National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) a tripartite body was set up through a resolution by ministry of labour in 1956, to advice on issues relating to “Vocational training” including craftsman training scheme such as designing of curricula, maintaining quality standards, deciding norms for affiliation, granting affiliation to institutes, trade testing
and certification.

After being transferred to MSDE, NCVT has been partially modified and re-constituted under the chairmanship of Hon’ble minister of state (IC). Skill development and entrepreneurship, w.e.f. 13/05/2015.
The council consists of representatives of central ministries, state governments, employers organisations, employees organisations, secretarial support to NCVT is provided by DGT. Professtonal learned bodies. Experts and representatives of SC/ST.
The major functions of the NCVT are:
• Establish and award national trade certificates in engineering trades
• Prescribe standards in respect of syllabi, equipment, and scale of space, duration of courses and methods of training:
• Arrange trade tests in various trade courses and lay down standards of proficiency required for a pass in the trade test
• Arrange for ad-hoc or periodical inspections of training instituitions in the country
• Lay down condicions & to recogonize training institutions run by government or by private agencies for purposes of the grant of national trade certificates;
• Prescribe qualification for the technical staff of training institutions;
• Prescribe the standards and conditions of eligibility for the award of national trade certificates
• Recommend the provision of additional training facilites wherever necessary and render such
assistance in the setting up of additional training instituitons or in the organisation of additional training programmes as may be possible.
Similar councils known as State Council for Vocational training (SCVT) are constituted to advice respective state government on issues relating to skill development. These SCVTs have been advised by NCVT to be registered as societies under society registration ACT 1861.
NCVT MIS portal: Directorate general of training has launched the NCVT MIS portal to access online information related ITIs including:
• Information of all affiliated government & private industrial training institutes (ITIs).
• Candidates seeking skilling training/apprenticeship training
• Employers seeking skilled workers
• Citizen information & feed back
• ITI & approved courses
• Enrolment transparency
• Training/acadamic schedule
• Visibility on self -profile and training progress
• On-line access to e-mark sheet & e-certificates
• E-mail & SMS alerts
• Placement faciliation
• STAR grading of ITIs
More details related to NCVT - MIS portal is available at www.ncvtmis.gov.in

Regional Directorate of Apprenticeship training (RDATs) are responsible for monitoring the implementation of the apprenticeship act for trade apprentices in central government undertaking/departments. At present, there are 6 RDATs which are located at Chennai (Tamilnadu) Faridabad (Haryana), Hyderabad (Andhra pradesh), Kanpur (uttar pradesh), Kolkata (West Bengal), and Mumbai (Maharashtra).