Chandigarh : Haryana Skill Development and Industrial Training Department has directed all nodal officers for apprenticeship training and all departments and state public sector undertakings to consider only valid certificates while engaging apprentices.
The certificates should be issued by National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) and State Council for Vocational Training (SCVT) only and certificates issued by other authorities would be considered invalid, said a spokesman of the department.
He said that it had come to the notice of the department that candidates applying for engagements as apprentices in designated trades are producing ITI or training certificates issued by authorities other than NCVT under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship or SCVT under Skill Development and Industrial Training Department, Haryana or SCVT of any other State Government.
He said that according to the Apprentices Act, 1961, the rebate in apprenticeship training in designated trades could only be provided if the candidate possess ITI pass certificate from NCVT or SCVT and all certificates issued by other authorities are invalid for this purpose unless notified under the Act.
“They have been advised to carefully examine and consider the certificates of the candidates before engagement as apprentices. If there is any doubt of the validity and originality of any certificate of ITI or skill training, then the office of Assistant Apprenticeship Advisor or Principal Government ITI at district headquarters should be consulted. For apprentices in optional trades, the originality of graduation and post graduate degree certificates would also be verified from the concerned issuing authority, the spokesman said.
The field officers of the department have also been instructed to review the validity of documents of the already engaged apprentices, he added.
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