In order to increase availability of industry ready skilled workforce in the economy, the craftsman training scheme needs to be strengthened and modernized considering the man power needs of the present day industries.

The scheme provides the training in engineering and non-engineering trades. National Council of Vocational Training / Gujarat Council of Vocational Training is awarding Trade Certificate. There are two major schemes:

At present, there are 82501 sanctioned seats amongst 195 Government Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) under this scheme. Out of these, 2248 seats are for the Scheduled Castes under Scheduled Caste Sub Plan, 15736 seats are under Tribal Area Sub-Plan for Scheduled Tribe candidates, 2876 seats are for women candidates. Over and above Reservation for SC/STs, Disabled, OBCs, Ex-servicemen and women etc. has also been provided as per Government Rules.

During 11th Plan 10 New ITIs started with intake capacity of 1280 seats in the year 2010-2011.These new ITIs were started in Tribal area, Coastal area, Developing Talukas, Urban & Rural area candidate. These ITIs will have a continued investment in term of machineries, tools and equipments, computers, office equipments, teaching aids, books and periodicals and expert faculties for the quality training.

In order to upgrade and update the skills of serving industrial workers, Hi-tech training centre at Vadodara and an Advanced Vocational Training Scheme (AVTS) is imparting training to upgrade the skill at Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Surat and Ankleshwar. Instructor Training Centre at Vadodara is the centre to train teaching and non teaching staff of the Department. It is essential to upgrade the equipments, hardware and software, learning resource material, books and upgrade workshop and class-rooms facilities of these institutes for better functioning.

Directorate of Employment and Training, undertook development of a new strategic framework for skill development through various short term training programme, KVK Centre and Modular Employable Skills (MES) Programme for unorganized sector, specially for construction, service sector and various emerging areas where huge employment opportunities are available. Construction Skill Training Centre(CSTC) ware started in 24 ITIs. Directorate of Employment & Training has obtain ISO: 9001:2008 certificate for ITIs of the State and obtain for more ITIs of the state. Basic infrastructure such as building, equipments/furniture etc. is required for smooth functioning of ITIs. National Council for Vocational Training has laid-down the norms for workshop / classroom and tools and machineries for each trade and unit which is essential to obtain affiliation with NCVT.