Mumbai: The Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Department of the Maharashtra Government has announced the renaming of 26 government-run Industrial Training Institutes ( ITIs ) across various districts. This decision, aimed at modernizing and aligning the institutes with the region’s developmental priorities, was approved during a recent cabinet meeting held on September 30.
According to the government, these ITIs have been renamed after great personalities “who have made outstanding contributions in the field as well as social reformers”. For instance, ITI (Women) in Thane district has been renamed as Rajmata Jijau Government Industrial Training Institute (Women). Similarly, ITI in Pune district’s Aundh has been renamed as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Government Industrial Training Institute and the Nashik district’s ITI has been renamed as Swatantryaveer Savarkar Government Industrial Training Institute.
The announcement comes a week after the state government had announced the renaming of 14 ITIs in the state. After a cabinet meeting on September 23, the state government had announced that the ITIs in Thane and Beed district will be renamed after Shiv Sena leaders Anand Dighe and Vinayak Mete respectively.
There are 419 government ITIs and 585 private ITIs in the state with an objective to provide livelihood-oriented training and to supply skilled manpower to the industries.
Other prominent personalities whose names the ITIs have been renamed after include former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (ITI Mandvi), Rani Lakshmibai (Jalgaon women’s ITI), Savitribai Phule (Pune women’s ITI), Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Ratnagiri ITI), Ramabai Ambedkar (Dadar women’s ITI), Shri Guru Gobind Singh (Nanded ITI), Chakrabarty Raja Bhoj (Karanja ITI), among others.
