Skill Training Centres Under Ministry of Steel
There are three training Institutes namely, National Institute of Secondary Steel Technology (NISST) (headquartered at Mandi Gobindgarh with regional centres at Kolkata and Nagpur); Institute for Steel Development and Growth (INSDAG) at Kolkata and Biju Patnaik National Steel Institute (BPNSI) at Puri for imparting technical training to manpower employed in secondary steel sector. Further, individual CPSEs under Ministry of Steel impart training to their employees and apprentices.
The details of the training imparted by these Institutes and CPSEs under the Ministry of Steel during 2019-20 are as following:-
| Name of Institutes/PSUs | Type of training | Number of persons trained |
| FY 2019-20 | ||
| NISST | Skill up-gradation in secondary steel sector | 656 |
| INSDAG | ||
| Steel Designs and Construction training | 814 | |
| CPSEs [Steel Authority of India Ltd.(SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.(RINL)] | Skill up-gradation of employees | 380 |
| Apprentice training | 3318 |
NISST has one of its centers at Nagpur in Maharashtra to provide training to the steel industry sponsored candidates in the state.
This information was given by the Union Minister for Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
