UP Government not to raise private ITI fees for academic session 2023-24

NEW DELHI: In a big relief, the Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath-led government has decided not to increase the fees in private Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) for the academic session 2023-24. The government has kept the same fee structure announced in the year 2018.

The decision was taken keeping in view of the hardship faced by most of the parents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keeping in view the financial problems faced by parents due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation which impacted the economy, “the government had kept the standard fee for the private industrial training institutes fixed for the year 2018 at status quo. In the current session also, it has been decided to continue the fees of private ITIs fixed in the year 2018,” the UP government said in an official statement.

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The CMO also informed that the fee fixation proposal will be made available by April 2024. The minister of state for Skill Development and Vocational Training (Independent Charge) Kapil Dev Agarwal said that on the instructions of the chief minister, these big reliefs have been given to the students and their parents who are going to make their future in the field of vocational education.

He said that a necessary mandate in this regard has been issued by Abhishek Singh, special secretary, vocational education department. He has also instructed the Director, Training and Employment, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow to make available the fee fixation proposal for the upcoming session 2024-25 by the month of April 2024, the CMO said.