The term “vocational” means providing skill and education that prepare for a job, or training of skilled craftsman.

 The skilled craftsman has been defined by the planning commission thus, a worker who belongs to an occupation generally accepted as skilled and found in several industries.

 The government of India started the war technicians training scheme in the year 1940 at Koni Bilaspur now it is in Chattisgarh state long before the new factory system of manufacturing took root on Indian.

The war technician scheme was followed by the technical training scheme in 1946. All these schemes were modified and merges into a comprehensive scheme known as vocational training scheme, designed for training demobilized service personnel, but was wound up in July 1950.

After the completion of ex-servicemen’s training schemes. The training of civilians was started on a national basis by establishing Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) by the Government of India in 1950. Under the head of Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGET) in the ministry of labour and welfare.

Now its named as Directorate General of Training (DGT) under the ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship