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Industrial training Institutes (ITIs) of the country are thinking for an image change of institutes to attract more students. The government is thinking to introduce new branding or grading of these ITIs. An official of the Directorate General of Employment & Training, Ministry of Labour & Employment, said, "There are ITIs at various levels, from big to small. A national branding or grading would help us classify the institutes into various levels. This is a demand from the industry, and just as we rate the management institutes, we would be grading the ITIs as well."

This will help students to decide which ITI is good and what are the advantages of getting in a particular ITI. These kinds of ratings will help them to make their decision. This would be a great move as they are working at improving their standards and become more competitive after the government decided to upgrade the ITIs through public private partnership (PPP) model in its 11th Fifth Year Plan period between 2007-2012.

This new initiative will help students to decide if they really want to take admission in a particular ITI due to its overall rating or other advantages. If any state has more than 20 or 30 institutes than overall rating of these institutes would help them to make their decision. Sanjay Shivnani, President & CEO, Vocational Education Training, CL Educate, division of Career Launcher, said, "After we adopt ITIs, our endeavour is to improve the academic standards and the faculty and introduce new programmes."

Presently, there are total 9, 415 ITIs in the country of which 2, 244 are government ITIs and rest of 7171 are private ITIs. These ITIs have altogether 13.29 lakh seats. Duration of the courses range from six months to three years, and the basic qualification is from 8th to 12th Class. Since 2005-06, the government managed to establish 100 ITIs with the help of World Bank and 100 from the help of domestic funding.

This grading system will rate the ITIs on various criteria such as location, faculty, syllabus, infrastructure, passing percentage. All these factors will help a student to decide either he/she really want to take admission in that particular ITI or not.