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Kathmandu Tuesday March 05, 2002 Falgun 21, 2058.
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‘CTEVT
churning out incompetent manpower’
By Chandika Dawadi
KATHMANDU, March 4 : The Council for Technical Education and
Vocational Training (CTEVT) produces low quality manpower, say people related to the
vocational training programme.
‘’CTEVT provides affiliation to private
institutions without studying the feasibility of the institution,’’ said Shova
Kanta Dhakal who runs a polytechnic institution in Chitwan. However, the CTEVT
administration denies such charges and says that the complaints are baseless.
‘’It is a baseless complaint,’ says the
Director of Research and Information Division, CTEVT, Dhruba Prasad Dhungel. He claims
that more than 80 percent of CTEVT trainees get jobs after completing the training
programme. Even the final examinations of affiliated institutions are controlled by CTEVT
itself, clarifies Director Dhungel.
‘’Before providing affiliation to private sectors,
CTEVT studies physical feasibility, manpower and utility of the institution in that
area’’ clarifies officials of CTEVT.
Politicalisation in CTEVT seems to be a major problem, often
raised by junior officials of CTEVT. One of the officials who does not like to be named
said that CTEVT has become a center to receive party cadres and relatives of various
leaders. The Vice-chairman of CTEVT, Saroj Devkota, accepts that political pressure is
rampant in CTEVT.
Vocational Education is very important to a developing
country like Nepal. The skilled oriented education creates opportunities for
self-employment and income-generation activities, which helps to uplift the quality of
life in people.
CTEVT is a government-run Council, which has been given the
responsibility to produce basic and middle level skilled human resources for the economic
development of Nepal. But however, the Council is always targeted for criticism.
"The budgeting system of the Education Ministry is
wrong", says Director Dhungel. ‘’Only 10 percent of the educational budget
is invested on Vocational Education and this is inadequate to train necessary skilled
middle level manpower,’’ clarifies Dhungel.
Currently, CTEVT has been operating 15 schools where nearly
1000 students get training and 125 private institutions affiliated with CTEVT provide
vocational education to 6000 students every year. The flow of students to CTEVT indicates
the importance of vocational training, say officials at CTEVT. More than 60 percent SLC
appeared students failing in the exams, seek vocational training for better employment.
But CTEVT’s capacity is limited. However, the council plans to initiate a technical
training programme in fifteen general schools by annexing the programme, says Director
Dhungel.
‘’The New National Health Policy
(1991),’’ plans to set up a sub-health post in every Village Development
Committee (VDC), so more manpower has to be trained in the health sector, but lacking a
proper budget, CTEVT is now going through a crisis, says Vice-Chairman Devkota.
CTEVT provides training in various fields like automobiles,
agriculture, construction, mechanical, plumbing, welding, electricity, electronics,
computer, health and hotel management and so on.
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