Pvt ITI admission norms relaxed

NAGPUR, Aug 29: The State Government has relaxed norms for admission to private and non-aided industrial training institutes (ITIs), which will allow unscrupulous managements to play with the careers of unsuspecting students.

Private ITIs, whose applications for approval and affiliation are pending, have been permitted to grant conditional admission to students. The new procedure has defeated the very purpose of an earlier exercise undertaken by the State Government to regulate admissions to private ITIs. This was to check exploitation of unsuspecting students by managements of non-affiliated and non-approved ITIs.

When these students had taken admission to private ITIs last year, they had little idea that at least eight of the private ITIs were not approved. The private ITI managements admitted students far excess than their approved number of seats. The excess students were denied permission to appear for the examination. These students joined the agitation forcing the government to take measures to keep check on unscrupulous managements.