29. Organisations like NCERT, CIVE, Regional Colleges of Education (RCEs), SCERTs, SIVEs, Technical Teachers' Training Institutes (TTIs) etc., will be strengthened by providing additional infrastructure and faculty positions to perform their functions effectively for the development of vocationalisation.
30. State Councils of Vocational Education will organise district- wise needs assessment of vocational manpower, through area vocational surveys. NCERT will work out a scheme for need assessment, in collaboration with organisations like SCERTs, SIVEs, RCEs, TTTIs, Industry and other technical institutions.
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DEVELOPING RESOURCES/FACILITIES 31. Curriculum Development Cells/Centres will be set up in SIVEs/SCERTs and other selected professional institutions in specialised fields to design vocational programmes to meet identified needs and develop curricula. NCERT will develop model curricula and guidelines.
32. Training of personnel for Instructional Resource Development will be organised by NCERT, SCERTs, TTTIs, RCEs, CDCs etc. The activity will be coordinated by CIVE at national level and SIVEs at state level.
33. District Vocational Training Centres will be set up by MHRD with adequate facilities to impart skill training to vocational students in diverse vocations. Such institutions will have highly trained and skilled instructors. The facilities and faculty resources at these centres will be shared by vocational students from a number of schools in the area according to a coordinated plan.
DEVELOPING LINKAGES: 34. National Council of Educational Research and Training/ Central Institute of Vocational Education will prepare a guideline document, listing the various organisations/agencies at National/ Regional/State/District levels and indicating broadly the nature of their functions and responsibilities, to develop the right kind of linkage at state and at district levels.
35. NCERT/CIVE, in collaboration with State Institutes of Vocational Education/State Councils of Educational Research and Training will evolve an information system for vocational education to ensure constant communication between the central and state governments, nodal agencies, directorates, district level authorities and the institutions alongwith participating employer organisations.
36. MHRD will take steps to prepare a guideline document indicating the nature and functions of linkages between policy making bodies including Joint Council of Vocational Education, NCERT/CIVE, RCEs, TTTIs, SCERTs/SIVEs, District Coordination Committees, Research and Development Organisations in education and training, District Vocational training centres, etc., the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Board of Apprenticeship Training, Examination and various Certification bodies including Boards of Examination.
37. State Departments of Vocational Education will give directives and guidelines to vocational institutions to develop linkages between schools, employers and voluntary organisations in the community, to facilitate successful implementation of vocational programmes ensuring optimum resource utilisation as well as effectiveness. State departments of vocational education will prepare the scheme for the same.
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(B)VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES 38. Vocational programmes for 8+ students will be introduced on experimental basis on a limited scale in different States by State departments of vocational education. SCERTs/SIVEs shall develop models in the light of the guidelines laid down by JCVE and NCERT. The models already in operation shall be studied by CIVE/NCERT for deciding about the need/justification for further expansion. In engineering trade, however, the Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) wherever considered necessary shall continue to offer vocational programmes for 8+ students.
39. Programmes at 10+ level will be formulated by SCERTs/SIVEs in the light of guidelines laid down by NCERT. The SCVEs shall facilitate the introduction of these programmes on the basis of result of area vocational surveys in selected schools in a phased manner keeping in view the national targets.
40. To provide more oportunities to students for 10+ vocational courses in engineering and technology, 100 more vocational institutions shall be established.
41. JCVE will provide in a phased manner 70% of the higher secondary vocational stream graduates stipend to undergo paid aprenticeship in appropriate industries. The implementation will be carried out by Regional Boards of Apprenticeship Training in collaboration with state departments of vocational education, and other concerned agencies.
42. Tertiary level programmes like Diploma in Vocational subjects, Advanced Diploma Programmes, and Degree Programmes will be introduced in selected polytechnics, affiliated colleges and universities, as well as in special Institutes set up for this purpose. JCVE and SCVEs shall develop schemes for creating such tertiary level vocational education facilities at non-university institutions. For the university level courses, the universities will develop model curricula in collaboration with NCERT/CIVE for starting programmes in vocational education at university departments and affiliated colleges.
43. Entrepreneurial/self-employment skills will be developed in vocational stream students, through curriculum, special training programmes as well as paid apprenticeship facilities.
