ees, their placement, drop-outs and certificates pending to issue.
(No. DGET-19(18)/96-CD, Dt. 30.4.97)

39(i) Management Information System

Management Information System is to be established both at the State HQ and the regional HQ
of big states for a good networking between the State Training Directorates, industries and the
DGE&T to facilitate the planning and decision-making, both at State and National level. For
bigger states, similar Management Information System may be established at regional HQ of the
State.
(No. DGET-19/19/96-CD, Dt. 19
 (d) The following factors should be taken into consideration while deciding the
location of new ITIs/ITCs:
1. Availability of sufficient electric power.
2. Employment potential of the trade(s) in the region.
3. Industrial concentration or potential of development of industry in
the area.
4. Availability of suitable land.

40 (ii) Streamlining the Procedure for Opening

ITIs/ITCs
It has been noticed that in the recent past there has been mushroom growth of ITIs/ITCs in the
some states and many of these have been opened without adequate consideration of employment
potential in the region. Fresh proposals regarding trades to be taught at any training
institute/centre are ordinarily initiated by the State Councils for Vocational Training, on the
recommendations of the Local Advisory Committees attached to the institutes/centres. The
authority to start the training programme and to issue certificates on completion of training in
new trades, offering employment opportunities in local areas, rests with the State Council for
Vocational Training, if the training programme in such trades is not to last for more than five
years. For programmes of longer duration, proposals to start new trades should be referred to the
National Council for Vocational Training.
The proposal regarding streamlining of procedure for opening of new ITIs/ITCs was discussed
in the 32nd and 33rd meetings of the National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT). The
Council decided that applications of ITIs / ITCs are required to be scrutinized and sent to
DGE&T headquarters for their concurrence keeping in view the following points in respect of the
district/ block where new ITIs/ trades are to be introduced.
(i) Total number of ITIs/ ITCs already in existence in the district / block where the new
ITIs/ITCs are proposed to be introduced.
(ii) Total number of seats trade-wise in the existing ITIs/ITCs.
(iii) Forecast of skilled manpower, requirement for the proposed trades in the next five to
10 years period.
(iv) Number of trainees passed out from ITIs/ITCs on the live registers of employment
exchanges.
While considering the proposal to open new ITIs/ITCs a Committee, under the Chairmanship
of State Secretaries dealing with Vocational Training with adequate representation of bodies of
industry, trade and commerce and workers’ organization, be constituted and the recommenda-
tions of this committee be made as basis for according permission for opening new ITIs/or intro-
duction of new trades.
Apart from the four points mentioned above, which are to be kept in view at the time of
opening new ITIs, the above Committee should also examine the financial liability of private
organizations proposing to open private ITCs, adding trades/ units. For a government ITI, the
required posts should be sanctioned by the concerned finance department before opening of new
ITIs, and the Committee mentioned above should ensure that the land and staff are sanctioned
and sufficient provision of funds for purchase of machinery are available before opening a new
government ITI, or adding trades/units in the existing ITIs.
(No. DGET-19(17)/199-CD, Dt. 20/27.12.1999)
30

41. Establishment of Industrial Training

Institutes/Centres, Donations by Private
Bodies—Association of their Names with the
Names of the Centres
It was agreed that wherever private bodies offered to provide buildings and land for the
establishment of Industrial Training Centres, such offers should be accepted for the names of the
Industrial Training Centres, provided they agree to provide the land and 80 per cent of the cost of
the building (administrative block and workshop). The building, however, should be according to
the pattern laid down by the Building Project Team of the Committee on Plan Projects.
Tax benefit is available under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) for establishment and
running of institution for Vocational Education and Training in rural areas of towns, which
consist of population of less than five lakhs.
(Notification No. 11320/F.No. 38/FB/2000-TPL, dated 6th April, 2000)

