Lok Sabha Question No. 250 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-04
Subject: Apprenticeship Programmes by CPSUs in Jharkhand
Ministry: HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Asked by: Shri Dulu Mahato

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 250

ANSWERED ON 04.02.2025

## APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMMES BY CPSUs IN JHARKHAND

## 250. SHRI DULU MAHATO:

Will the Minister of HEAVY INDUSTRIES be pleased to state:

- (a) whether Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) within the State of Jharkhand have conducted any apprenticeship programmes;
- (b) if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) the details of total number of enrollments made during the last 10 years, CPSU-wise and years-wise;
- (d) if so, the number of such apprentices employed, if any, in each CPSU during the last five years, year-wise; and
- (e) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR HEAVY INDUSTRIES (SHRI BHUPATHIRAJU SRINIVASA VARMA)

- (a) & (b): Ministry of Heavy Industries has only one CPSU in state of Jharkhand i.e. Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited and has been conducting apprenticeship programmes.
- (c): Year wise enrolments made during the last 10 years by Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited is at Annexure.
- (d) & (e): No apprentices were employed during the last five years as company is having financial constraints.

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## Annexure

| Name of the CPSU                    | Year     | Apprenticeship   | Apprenticeship   | National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS)   |
|-------------------------------------|----------|------------------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
|                                     |          | Training (ATS)   | Scheme           | National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS)   |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2015-16  | 149              |                  | 0                                                |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2016-17  | 68               |                  | 84                                               |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2017-18  | 148              |                  | 50                                               |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2018-19  | 176              |                  | 142                                              |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2019-20  | 180              |                  | 0                                                |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2020-21  | 180              |                  | 125                                              |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2021-22* | 0                |                  | 0                                                |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2022-23  | 0                |                  | 0                                                |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2023-24  | 0                |                  | 0                                                |
| Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) | 2024-25  | 0                |                  | 0                                                |

*               No  such  program  was  carried  out  since  2021-22  due  to  financial  constraints  of  the Company.
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