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have to take apprentices in their organisation under various trades and offer themtraining as well as scholarship during the training period. It is desirable that a list ofsuch organisation / companies be prepared for the purpose of hands-on training forhydropower related trades in the states.3. The Polytechnics will be offering only a three year (six semester) course from thesession starting in July / August 2005. It is hence desirable that the modifications /revision should be done keeping this in mind.4. Core courses are offered in Polytechnics in semesters 1 to 4. Four to five electivespapers are offered in semesters 5 and 6.5. In a semester, in a subject, 4 hours / week is the contact time available at thePolytechnics. Hence while making the syllabus for a core subject in water resourcesthe load should be 50 hours of Teaching / Tutorial / Practical Training / Exercise.Normally the theory / practical content in a course is equally divided.6. It was suggested that as a major portion of Uttaranchal is hilly and accordinglysome component of High Altitude Engineering should be introduced in the coresubject at Polytechnic / ITI level.7. In the core subject (in the first / second year) for polytechnics some basic aspects ofhydropower related subjects should be included and special elective subjects at thethird year level should be introduced. This will enable the interested students to optfor special elective subject in this area once an interest is created earlier.8. It was suggested that crash courses for passed out students might also be organizedso that they can seek employment in hydropower projects.9. It came out during discussion that the faculty from various ITIs and Polytechnicsinstitutions may need to attend “Special Training for Trainers” for theintroduction of new courses.10. Participants were requested to volunteer for providing help in preparing syllabus forITIs / Polytechnics. The following participants agreed to volunteer to provideadviceS. No. Name Organisation / Address1. Sri S.K. Singhal Asstt. Lecturer, Civil Engg.Govt. Polytechnic, DehradunMobile : 94120043122. Sri D.C. Gupta Principal,Govt. Girls’ Polytechnic, Kotabagh, (Nainital)Mobile: 94129670733. Sri F. Kumar Lecturer, Civil Engg.K.L. Polytechnic, RoorkeeMobile: 98377204064. Sri A.R. Singh Joint Director (Training)Directorate of TrainingsEmployment Uttaranchal, HaldwaniMobile: 9412362204AHEC-IITR/Ua. Govt./syllabus/WR-HPD/200666