Board of Apprenticeship Training to hold “Industry Meet”, “Job Fair for Apprenticeship Training” on  Oct 14

SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 10: The Board of Apprenticeship Training (Northern Region) under Department of Higher Education, Union Ministry of Education, is going to organize a mega event comprising an “Industry Meet” and a “Job Fair for Apprenticeship Training” on Saturday, 14th October 2023, (9 am) at Government Polytechnic for Women, Bemina, Srinagar for the students who have completed their graduation or diploma in last 5 years..

According to a communique received here today in this regard, the categories of the students eligible to participate would be Graduate in Engineering/Technology (B.E/B.Tech.), graduate in general streams such as B.Sc., B.Com, BA, BHM, BCA, BPT, B.Pharma, B.Sc. Nursing, B.Lib. Sc. and diploma (10+3)

The event will be organized in collaboration with Directorate of Skill Development, Directorate of Industries and Commerce Kashmir and Higher Education Department, Government of J&K besides Industries from different areas like Manufacturing, Tourism, Service, Automobile, Textile, Food Processing Power, Cement, IT/ITeS, Software etc.

More than 100 establishments and over 1000 students are expected to participate in this gala event.

The industries from different sectors will participate in job fair to select suitable candidates as apprentices to facilitate on-the-job training. At the same time, industries can fill their skilled manpower gap and also get financial benefit from Government of India by claiming 50% reimbursement of minimum stipend rate through National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS).

The students selected as apprentice will be benefited by upskilling themselves along with financial support in the form of stipend from the establishments through Apprenticeship Training (On-the-job training).

For additional information, the interested candidates can visit website www.boatnr.org.

Sunil Kumar, Assistant Director and Assistant Central Apprenticeship Advisor, Board of Apprenticeship Training (Northern Region) would be available in Srinagar for local coordination. The officer can be contacted at 93550 77752 and  93049 29845 besides email id: [email protected].