42. Introduction of New Trades, Change of Trades

and Expansion of Industrial Training
Institutes/Centres
(a) Proposals regarding trades to be taught at any training institute/centre are ordinar-
ily initiated by the State Councils for Vocational Training, on the recommendations
of the local committee attached to the institutes/centres. The authority to start train-
ing programmes, issue certificates on completion of training in new trades and offer-
ing employment opportunities in local areas rests with the State Councils for Voca-
tional Training, if the training programmes in such trades is not to last for more than
five years. For programmes of longer duration, proposals to start new trades should
be referred to the National Council for Vocational Training. For this purpose, the
State Councils should carry out surveys in the Proforma given in Appendix I.
(No. 3/203/68)
(b) The following considerations should be taken into account while formulating propos-
als for the introduction of additional seats:
1. Utilisation of the existing idle capacity at the Industrial Training Institutes by
conversion of the surplus seats from the trades in which there is no demand to
the trades for which there is a pressing demand.
2. Present demand as measured by the number of applications received at the
time of admission.
3. Potentialities as assessed on the basis of specific developments in the region,
e.g. growth of industry in the neighbourhood etc.
4. Potentialities as assessed by the employment market information surveys,
wherever those are conducted.
5. Employment potential or availability of further apprenticeship training facili-
ties in the trades.
(TC/TP-3(167)/66)
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book-stall."

"Absurd! As if he would not have plenty of time, after I am

gone. Well, you can help me to take all these packages
nearer. One—two—three. Let me see—there were eleven,
besides my two trunks."

"He told us to stay here till he came back."

"That is always the way. He likes to put off till the last
moment; and I hate not having plenty of time. There! I
knew it! The bell! I shall be left behind. Jean, bring what
you can."

To see the true British female, untrammelled by etiquette,

one only needs to view her in full career along a platform,
charging the wrong train. Restraint at such a moment
vanishes, and aristocratic repose is nowhere. Sometimes
the true British male condescends to show his undisguised
self in a like manner; at least, so far as flurry and flying
coat-tails are concerned; but more commonly his rôle is the
dignified punctuality, which has not five seconds to spare,
yet which never expects anything so preposterous as that
he should be left behind.

Jean overtook Madame Collier, close to the train.

"Don't get in, aunt. This is not yours."

"Not for Folkestone! You are sure?" Madame Collier released

the door-handle with a gasp of relief. Her short skirts were
tucked up, as if for the wading of a Dulveriford marsh; and
her poke bonnet was crooked with mental agitation. Jean
gently pulled the bonnet straight, and led Madame Collier
again to the forsaken heap of packages.

"I almost wish we had arranged to go with you as far as

Folkestone."

"What for? Nonsense, Jean? Mere waste of money. I hate

travelling, but I know how to manage. I'm not a minikin
finikin creature, like Sybella Devereux, afraid to put my
nose inside a train without somebody to back me up. That's
not my sort!" She certainly did not look minikin or finikin,
seated on a small hamper, with her strongly-outlined face
and vigorous personality.

"But you don't like going alone."

"Who said I did? Doing a thing doesn't mean liking it, nine
times in ten, with people who are worth anything. It only
means not being beaten. I don't like going to France at all,
if you come to that. People, are not born into the world just
to do what they like," declared Madame Collier, mopping her
countenance with a handkerchief of large and substantial
make. She disdained what she called "those flibbertigibbet
squares," patronised by modern ladies. "It's pretty much
the other way commonly, if one's got any stuff in one. I
hate Paris—great frivolous place—and that's exactly why I
have to live there. If I wanted to go, I shouldn't be
allowed."

"Is one never allowed to do what one wishes?" asked Jean.

The doctrine was not new to her, but it sounded dismal.

"Well—some people sometimes—perhaps. Soft folks need a

lot of bolstering up, and hard ones take a lot of knocking
down. I've had most of the knocking down work. Not much
of feather-beds or dainty pillows. And I've needed it, of
course, or I shouldn't have had it. People aren't bothered
without reason. My corners had to be scraped off, I
suppose; and they're not all off yet," added the good lady,
showing unusual self-knowledge. "That's why this has
come, just when I thought I was settled for life. Nobody
ought ever to think that, I do believe; for there's never any
knowing what will come next. The Trevelyans haven't much
softness about them; and you are a Trevelyan. You won't be
tucked up on a feather-bed all your life. There's more to be
got out of you than that."

