Population Education In Vocational Training Programme

PREFACE
The Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGE&T) in the Ministry of Labour have
conceptualised the Phase-II of the Project “Population Education in Vocational Training
Programme” keeping in view the lessons learnt during the implementation of the Phase-I. The
Phase-II of the Project with UNFPA assistance commenced in July 1996. Under this Project, a
Training Package on Population Education for the Instructors of ITIs has been developed on the
basis of the recommendations of The International Conference on Population & Development
(ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. Simple language has been used in writing the sessions of the Training
Package so that the Instructors of ITIs could deliver lectures with ease and confidence.
This Training Package at the draft stage has been reviewed by experts in a Workshop held at
UNFPA, New Delhi in May 1999. Further, it was pre-tested in the two training courses organised
one each for State Government Coordinators and Instructors at ITI Sirifort, New Delhi and ITI
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, in June 1999 respectively. The suggestions/observations made
during the Workshop and the training courses have been incorporated in the Training Package.
The approach used in the Training Package is participatory, and involves trainees in activities
that help them reflect on and analyse their experiences.
19th Jan., 2000
(S.I. SIDDIQUI)
Director of Apprenticeship Training
Directorate General of Employment & Training
Ministry of Labour, Government of India
New Delhi
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