New Delhi : The Directorate General of Training under Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship desires to empanel „Third Party Agencies (TPAs)‟ under the Apprentices Act, 1961.
For this purpose, DGT invites applications from Statutory University or Private University under any provision of the law made by Parliament / State legislature, Technical Institutes affiliated with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), ITIs affiliated with NCVT, registered Industry Associations, Training Providers under NSDA/NSDC, any other educational / technical Institution notified by the Central/State Government, and NGOs. The Institution/organization must have a head office or branch office in any of the States/ UTs that fall under the jurisdiction of the 6 Regional Directorates of Apprenticeship Training (RDATs) of DGT located at Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Faridabad, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Kolkata, and Mumbai.
Institutions/ organizations fulfilling the following criteria and accepts the below mentioned terms & conditions only should apply for empanelment:
a. The agency should have at least 5 years of experience of working in the area of Industrial training/ skilling/ education/ placement/ non-profit activities
b. The agency should have full-fledged office (with expert team in domain area attached with sufficient infrastructure) at the place of their Head-quarters/ Branch
c. The agency should have exposure in mobilization of men, women and youth for the purpose of education, skilling interventions, facilitating wage/ self-employment or entrepreneurship/non-profit activities pertaining to social/community development.
d. Letter of support from atleast 20 establishments to engage apprentices must be produced at the time of application.
e. The agency or any of its related concerns applying for empanelment should not have been blacklisted by any organization and must self-declare the same.
f. The application form can be downloaded from the DGT apprentice website http://apprenticeship.gov.in
g. The filled in application form along with supporting documents must be submitted as a sealed envelope clearly superscribed “Application for Empanelment of „Third Party Agencies‟ under Apprentices Act, 1961 under RDAT____(Location of Nodal RDAT*)____________” and must be submitted to the concerned Regional Director of Apprenticeship Training of the Nodal RDAT* by the date and time stipulated.
* State in which the agency‟s head quarter is located will determine the nodal RDAT. Refer to table below.
Term and Conditions:
a. Agency will be empanelled for a period of three years;
b. Letter of support from atleast 20 establishments to engage apprentices must be produced at the time of application
c. Performance of TPAs will be reviewed by concerned RDAT authority on a quarterly
basis
d. DGT /RDAT will have right to remove any agency from the empanelled list without assigning any reason whatsoever.
e. DGT / RDAT has also reserves the right to modify the term and conditions for empanelled agencies.
f. The empanelled agencies are expected to maintain high level of professional ethics and will not act in any manner, which is detrimental to DGT‟s interest.
g. Applications received after due date & time or without necessary documents will be rejected.
h. DGT/ RDAT reserves the right for rejection of any/all applications otherwise without assigning any reason whatsoever. However, on empanelled agencies, the final decision taken by the DGT Hqrs / RDAT would be final and no further representation in this regard will be entertained.
i. For roles and responsibilities of TPA and other related information kindly refer to the guideline uploaded in the website URL http://www.apprenticeship.gov.in/Material/TPAGuidelines.pdf
6. Selection process schedule will be as under:
a. Applications will be received, by the nodal RDAT concerned.
b. RDAT reserves the right to accept/reject any/all of the applications without assigning any reason thereof.
c. The process of selection of agencies for empanelment will be a two stage one.
i. RDAT concerned to assess adherence to eligibility criteria. For an agency, the RDAT concerned will be based on the State in which its headquarter is located.
ii. A Committee consisting of Regional Director as Chairman will be constituted with 2 officers of RDAT concerned (or from any other RDAT, in case of paucity of officers) and one Officer of the State.
iii. The short-listed agencies will then be called to make a presentation before the Regional Director of the RDAT at a pre-fixed date detailing the concept, creative ideas, experience, capability, strategy, area of operation, etc. of the Agency.
iv. The decision of the Selection Committee is final and binding.
v. RDAT will provide a registration no. to the selected TPA
For List of RDATs , their contact details and Application Format, Click Here
