Maharashtra Cabinet Approves PPP Policy To Transform ITIs Into Global Skill Hubs

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Last Updated:May 14, 2025, 17:45 IST

The policy, developed by the Department of Skill Development, Employment, and Entrepreneurship, seeks to make a future-ready, employable workforce

The Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA) volition service arsenic the strategical spouse for argumentation implementation.

To align vocational acquisition with planetary manufacture standards, the Maharashtra Cabinet has approved a caller Public-Private Partnership (PPP) argumentation aimed astatine transforming government-run Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) into world-class accomplishment improvement centres.

The policy, developed by the Department of Skill Development, Employment, and Entrepreneurship, seeks to make a future-ready, employable workforce by inviting firm and philanthropic information successful grooming delivery, infrastructure upgradation, and program design.

The Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA) volition service arsenic the strategical spouse for argumentation implementation.

Skill Development Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha, addressing a property conference, said that astir 2 lakh students crossed the authorities are expected to payment from this initiative. “Our extremity is to guarantee that ITI students not lone person globally applicable grooming but besides get entree to amended employment opportunities done beardown manufacture linkages," Lodha said.

As per the policy, the authorities volition clasp ownership of ITI campuses and employees, portion backstage partners volition beryllium permitted to present caller courses, put successful high-end equipment, and modernise facilities. Partners tin run nether CSR initiatives and volition person incentives specified arsenic taxation benefits, provided they put astatine slightest Rs 10 crore implicit 10 years oregon Rs 20 crore implicit 20 years. The inaugural volition statesman with 25 ITIs and yet grow to 100, based connected a aviator review.

Centres of Excellence volition beryllium established based connected determination manufacture demands—such arsenic automotive clusters successful Pune and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar—offering precocious courses successful AI, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics, greenish energy, and more.

A occupation placement compartment volition besides beryllium established wrong each upgraded ITI. Importantly, the PPP model ensures that backstage entities cannot assertion ownership implicit nationalist infrastructure oregon rebrand institutions.

All decisions volition beryllium overseen by a government-led steering committee, which ...