"I hope so!"

"Anyhow, I'd sooner be the one to do things for other

people, than be one of the logs that make things for others
to do," said Madame Collier. "Till I'm old and ill, I mean.
There's the whistle."

"Only for this train."

"And I believe it is mine, after all. Look at the clock. Well—

too late now," resignedly. Then, reverting to a former
remark, "No, I don't want you all the way down to
Folkestone. What's the good? I've no notion of dragging out
good-byes. When a leg has to be cut off, the sooner it's
done, the better! There's one thing I want to say to you,
Jean. About your father—"

"Yes."

"He isn't so young as he was. Only sixty, and that's not old.
At least, it needn't be. A man with your father's
constitution, who has lived as he has lived, needn't be old
at seventy. But he ought to have common-sense, and not
expect to do everything the same as he did at thirty. You
needn't fancy things are wrong—only keep watch, and be
reasonable for him, if he won't be reasonable for himself."

One of the inevitable changes, which come sooner or later

to us all as life rolls on, had come to Jean Trevelyan, after
years of a steady jog-trot in one groove.

Madame Collier had received an unexpected call to a new

sphere of work. Her husband's only brother, M. Arnaud
Collier, died suddenly, leaving a semi-invalid wife and nine
children, with small means. The widow was weak and
incapable, and the older children were boys, none over
sixteen in age. An appeal for help, made to Madame Collier,
met with a prompt response.

Why not? She was no longer a necessity at Dulveriford

Rectory; her work there might be looked upon as
accomplished. Not a doubt could exist as to where lay the
greater need. Jean at twenty was fully competent to
manage her father's small household: the widow was not
competent; and Madame Collier, at fifty-five, was a strong
woman still.

Feelings and wishes existed, of course. Madame Collier

would be grieved to bid farewell to her home of many years.
She hated travelling, as she said to Jean; detested children;
and loathed change.

Moreover, Mr. Trevelyan and Jean would suffer at parting;

for with all her ruggedness, Madame Collier had been a
tried friend to them both. Sincere affection existed on either
side, beneath a shell of reserve. What of all this? Nay, what
of the fact that the loss of her personal income would entail
some measure of straitness upon the Rectory household?
The question, as it came before their minds, was not at all
what any of them might like or wish, but simply, what was
the right thing to do? If Madame Collier and her money
were needed in France, then she had no business at
Dulveriford. The stern Trevelyan sense of duty rose in its
might, and settled the question without delay.

In one week, Madame Collier had wound up her English

affairs, had packed her personal effects, and was on the
road.

Mr. Trevelyan and Jean accompanied her to London. Mr.

Trevelyan had business in Town, and he counted it a good
opportunity to give Jean a little change.

"There it is! There's the bell! Jean, I can't wait any longer.
My train will be off, I know. We are on the wrong platform.
Tell your father—"

"Here he comes!"

"Stewart, I am losing my train."

Mr. Trevelyan seemed to be chewing the cud of meditation.

He surveyed his sister and her regiment of parcels, with a
gaze which found utterance in the query—

"Why did you not bring another trunk?"

"They charge so for luggage abroad. You saw what I had

before, so there's no need to bother. If my train is off, I
declare I will not cross at night. I'm quite determined. If I
have to be drowned, I'll be drowned in daylight."

Mr. Trevelyan signed to a porter to come near.

"Folkestone train?" he said.

"Just coming in, sir."

"Bring these packages."

"Well, you are right for once, but I hate putting off till the
last moment; it's such a risk. Make the man bring
everything. Eleven altogether—a roll of shawls, two
bandboxes, two hampers, two bags, two brown-paper
parcels—"

"Come along!" quoth Mr. Trevelyan.

"I mean to have all these with me. Not in the van."

"Come, Marie."

Madame Collier obeyed, then broke loose, and rushed

ahead, peering into one carriage window after another, as
the train backed into position.

