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Revised rate of stipend payable to all categories of apprentices: Category-wise Details

Revised rate of stipend payable to all categories of apprentices: Category-wise Details

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 16
ANSWERED ON: 14.09.2020

Stipend to Apprenticeship
E. T. Mohammed Basheer
Will the Minister of

SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP be pleased to state:-

(a) Whether the Government proposes to increase the stipend payable o trade Apprenticeship and

(b) if so, the criteria adopted for the same in respect of different categories of Apprenticeship

ANSWER

(a) & (b) The minimum rate of stipend payable to all categories of apprentices including trade apprentices have been revised and notified in Extra Ordinary Gazette of India dated 25th September, 2019. The minimum stipend is based on educational and technical qualification requirement, prescribed in curricula of respective trades. The Apprenticeship Rule, 1992 as amended upto September 2019 prescribes that during the 2nd year of apprenticeship training, there shall be an increase of 10 per cent in the prescribed minimum stipend amount and further 15 per cent increase in the prescribed minimum stipend amount during 3rd year of apprenticeship training. Presently, Government is not considering to increase the stipend payable to apprentices. The minimum stipend paid per month to all categories of apprentices is as under :

Serial number Category Prescribed minimum base stipend amount for 1st year of training
(1) (2) (3)
(i) School pass-outs ( class 5th – class 9th ) ? 5000 per month
(ii) School pass-outs ( class 10th) ? 6000 per month
(iii) School pass-outs ( class 12th) ? 7000 per month
(iv) National or State Certificate holder ? 7000 per month
(v) Technician (vocational) apprentice or Vocational Certificate holder or Sandwich Course (Students from Diploma Institutions) ? 7000 per month
(vi) Technician apprentices or diploma holder in any stream or sandwich course (students from degree institutions) ? 8000 per month
(vii) Graduate apprentices or Degree apprenticeship or degree in any stream ? 8000 per month

(viii) Skill certificate holder

a. stipend as per his/her educational qualifications as mentioned in the table above

b. In case, he does not fall in any of the above categories, he/she will get a minimum stipend of INR 5000/-per month.

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