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APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING SCHEME

UNDER

THE APPRENTICES ACT, 1961

Categories of Apprentices

There are four categories:

Trade Apprentices (8th, 10th,12th & ITI pass outs)

Graduate Apprentices (Graduate Engineers)

Technician Apprentices (Diploma from Polytechnic)

Technician (Vocational) Apprentices (10+2 Voc.)

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TRAINING STATISTICS Category of apprentice Apprenticeship

seats (in lakh)

No. of

designated

trades

Period of

Training

located utilized

Trade 3.95 2.20 259 6 months to

4 years

Graduate, Technician

&

Technician (Vocational)

1.36

0.64

163

137

One year

Total 5.31 2.84 559

States/UTs No. of estts.-

seats

available

No. of estts-

engaging

apprentices

Seats

located

Seats

utilized

% of

utilization

Andhra

Pradesh

865 717 8751 7145 83%

Bihar 94 42 2116 479 23%

Gujarat 8754 6730 53143 32060 60%

Jharkhand 195 164 3607 3040 82%

Kerala 1642 1231 9706 4227 44%

Telangana 1231 301 2124 1738 82%

Karnataka 4121 3132 36313 19867 55%

Rajasthan 1024 458 12268 4938 40%

Chattisgarh 106 88 1670 759 45%

Madhya Pradesh 275 150 2548 1414 55%

Training Statistics

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States/UTs No. of

estts.-

seats

available

No. of estts-

engaging

apprentices

Seats

located

Seats

utilized

% of

utilization

Goa 286 83 2523 497 20%

Haryana 2099 1457 11882 7532 63%

Himachal Pradesh 316 205 6419 2469 38%

J & K 1299 487 1857 1015 55%

Delhi 278 48 1128 215 19%

Arunachal

Pradesh

3 2 15 4 33%

Assam 12 8 22 19 86%

Chandigarh 35 23 31 29 93%

Daman & Diu 38 11 92 92 100%

Training Statistics (contd..)

States/UTs No. of estts.-

seats

available

No. of estts-

engaging

apprentices

Seats

located

Seats

utilized

% of

utilization

Punjab 1112 551 7051 2645 38%

Puducherry 358 243 1098 489 45%

Odisha 565 471 4788 3865 81%

Maharashtra 10810 5593 94890 47270 50%

Tamil Nadu 2305 815 39807 8105 20%

Uttar Pradesh 3250 2380 37945 21393 56%

Uttarakhand 249 178 3731 1799 48%

West Bengal 1095 744 3255 1325 41%

Training Statistics (contd..)

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NUMBER OF REGISTERED COMPANY

Name of State/UT Number of registered companies

Andhra Pradesh 19962

Andaman & Nicobar Island 188

Arunachal Pradesh 182

Assam 5018

Bihar 12127

Chandigarh 7364

Chattisgarh 6123

Daman & Diu 189

Delhi 194420

Dadra & Nagar Haveli 339

Goa 4813

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NUMBER OF REGISTERED COMPANY (CONTD..)

Name of State/UT Number of registered companies

Gujarat 51750

Haryana 20390

Himachal Pradesh 2987

Jharkhand 6228

Jammu & Kashmir 2263

Kerala 24443

Karnataka 52545

Meghalaya 527

Maharashtra 207860

Manipur 166

Madhya Pradesh 20424

Mizoram 27 8

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Name of State/UT Number of registered companies

Nagaland 148

Punjab 15204

Puducherry 1344

Odisha 11737

Rajasthan 34385

Tamil Nadu 68057

Tripura 201

Telangana 50634

Uttar Pradesh 46333

Uttarakhand 3464

West Bengal 133669

Total 10,05,511

Source: Ministry of Corporate Affairs 9

NUMBER OF REGISTERED COMPANY

1. Amendments of the Apprentices Act, 1961 and

Apprenticeship Rules, 1992

2. Revision of rates of stipend

3. Apprentice Protsahan Yojana (APY)

4. Revamping of syllabus

5. Portal for Apprenticeship Training and APY

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1. Amendments to the Apprentices Act, 1961

and Rules

The Apprentices Act, 1961 has been amended from

22nd December, 2014.

The Apprenticeship Rules, 1992 have also been amended

from 18th June, 2015. Main changes are:

• The system of trade wise ratio of engagement of

apprentices substituted with a band of 2.5% to 10% of

total strength of establishment.

• Establishment can also engage apprentices in

optional trades

• Scope has been extended to non-engineering pass

outs also.

• Establishments have been permitted to outsource

basic training in an institute of their choice.

• Penalties in the form of fine only.

• Engagement of apprentices from other States also.

• Interfacing with Central authorities for

establishments operating in four or more states.