"Not a smoking carriage. I can't stand smoking! It ought to

be put down by Act of Parliament. I declare there's nothing
but smoking carriages. Bah!" with ineffable disgust in the
twist of her nose and mouth. "No, not there, Stewart! I
won't be close behind a smoking carriage. And not too
much in front. If there's a collision, people in front are sure
to be killed. Not too far behind. If the train should be run
into by an express—No, I must have a corner seat, close to
a window, going forward."

It was not easy to meet all these requirements, but at

length Madame Collier was placed, and the porter disposed
of her belongings. Madame Collier counted and recounted,
lost and found each packet in succession, fee'd her porter,
and woke up to the consciousness of few minutes
remaining. A frizzly-haired young woman on the opposite
seat was bidding farewell to a frizzly-haired young woman
on the platform, their heads filling the open window, while
their shrill voices ran fast. Madame Collier, finding herself
thus debarred from her own relatives, proceeded to clear a
way with scant ceremony:

"Now, young woman! It's my turn, if you please."

"What an old fogey!" murmured audibly the aggrieved

individual outside.

Madame Collier disdained to notice the utterance.

"Things are all right now, I do believe," she said, breathing

hard with her exertions. "Mind, Jean—I shall want to hear
all about everybody. Don't forget to tell me if any more
comes out about that man Barclay. And mind you don't go
alone to his cottage. Give my love to Evelyn Villiers, when
you see her. I wish she had come home before I left. She
always was a favourite of mine, though you mayn't think it.
Why, there's Jem!"

Jean and her father turned: and Jem Trevelyan came swiftly
up.

"Just in time!" he said. "What a crowd! I was afraid I might

miss you all. Well—" and his hand grasped Madame
Collier's, "so you really are off?"

"Yes; I'm off!" Madame Collier's rugged features worked,

and a tiny pool of water stood outside each eye, like a
minute tarn upon a mountain height. "I'm off!" she
repeated huskily. "It isn't what I should have chosen—of
course. People are not allowed to choose for themselves—
commonly! So much the better, perhaps."

"When they are, they often make a mess of it."

"You're right there! But this isn't choosing. It just—has to

be!" She was obliged to haul out the big pocket-
handkerchief, since those two little tarns were growing
bigger, and threatened to give birth to rivulets. "Leaving
Jean, you know—and all! But there! What has to be, has to
be. Rose Collier is no more good than an infant. Can't think
what business such people have to marry! I've got to go,
though—of course."

"Paris is no distance off in these days. You'll soon be

running over to see us all again. And we will take care of
Jean."

"Yes, do!"

Jean was quiet and rather white. Laying a gloved hand on

her aunt's, she was amazed to have it carried to Madame
Collier's lips.

"Aunt Marie! Don't!"

"You'll be a good girl, I know, to your father!" jerked out

Madame Collier, thrusting away the hand, as if ashamed of
her own emotion, while her chest heaved. "I'm sure to have
left—something—behind me! Eleven packages—and—But
I'm glad to have seen you again, Jem. Oswald was to have
been here. Didn't come, of course, just at last. And they
said you were—out of Town."

"Till late last night," said Jem, touched by Madame Collier's

manful struggles. He had not known before the strength of
feeling which underlay her rugged shell. He bent forward,
with a glance of apology towards Jean, and murmured
something into Madame Collier's ear.

"I can't hear. Say it again. No—really? I am glad! Things do

come about queerly. Mind you don't change your mind. Oh,
keep off—there's the whistle. Don't get knocked down and
killed, whatever you do. I wouldn't have that on my
conscience! Good-bye, Stewart. Good-bye, Jean. Keep off—
trains are so dangerous. I am glad, Jem! Bah, what a whiff
of tobacco! Good-bye."

The poke bonnet continued to waggle till out of sight.

Jem turned to look at Jean.

"Excuse my whisper," he said. "I'll tell you by-and-by what I

said."

"It's all right. I am glad you could say anything to please

her."

