The Government has decided to set up 1500 new Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and 5000 Skill Development Centres in Public Private Partnership mode in the unserviced blocks of the country. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today, the Union 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.

The Minister informed the Parliament that the Central government plays a role in policy making, setting up of standards and norms, trade testing and certification of the ITIs while they are actually run by the state governments and private entities. During the last 3 years, 147 new government ITIs and 2399 new private ITIs have been established in the country.