The Government has decided to set up 1,500 new Industrial Training Institutes, ITIs and 5,000 Skill Development Centres in the Public Private Partnership mode in the unserviced blocks of the country. In a written reply to Lok Sabha yesterday, Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge also said that there is a provision to set up 34 ITIs and 68 Skill Development Centres in the 34 districts affected by Left wing extremism under a centrally sponsered scheme. During the last 3 years, 147 new government ITIs and 2,399 new private ITIs have been established in the country.