Jean looked rather forlorn, not disposed to tears, but as if

something had gone out of her existence, leaving a gap,
and as if she did not know what to do next.

Mr. Trevelyan's "Come along!" was a relief. Nobody ever saw

Mr. Trevelyan in doubt as to his next step.

"Where are you staying?" Jem asked, as they moved out of

the station.

"Two streets off," Jean told him.

In some rooms, recommended by a friend. Jean herself

would have liked the novelty of an hotel; but expense had
to be considered: and daily table d'hôte was not in Madame
Collier's line. She believed they would stay three more
nights. Oswald was to have spent this day with them, and
to have taken Jean after lunch to the Academy; but thus far
he had failed to appear.

"I don't know how to manage, if he does not turn up," said
Mr. Trevelyan. "I shall be engaged all the afternoon."
Jem offered himself promptly. If Oswald came not, he would
be entirely at Jean's disposal.

"Thanks! Pity she should waste a whole afternoon indoors,"

said Mr. Trevelyan, after a moment's weighing of
proprieties. "Yes—you are one of us—and a cousin too. I
don't see why not."

"It is only carrying out my promise to Madame Collier. What

shall we do, Jean? The Academy? No, you would rather
keep that for Oswald. What do you say to a trip on the river
—up to Richmond by steamboat?"

CHAPTER II.

OLD FATHER THAMES.

"I'm a woman, sir,—

I use the woman's figures naturally.
. . . So I wish you well,
I'm simply sorry for the griefs you've had."
E. B.
BROWNING.
OSWALD had not turned up when they reached the
lodgings. A note was there, apologising for his failure, which
of course "could not be helped," and promising to appear
next day—a great relief to Jean. His defection had troubled
her sorely, and she was thankful to know—or at least to be
assured—that he was not blameable. Jean believed in
Oswald as of old, loving him with the warmest love she had
at command. No human being had ever yet been dearer to
her than Oswald, and nothing else could equal that delight
of her heart, a day with Oswald. As of old, she lavished pure
gold, to receive brass in exchange.

Still, an afternoon with Jem brought pleasure. She had

always looked up to Jem, rested on Jem's judgment, given
Jem cousinly affection. There was a placid satisfaction in the
certainty that Jem never misunderstood her, which she
could not feel in Oswald's companionship.

The two had not met for more than a year, and Jem studied
Jean carefully through lunch.

She had altered, even during those months, and much more
during the years since General Villiers' death.

Jean had reposeful manners, old for her age. She was tall
and slender; and her features had worked their way to
regularity of outline. A slight droop in the eyelids gave
shade, the month had gained in mobility and sweetness, the
paleness was not sallow in kind. Moreover, the eyebrows
seemed to have grown darker, the lips were redder, and the
hair, for years clipped short, had expanded into a goodly
mass of gamboge-brown.

Of course she had not yet come to her full development.

Who has, at twenty? Unless it be a mushroom specimen of
human nature. But strength and gentleness were there
already, in balanced combination. Jean had not grown like a
crooked apple-tree, all to one side.

Simplicity of dress remained, characteristic in kind. Boots

and gloves were irreproachable. Superfluous trimmings
were non-existent. The severe folds of her skirt gained
grace from the figure they clothed, and the neat cap,
thrown aside during lunch, was almost boy-like in its
plainness; only nothing could look boy-like over that pure
womanly face.

It was the face of one to be not only loved, but leant upon.
You might be sure, so leaning, that Jean would not give way
beneath the strain. Giving way is commonly far more a
matter of weak will, than of weak muscle, bodily or mental.
Jean might break, but she would not bend. It is the feeble
natures that bend. The strong hold out, and rather die than
yield.

Jean studied Jem in return; not quite able to make him out.
A certain burden pressed upon him, which he failed to hide.
The grey eyes were troubled beneath their pleasant sparkle,
and a weight on the forehead drew the brows often
together. Jean had seen him burdened before, and she
always had a theory ready to account for it. True, the
weight to-day was something new, since for years past his
life had seemed to be full of sunshine, yet she reverted at
once to her old explanation. Was it Evelyn again?—Evelyn
Villiers, disturbing his peace? Had he somehow heard that
after nearly four years abroad, she was returning to Dutton
Park?—Nay, that she might already be in London?

