Fulfilling the promise of the Punjab Government to provide technical education in the mother tongue, books of 16 different trades of technical education have been translated into Punjabi and work is underway to translate books of other 25 different trades. At the same time, state government has sent a question bank of more than 25,000 questions in Punjabi language to Directorate General of Training (DGT) to send question papers in Punjabi to the students of the state. Earlier, the question papers were sent to the technical education students by the union government only in English and Hindi.
Punjab Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister Charanjit Singh Channi disclosed this on Tuesday during a press conference at Punjab Bhawan. He said that the state government has announced the development of the Punjabi language, on International Mother Language Day.
He said that although it was just a beginning, the complete syllabus in reference books of most of the colleges would be prepared and made available to the students in Punjabi.
The Minister also announced to set up two state campus universities at Gurdaspur and Ferozpur. A MoU has been signed with IIT Ropar to improve the quality of technical education in Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Engineering and Technology, Ferozepur, and Beant College of Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur. IIT Ropar has been made its mentor and a bill to make these two colleges campus universities would be introduced in the assembly in the next budget session.
He informed, “To improve the quality of education, various step have been taken. To prevent copying during examinations, cameras have been installed in the 25 government polytechnics and 114 government industrial training institutes across the state and 40% cameras have been connected online with the headquarters and the process of connecting other cameras is underway.”
Channi said that the seats have doubled in the ITIs of the state as large number of students were not able to get admissions in ITI courses.
The Minister said that the Dual System of Training (DST) was introduced in ITIs to make industrial training institutes. Under this system, the students get theoretical training in ITI for six months and learn practical training in the industry for six months.
This year 413 units have been run under DST and more than 8,500 students will get benefits. Under this scheme, MOU has been signed with Hero Cycle, Trident Limited, Avon Cycle, Swaraj Engine Limited, Mahindra & Mahindra, Federal Mogul Patiala, Godrej & Boyce Limited, Mohali, International Tractors Limited (SNL), Eutectic Industry Ludhiana, Punjab Alkalies & Chemical Limited, Lakme India Ltd, Hotel Hyatt, Hotel Taj, etc.
The state government has set up four new ITIs at Singhpura, Malaud, Adampur and Manakpur Sharif and given sanction to start 19 new ITIs at various places in the state.
