Type:Preventive Compliance Frequency: Quarterly

Action to be taken:
(a) Practical Training:
Make suitable arrangements in the workshop to impart a course of practical training to each apprentice in accordance with an approved program. Reasonable facilities and access should be given to Apprenticeship Advisers to test the work of apprentices and ensure that practical training is being imparted.
(b) Basic Training:
All apprentices who have not undergone institutional training in a recognised school or other institution, shall before admission in the workshop, undergo a course of basic training.
(c) Facilities for Training:
Apprentices other than graduate, technical or vocational apprentices, shall be provided basic and practical training using syllabus and equipment as are approved by the Government. Graduate, technical or vocational apprentices shall be provided programmes and facilities as approved by the Government.
(d) Related Instruction of Apprentices:
A trade apprentice undergoing practical training shall be given a course of Related Instruction appropriate to the trade as approved by the Central Government. Any time spent by the apprentice on Related Instruction shall be treated as part of the paid period of work. Related instruction shall be imparted at the cost of the government, but the employer shall provide all facilities for imparting such instructions, when required.

(e) Cost of Apprentice Training shall be borne by the Employer, and partly by the Government as specified in Section 9 (8)



Audit Requirement:
Are facilities for basic and practical training of apprentices being made in accordance with the provisions of the Act ?

Supporting Documents:
Details of arrangements made for practical training and details of basic training undergone by apprentices.

Related Triggers:
Apprentices - Order To Hire Apprentices

Related Keywords:
Apprentices
Training

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Related Sections:
Apprentices Act, 1961
Chapter:Chapter II: Apprentices and Their Training| 9:Practical and basic training of apprentices.:
(1) Every employer shall make suitable arrangements in his workshop for imparting a course of practical training to every apprentice engaged by him in accordance with the programme approved by the Apprenticeship Adviser.

(2) The Central Apprenticeship Adviser or any other person not below the rank of an Assistant Apprenticeship Adviser authorised by the Central Apprenticeship Adviser in writing in this behalf shall be given all reasonable facilities for access to each such apprentice with a view to test his work and to ensure that the practical training is being imparted in accordance with the approved programme:
Provided the State Apprenticeship Adviser or any other person not below the rank of an Assistant Apprenticeship Adviser authorised by the State Apprenticeship Adviser in writing in this behalf shall also be given such facilities in respect of apprentices undergoing training in establishments in relation to which the appropriate Government is the State Government.

(3) Such of the trade apprentices as have not undergone institutional training in a school or other institution recognised by the National Council or any other institution affiliated to or recognized by a Board or State Council of Technical Education or any other authority which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, shall, before admission in the workshop for practical training, undergo a course of basic training.

(4) Where an employer employs in his establishment five hundred or more workers, the basic training shall be imparted to the trade apprentices either in separate parts of the workshop building or in a separate building which shall be set up by the employer himself, but the appropriate Government may grant loans to the employer on easy terms and repayable by easy installments to meet the cost of the land, construction and equipment for such separate building.

(4-A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (4), if the number of apprentices to be trained at any time in any establishment in which five hundred or more workers are employed, is less than twelve the employer in relation to such establishment may depute all or any of such apprentices to any Basic Training Centre or Industrial Training Institute for basic training in any designated trade, in either case, run by the Government.

(4-B) Where an employer deputes any apprentice under sub-section (4-A), such employer shall pay to the Government the expenses incurred by the Government on such training, at such rate as may be specified by the Central Government.

(5) Where an employer employs in his establishment less than five hundred workers, the basic training shall be imparted to the trade apprentices in training institutes set up by the Government.

(6) In any such training institute, which shall be located within the premises of the most suitable establishment in the locality or at any other convenient place the trade apprentices engaged by two or more employers may be imparted basic training.

(7) In the case of an apprentice other than a graduate or technician apprentice, technician (vocational) apprentice, the syllabus of, and the equipment to be utilised for, practical training including basic training shall be such as may be approved by the Central Government in consultation with the Central Apprenticeship Council.

(7-A) In the case of graduate or technician apprentices technician (vocational) apprentices the programme of apprenticeship training and the facilities required for such training in any subject field in engineering or technology or vocational course shall be such as may be approved by the Central Government in consultation with the Central Apprenticeship Council.

(8)(a) Recurring costs (including the cost of stipends) incurred by an employer in connection with *** basic training, imparted to trade apprentices other than those referred to in clauses (a) and (aa) of section 6 shall be borne-
(i) if such employer employs two hundred and fifty workers or more, by the employer;
(ii) if such employer employs less than two hundred and fifty workers, by the employer and the Government in equal shares up to such limit as may be laid down by the Central Government and beyond that limit, by the employer alone ; and

(b) Recurring costs (including the cost of stipends), if any, incurred by an employer in connection with practical training, including basic training, imparted to trade apprentices referred to in clauses (a) and (aa) of section 6 shall, in every case, be borne by the employer;

(c) Recurring costs (excluding the cost of stipends) incurred by an employer in connection with the practical training imparted to graduate or technician apprentices technician (vocational) apprentices shall be borne by the employer and the cost of stipends shall be borne by the Central Government and the employer in equal shares up to such limit as may be laid down by the Central Government and beyond that limit, by the employer alone.
Apprentices Act, 1961
Chapter:Chapter II: Apprentices and Their Training| 10:Related instruction of apprentices.:
(1) A trade apprentice who is undergoing practical training in an establishment shall, during the period of practical training, be given a course of related instruction (which shall be appropriate to the trade) approved by the Central Government in consultation with the Central Apprenticeship Council, with a view to giving the trade apprentice such theoretical knowledge as he needs in order to become fully qualified as a skilled craftsman.

(2) Related Instruction shall be imparted at the cost of the employer and the employer shall, when so required, afford all facilities for imparting such instruction.

(3) Any time spent by a trade apprentice in attending classes on related instruction shall be treated as part of his paid period of work.

(4) In the case of trade apprentices who, after having undergone a course of institutional training, have passed the trade tests conducted by the National Council or have passed the trade tests and examinations conducted by a Board or State Council of Technical Education or any other authority which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, the related instruction may be given on such reduced or modified scale as may be prescribed.

(5) Where any person has, during his course in a technical institution, become a graduate or technician apprentice, technician (vocational) apprentice and during his apprenticeship training he has to receive related instruction, then, the employer shall release such person from practical training to receive the related instruction in such institution, for such period as may be specified by the Central Apprenticeship Adviser or by any other person not below the rank of an Assistant Apprenticeship Adviser authorised by the Central Apprenticeship Adviser in writing in this behalf.