The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship's reported proposal to introduce a ranking of India's Industrial Training Institutes ☐ nificant upgrade of these institutions. The idea is to conduct annual (ITIS) is a good one but urgently needs to be complemented by a sigrankings of ITIS on the lines of the National Institutional Ranking Framework for higher education to help students and potential employers to assess their quality.
The idea is not new: In 2017, the Directorate General of Training had introduced a grading framework to make ITIS eligible for affiliation on the government portal, or financing via a World Bank programme, or for training instructors overseas. This, too, was a good idea but did not appear to make a difference in terms of improving the quality of the ITIs. The key problem is low demand, which creates a vicious circle of low quality.
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