44. State Departments of vocational education and SCVEs will formulate necessary schemes for the purpose.
45. State Directorates of vocational education will set up career guidance cells at district level. NCERT/CIVE shall formulate suitable norms for the purpose.
46. NCERT/CIVE, SCERTs/SIVEs, RCEs, CDC, TTTIs and other institutes will develop bridge/transfer courses in accordance with the guidelines laid down by JCVE. Suitable schemes for course offering shall be developed by SCVEs.
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(C) PROGRAMMES FOR SPECIAL GROUPS ND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION
Involving Industry/Community: 47. JCVE will evolve schemes to involve the public/private sector industry in vocational education through appropriate incentives/rewards. Also, JCVE would arrange to bring about appropriate legislation to ensure their contribution.
48. JCVE/SCVEs/State departments of vocational education will identify and support voluntary organisations engaged in the vocational education of special groups like women, tribals, handicapped and disabled etc. Suitable scheme for this will be formulated by JCVE.
NON-FORMAL PROGRAMMES: 49. All polytechnic institutions, ITIs, other vocational and technical training institutions, selected higher secondary schools, colleges and special institutes will engage themselves in imparting vocational education through non-formal programmes, to the rural and unorganised sector in a phased manner. Suitable schemes for the purpose,, like the Community Polytechnic Scheme, will be formulated by JCVE for respective categories of institutions.
50. Selected engineering colleges, Polytechnics, Industrial Training Institutes and other Vocational and Technical Training Schools/Institutes will engage themselves in conducting part time vocational courses for the benefit of special groups and those already employed. State departments of Vocational Education will formulate necessary schemes for the purpose and promote their implementation. A suitable scheme for undertaking such activities in selected institutions will also be formulated by JCVE.
SETTING UP SPECIAL INSTITUTES: 51. Special Vocational training institutes for women, tribals and other weaker sections of the society to meet identified needs,, will be established by the State departments of vocational education.
52. Centres for vocational training of the handicapped will be set up in institutions like special institutes of relevant/useful Technology, District Vocational Training Centres, ITIs and Polytechnics to equip this section of the society with appropriate employable skills. State Departments of Vocational Education will formulate necessary schemes for the purpose and promote their implementation through them and/or other concerned departments. JCVE will formulate a central scheme for establishing such units.
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(D) TARGETS AND PREPARATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
TARGETS: 53. For 10% diversion by 1990, provision will have to be made for 2.5 lakhs. In view of the action-already taken) additional requirements for 2.5 lakh students can be met by marginal expansion of the infrastructure and resources but for 25% diversion by 1995 advance action will to be taken by the States and Central Governments in terms of building a requisite level of infrastructure and facilities.
TEACHER TRAINING 54. A phased and coordinated programme for the training of teachers, principals and key officials in the vocational education system using the available infrastructures in organisations like NCERT, RCE, SIVEs, TTTIs, CDCs, State Institutes of Education, will be undertaken. Scheme will be drawn up by concerned institutions in accordance with guidelines given by JCVE. Crash programmes will 'also be organised by concerned institutions to meet the immediate requirements for which a scheme shall be formulated by JCVE.
55. NCERT/CIVE and SCERT/SIVEs will evolve and implement phased programme for the development of text-books and other instructional materials on a large scale to meet the diverse needs of a variety of vocational programmes and to avoid duplication of efforts to the extent possible. JCVE/SCVE will formulate suitable guidelines for the same.
56. State department of vocational education will evolve schemes to utilise community resources, both in terms of pat-time teachers and by way of training facilities in industries, KVIC, KRKs, farms, etc. to enhance the quality of instruction.
FACILITATING EMPLOYMENT: 57. Steps will be taken to change recruitment rules for selection to Government departments at Central and State levels and Public Sector in order to give due weightage to vocational stream graduates in posts appropriate to their vocations.
58. A Monitoring and Evaluation Cell in the Bureau of Vocational Education will be set up with appropriate linkages to CIVE/NCERT, SIVE/SCERT and other agencies involved to facilitate implementation.
59. NCERT/CIVE and SCERT/SIVE will formulate schemes for periodic review of vocational programmes in accordance with the general guidelines laid down by JCVE.