RECORD placement of 1,753 ITIs trainees in auto majors

Chandigarh,   March 4, 2013: The ITIs in the state got great recognition  from the Auto majors as record 1,753  ITI trainees of 8 ITI's  in Patiala, Rajpura, Bassi Pathana, Kapurthala, Pathankot, Roopnagar, Baba Bakala and Batala got their placement in Maruti, Hero Honda, Godrej, Toyota and Tata Motors from September 2012 onwards.

Disclosing this here today, Anil Joshi, Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister said that ITIs in Punjab were focusing on employability of the trainees by providing them training according to the requirement of the industry. He said that Department had organised an employment fair at Patiala, Rajpura, Bassi Pathana, Kapurthala, Pathankot, Roopnagar, Baba Bakala and Batala. During this job fair more than 1,753 job seekers were selected by the main auto majors. 

Joshi said that the aim of the Technical Education Department was to secure maximum placements for the students and to achieve the target the department was continuously organizing employment fairs. He said that it was the result of endless efforts of technical education department that the number of placements has been increasing up year after year. He said that technical institutes were focusing on weeding out obsolete trades to assure placement to youth getting training there. He said that there were 111 government and 294 private ITIs in the state providing training to over 64,000 youth every year.