BOYS TOWN - ITI

BOYS TOWN INDUSTRIAL TRAINING INSTITUTE(ITC):

1. Boys Town was established by Montfort Brothers in 1955 as an Orphanage for the education skill training and rehabilitation of orphans destitute, early school leavers, and other exploited children and youths. These children learn to be proficient in one of the trades in the Industrial Training Institution. Admission to this institution is based solely on the economic background of the applicant. Hence the more needy a child is for help, the surer he can be of a warm welcome to the institution, irrespective of his caste, creed, religion or cultural background.

2. Those youth and children who have the required academic qualification are admitted into the ITI in the following 12 NCVT trades.

1. Machinist(Composite)
2. Machinist Grinder
3. Fitter
4. Turner
5. Electrician
6. IT & ESM (Information Technology & Electronic System Maintenance)
7. Refrigeration & Air Conditioning
8. Welder
9. Carpenter
10. LOMM (Litho Offset Machine Minder)
11. COPA (Computer Operator & Programming Assistant)
12. Cutting & Sewing

3. The training is offered free of cost. And today, for the past 60 years since it came into being, we have an institution that can proudly proclaim that, within its walls, service is rendered in a spirit of love, care and dedication.

4. The trainees here are prepared for the All India Trade Test. While training according to the prescribed curriculum, the trainees are also required to execute actual job works, the type of which they would be required to do when employed after training. Hence besides being a training centre, Boys Town ITC is also a production centre and the proceeds from the works undertaken go in for maintaining and supporting the Institution itself.

5. Boys Town ITI always had a record of very high internal efficiency with all allotted seats being filled. Besides the NCVT groups this Institution is also training groups of youth who are early school leavers, and other exploited youth and children in need of such help. Today nearly 620 students train in the ITI each year, which is almost twice the seat allotted under the NCVT scheme. In terms of internal efficiency which denotes capacity utilization, Boys Town has an efficiency rating of nearly 200%, if capacity for formal training is considered as basic capacity for intake.

6. External efficiency which is the criteria of employability and self-employment has been very high. Boys Town receives each year more requests from industries for trained youth than are on the rolls of the Institute. Both the formal NCVT students and those accredited by Boys Town as Non-Formal trainees find ready and good employment on completion of their training

7. Non-Formal Training for early school Leavers: From the very beginning Boys Town had a programme of training early school leavers who form nearly 85% of our youth and who have no possibility of admission to the formal education. We consider service to this majority of youth who also usually belong to the marginalized sections of society not only as a task in skill training, but also as vital for sustaining the economic and socio-political fabric of our nation. We have expanded the capacity of training such youth and today they form more than half the number of trainees in the Institution. It is also to be noted that Boys Town has Pioneered Training for these children in the more employable traders like Machinist, Turner, Fitter, Electrician, etc. The hundreds who have benefitted from this programme are well employed. Today there are more than 250 such trainees in Boys Town. This programme will see a major expansion in the coming years.