• Aggregation of apprentices through Third Party

Agency(TPA)

• Submission of returns, other information and

contract of apprenticeship through portal and its

time bound approval.

1. Amendments to the Apprentices

Act, 1961(contd..)

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2. Revision of Stipend

Rates of stipend for trade apprentices have been revised &

notified on 22.09.2014. The rates are as follows:

1st year 70% of minimum wage of semi-skilled workers

notified by the respective State or Union

territory

2nd year 80% of minimum wage of semi-skilled workers

notified by the respective State or Union

territory

3rd & 4th

year

90% of minimum wage of semi-skilled workers

notified by the respective State or Union

territory.

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Guidelines of the Scheme are available at:

https://ncvtmis.gov.in/Material/APY_Guidelines.pdf

3. Apprentice Protsahan Yojana (APY)

To encourage establishments especially MSMEs to

engage Apprentices, a new scheme APY launched on

16th October, 2014.

Scheme supports manufacturing units and other

establishments covered under the Apprentices Act, 1961

by giving 50% of the prescribed stipend paid to

apprentices during the first two years of their training.

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3. APY (CONTD..)

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The establishments eligible in the Scheme should have a

strength of at least six.

Sharing of stipend is restricted to 50% of apprentices

engaged by establishment with the ceiling of up to 10

apprentices under this Scheme at a time.

Govt. share of the stipend shall be credited to the bank

account of the apprentice through DBT.

PROCEDURE FOR ENROLLMENT IN APY

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Each RDAT will give advertisement in the leading

newspapers in their region quarterly for inviting

applications from interested employers.

Employers who have already started the

apprenticeship training not earlier than within two

months of publishing of the advertisement and have

registered contract of apprenticeship with States/UTs

will submit application in prescribed formats within 30

days of date of advertisement.

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3. APY (CONTD..)

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Scrutiny of Applications by implementing agency

Applications received should be scrutinized in the order of

preference as given below:-

(I) Manufacturing sector - registered MSMEs

(II) Manufacturing sector - other than MSMEs

(III) Other sectors - registered MSMEs

(IV) Other sectors - other than MSMEs

Issue of Sanction Order by implementing agency

Issue sanction order - will be issued to the employers/

apprentices who fulfill the

guidelines of the scheme

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4. Revamping of syllabi

Syllabi of 6 designated trades namely; Fitter, Turner,

Electrician, Electronics Mechanic, Mechanic Motor Vehicle

and Food Production General have been revamped. Action

is being taken to revamped syllabi for all other trades.

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5. APPRENTICESHIP PORTAL

(APPRENTICESHIP.GOV.IN)

PORTAL ECOSYSTEM

Key Stakeholders & functionality

Industry Candidate

On-line registration Apply on-line for apprenticeship

Post apprenticeship vacancies Process all necessary contractual

Review & approve candidate

applications

Online receipt and acceptance of

offer letters

Search & shortlist candidates

specific to “Trades”, “Region” etc.

Search establishments specific to

“Trades”, “Region” etc.

On-line offers letters to candidates

Process contract on-line for

approvals by concerned agency

Examination, Certification etc.

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PORTAL ECOSYSTEM

Key Stakeholders & functionality

Central Apprenticeship Advisers State Apprenticeship Advisers

Review & approve contracts for

establishments operating in 4 or

more States

Review & approve Contracts of

Apprenticeship for State Public

Sector Undertakings/ Departments

and Private Sector establishments

Review & approve contracts for

Central Public Sector

Undertakings/Departments

MIS for on-line compliance

monitoring in their respective State

MIS for on-line compliance

monitoring

KEY FEATURES

• Single window facilitation for industry to comply to Apprentice Act 1961

• On-line registrations for industry & candidates

• On-line apprenticeship contract approvals

• Self service provisions for industry & candidates to view/download relevant forms/approved documents

• Current view of Apprentices vacancies, enrolled candidates, training details etc.

• Centralised database for compliance monitoring and analytics

• Compliant to revisions to Apprentice Act 1961

• Integrated functionality for “Apprentice Protsahan Yojna”

• Integrated with central PFMS for Direct Benefit Transfer {Apprentice Protsahan Yojna}

• On-line verification of candidate profiles & certificates

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SYSTEM PROCESS – ESTABLISHMENT

ENROLMENT

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System Process – Apprentice Enrolment

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System Process – Contract Approval

System Process – APY Approval

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EXPECTATIONS

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Make awareness of the amendments of the Act and

Rules to the Assistant/Deputy Apprenticeship Advisers

and through them to Industries

Identify new industries and encourage them to engage

apprentices.

Encourage existing establishments to engage

apprentices as per the amended Act.

Time bound registration of contract

Encourage industries to adopt optional trades also

Make awareness campaign at district level in the

industrial cluster

Wide publicity at State level.

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