"I shall leave you to amuse one another," Mr. Trevelyan

said, rising. "Don't expect me till seven. You will dine with
us, of course, Jem."
Then he was gone, and they made their way river-wards;
Jean with her old sense of repose under Jem's protection,
and her old trust that he was sure always to do right. It was
a confidence soon to have a rude shake.

"I'm perfectly happy, left to myself. There's no need to talk

to me."

Jem looked round, smiling. They had secured good stern-

seats, near the wheel, and apart from other people.

"Some occult meaning underlies that assertion. I don't

fathom it."

"I only thought you might feel bound to amuse me; and I
am not one of the people who need to be amused."

"Profoundly true. But how if I want to hear Dulveriford

news?"

"Evelyn!" flashed anew through Jean's mind.

"I don't know where to begin; and there is not much going
on. Of course you have heard that Canon Meyers is going
away. He will be a great loss, dear old man. Nobody is
appointed yet in his stead . . . Mr. Kennedy has a curate—
that is something new. A very hardworking young man, I
believe—and rather given to arguments. Miss Devereux
thinks him delightful . . . She talks of spending part of
Cyril's vacation at the Brow this autumn, and at Christmas,
he will have done with Oxford. Isn't it odd how she has kept
him away from home? He and I have not once met for
fifteen months."

"I am told that he is a good-looking young fellow."

"Mrs. Kennedy calls him a 'lovely youth!'"

"H'm!"

"And Miss Devereux says he has such a sweetly aristocratic

air."

"And Jean—?"

"Oh, I like him, of course; we always have been friends. He

is too much 'one of England's curled darlings' for my taste;
but when you have a friend, you don't give him up for his
looks. I wish he were not quite so dainty. But I'm speaking
of more than a year ago. He may have changed any
amount."

Jem seemed to be thinking of something else.

"So you have not yet heard who is to be the Canon's

successor! What would you say if it were I?"

Jean laughed as at a joke.

"But seriously! I have had the offer."

"You don't think of accepting it!"

"Yes." Jem was smiling.

Jean showed no pleasure. She asked abruptly, "Do you

mean it?"

"Why not? The one living is nearly seven hundred a year;

the other is not two hundred. What do you think?"

"It doesn't matter what people think . . . I would rather not

give any opinion. One person can't judge for another . . . It
is not my business;" as he waited still. "Everybody will like
to have you at Dutton—of course; How soon do we get to
Richmond?"
"Suppose you answer my question first?"

"I can't. There's nothing to answer. What a horrible jangle!"

as two or three discordant instruments struck up on deck.
"No use to talk against such a noise."

Jem acquiesced, and they sank into silence; Jean turning

away a troubled face. Jem had suddenly dropped from a
high pedestal in her imagination; and how high the pedestal
had been, whereon he was wont to sit, Jean had never
known till now. She was vexed at the strength of her own
pain and displeasure. That Jem should so fail—! Anybody
else except Jem!

Oswald always pleased himself by following the easy path of

what he liked; and nobody ever expected Oswald to do
anything else; but Jem—why, she had always looked upon
him as the living embodiment of self-denial; and here was
he, just like any commonplace man, snatching at personal
advantage the moment it offered itself, forsaking the post of
toil and difficulty, for which he had seemed especially fitted,
and for which he had professed an ardent love. Jean wrung
her gloved fingers together, and could almost have wept in
girlish disappointment at this dethroning of her hero—if she
had been alone.

No more words were spoken till they reached Richmond.

Jem was in no haste to justify himself. Jean mutely followed
his lead off the steamer, across the landing-place, and
through the town to the Park gates. Then Jem paused to
ask—Should they lounge under the trees, or walk to the
White Lodge?

"Walk, please!" Jean answered promptly.

Jem smiled to himself, reading her wish to evade further

questions. He did not mean to let her off; but there was no
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