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Nettur Technical Training Foundation 
Motto Techno education for global competence Established 1963, Nettur, Thalassery Type Technical Education Location Bangalore, Karnataka, India Acronym NTTF Website http://www.nttftrg.com/ Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF) is a prominent private educational trust in India, with campuses all over south India. It was established in 1963 with Swiss co-operation, in order to provide purposeful quality education with excellent employment opportunities, with qualifications that are widely accepted by industries in India and abroad. NTTF has one of the most rigorous Diploma Programmes in India with emphasis on practical and hands-on knowledge. NTTF graduates are renowned for their practical skills in the industry. NTTF implements its programme of technical training in mechanical engineering, electronics, information technology & computer engineering and mechatronics streams at postgraduate, graduate, post diploma, diploma and certificate levels. It operates 16 training centers, located at Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Coimbatore, Dharwad, Gannavaram, Jamshedpur, Pune, Tellichery, Trivandrum, Tumkur, Goplapur, Tuticorin and Vellore.
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History
The Nettur Technical Training Foundation - successor to the CSI Technical Training Institute - was established on 12 April 1958 as a joint venture between Church of South India and HEKS (Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen der Schweiz),[1] Switzerland, with the objective of promoting technical education. Per HEKS website, the initial funds for the project was raised as offertory collections from the regional established churches in Zürich, Aargau, Basel and Schaffhausen. It was realized that there was a future for an institution imparting training in precision tool and die-making to augment the rapid industrialization of post-independence India.
On 24 November 1959, Mr. Kaderkutty, managing director of Western India Plywoods, Valapattanam, Kannur, formally inaugurated the training center at Nettur. The first batch of tool and die-maker trainees, 16 boys, were admitted in November 1959. The first batch appeared for NCTVT (National Council for Training in Vocational Trades, presently known as NCVT) in January 1962 and completed the four-year course in 1964. The initial plan was to keep the duration of training to 3.5 years, but the same was later extended to four years from the very first batch.
Alfred Frischknecht, Swiss technical expert, was the first appointee of the HEKS to establish the first training Centre at Nettur, Kerala. He was a great visionary with a passion for talent and a staunch believer in the concept of self-help. He took charge as the first principal of the Nettur centre and successfully surmounted all the teething problems and gave a strong foundation to the institution. After seven years in India, he joined HEKS headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland to be in charge of development projects.
It was realised from its inception that the institution would be a costly one to set up and still costlier to maintain. The Church of South India placed some of its land and buildings at Nettur, Tellicherry at the disposal of the institute. Some buildings were reconditioned and a few new ones were constructed by NTTF. The donor agencies assured the necessary funds, supply of adequate machine tools and accessories and deputation of technical experts from abroad.
1964 saw the establishment of a training centre in Dharwad, Karnataka again on property donated by the CSI church of Karnataka. Another center was established in the same year in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The headquarters was moved to Peenya, Bangalore after the establishment of a world-class toolroom and training center in 1978.
Quality Policy
"Systematic Training with continual improvement, responsive to customer needs & changing technology."
Time Line
The seed sown 50 years ago, the decision to start tool and die-making courses at Tellicherry, has been proved right. Though it not a panacea for all the problems in the region, the foundation has successfully developed and promoted technical training for gainful employment, as an alternative to the conventional academic education.
- 1959: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Nettur, Tellicherry (Kerala)
- 1964: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Dharwad (Karnataka)
- 1964: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Vellore (Tamil Nadu)
- 1978: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Peenya, Bangalore (Karnataka)
- 1982: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Electronic City, Bangalore (Karnataka)
- 1982: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Gannavaram (Andhra Pradesh)
- 1983: NTTF PG School, Bangalore
- 1997: NTTF Technical Training Centre at GKDITR, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)
- 2000: NTTF IT Centre, Bangalore
- 2000: NTTF IT Centre, Chennai
- 2000: NTTF Technical Training Centre at SIT, Tumkur (Karnataka)
- 2001: NTTF Technical Training Centre at OEN India Ltd, Kochi (Kerala)
- 2001: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Southern Petro Chemical Industries (SPIC), Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu)
- 2002: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Keltron Ltd, Trivandrum (Kerala)
- 2003: NTTF Technical Training Centre at R D TATA Technical Education Center, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand)
- 2005: NTTF Technical Training Centre at J.N. TATA Technical Education Center, Gopalpur
- 2006: NTTF Technical Training Centre at NOKIA India Pvt. Ltd, Sriperumbudur.
- 2006: NTTF IT Centre DIOCESE, Alleppey (Kerala)
- 2006: NTTF IT Centre, Shimoga (Karnataka)
- 2006: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai (Tamil Nadu)
- 2006: NTTF IT Centre at IRIS Manufacturing Ltd, Chengalpet
- 2007: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Seyanmarsal Vocational Training Center
- 2008: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Keltron Campus, Mudadi (Kerala)
- 2008: NTTF Technical Training Centre at VSVN Polytechnic, Visudhunagar
- 2008: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Chandana Education Society, Lakshmeswar
- 2008: NTTF Technical Training Centre at JSW, Bellary(Karnataka)
- 2009: NTTF Vocational Training Centre, Savanur
Aims
The aims of the foundation are:
- To promote technical training in India, particularly in the field of Tool and Die making, Electronics, Technical skills and other allied trades both at Craftsman level, Post Diploma and Post Graduate level.
- To organize the running of the training centre, Polytechnics or other institutions for technical education in India , and to assist other to do so by providing funds or by giving technical help as Consultants.
- To help poor and deserving students with scholarships to enable to carry out their training in establishments of technical or industrial character
- To arrange for course of lectures, classes, seminars, and conferences for the diffusion of the technical and industrial knowledge.
- To establish and maintain hostels or boarding houses for the use of students receiving technical education.
- To establish and run any industry or business as decided by the trustees and to use the income so derived for the maintenance and running of the educational institutions which are under the management of the foundation.
- To sponsor outreach programs aimed towards the development of rural India.
See also
- Educational Institutes in Thalassery
External links
Categories:- Educational institutions established in 1963
- Thoothukudi
- Education in Tamil Nadu
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