Summary:
Bareilly: Two teams have been constituted here to check irregularities in private industrial training institutes (ITIs) following an order to the effect by director of UP social welfare department. The teams will check whether these institutes have proper recognition and infrastructure and also scan records of SC/ST students from 2014-15 till date. We have to probe whether private ITIs have recognition or not. The fees charged by private ITIs vary but the government last year had fixed the annual scholarship money for students of SC/ST community at Rs 18,400. There have been complaints that a few private ITIs have been pocketing the scholarship money of SC/ST students.Chief development officer (CDO) Satyendra Kumar recently constituted two teams after receiving the order of director of UP social welfare department..