Therefore, it has to be ensured that they get some practical training. Now, we have been experiencing certain difficulties in this direction also. We have found difficulty in placing the youngmen who come out of our institutions in various plants and industiral establishments in order that they may acquire skill by practical training. We have found much greater difficulty regarding the full course of apprenticeship in the case of those who do not go through the institutional training first. The measure before the house is intended to remove some grave deficiencies in our arrangements for the training of technical personnel. At any time, in any country it would be a matter of very great importance that for the functioning of its industries there should be technical personnel of satisfactory quality and in number. For India, at this stage of here economic development, when the country is making the maximum effort for rapid industrialisation with a view to achieving what we call self-sustaining progress, there is nothing more important, among the requisites for the success of our plans, than this one factor of the availability of suitably trained personnel in sufficient number. This has persisted for some time. It has been brought to our notice by several committees that we should try to persuade the employers to make arrangements for the training ofapprentices. The committee, of course, touched the question of institutional training also. Defects are to be removed order to make up that deficiency and now we are in a happier situation. In respect of many categories of trained personnel, we have now adequate arrangement for training. In the case of craftsmen to whom this measure refers primarily, I may just give some recent figure. At the beginning of the eleventh five year plan, we had facilities at they are. When we have got enough data and, to my mind, we have already got enough statutory powers to see that these abuses are checked and, if possible, completely eliminated. It has covered a wide range and all the problems were kept in mind while framing it. We should all realise and remember one thing that when this government came to power, the economic condition of the country was very bad.
