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NCCET (National Council For Construction And Education Training)
Mission
The mission of NCCET of BAI is:
  • To improve the performance levels, quality of work, competi­tiveness, efficiency and productivity of the building & construc­tion industry.
  • To upgrade the skill, standards and professional capabilities of workers and other members of the construction industry and thereby improve their wage, welfare conditions as well as their economic and social status.
  • To gradually extend the coverage of this scheme to similar other schemes.
  • To encourage improvement of skills by setting benchmarks for future achievement.
Approach
  • Exist as a service to the construction industry and seek to meet the needs of construction enterprises and their employees.
  • Operate on a voluntary basis; cover all employed, self-em­ployed and unemployed persons and also all segments of the industry.
  • Not duplicate the existing schemes. Its services will be avail­able to all persons without consideration of region, religion, caste and creed.
  • Evolve with experience but always be simple to operate and totally transparent.
Functions : NCCET of BAI shall
  • Promote training & education; lay down core curricula and standard as well as procedures and methods of trade-testing, evaluation and certification.
  • Not deliver nor engage in imparting training and education directly. Delivery of training & education, trade-testing and examination will be done by BAI Centres as per procedure established by NCCET of BAI.
  • Delivery of training and education as well as trade-testing and certification will be done on business lines. Each delivery station should be a profit centre.
  • Identify categories of persons as per their training and educa­tional needs and priorities them.
  • Design core curricula for the selected categories.
  • Also be open to receive requests for approval of programmes of other agencies. Study them if submitted and approve them, if satisfied.
  • Approve "add-on" or "supplement" modules to the courses of other bodies.
  • Lay down the standards as well as methods and systems of delivery.
  • Provide services for quality assurance, evaluation, certification and accreditation work.
  • Set up guidelines for "Delivery Agencies" regarding physical infrastructures, faculty and other requirements. (It has to be flexible during initial years).
Coverage and Schemes
  1. Coverage
    1. Workers, supervisors, inspectors and foremen for training and development.
    2. Engineers and managers for further & vocational/professional educations.
  2. Training Schemes
    1. Workers' Training and Skill Certification Scheme (WTSCS)
    2. Supervisory Training and Skill Certification Scheme (STSCS)
    3. Inspectors' & Foremen's Training Scheme (IFTS)
    4. Multi-Skill Training & Skill Certification Scheme (MTSCS)
  3. Educational Schemes

    Details of vocational/professional education scheme are given in Chart-ll.
Prioritization

To begin with, NCCET of BAI will engage in the following two schemes only:

  • Skill Certification of one lakh workers a year.
  • Operate on selective basis, some schemes that BAI Centres want to implement, if they are recommended by BAI Headquar­ters.
One lakh Certifications a year

Contracting firms throughout India carry on their pay roll, over 60 lakh workers who are classified by them as skilled workers. All such workers get wages of skilled category. Obviously, a contrac­tor will consider a worker skilled and pay higher wage only if he finds that the worker's performance is of skilled category. All such workers should be certified as 'skilled' on the basis of employer's testimonial. This method is called the 'Industry Route Certification.

  1. How to reach the one lakh target?
    1. BAI has approx. 8,000 firms as its members.
    2. If each firm gets at least 10 of its employees skill-certified every year, you get 80,000 certifications. Bigger firms and special projects of BAI would be the source of another 20,000 workers.
  2. How it will operate?
    1. BAI has State and Centre Chairmen
    2. State Chairmen will be designated as Regional Governors (RG) and Centre Chairmen Area Governors (AG) of the Scheme. They would be the Accredited Authority under the Industry Route.
    3. RGs and AGs will generate (motivate & invite) Centres, firms and members within their respective jurisdictions to sponsor their employees and submit applications, on pre­scribed forms, to RGs/AGs along with the fee.
    4. The sponsoring firm will have to certify that the applicant is a skilled worker. RG/AG will verify it and if satisfied, certify the application and forward it to the National Coun­cil of Construction Education & Training (NCCET) with its recommendation and the prescribed fee.
    5. The NCCET of BAI wil
      1. Accept the applications forwarded by RGs/AGs
      2. Enter them into the National Register of Skilled Con­struction Workers (NRSCW).
      3. Issue the skill certificate of Orange Band and send it to the employer concerned for handing over to the per­son concerned.
      4. The certificate shall be valid for three years.
  3. It will be incumbent on the part of a worker holding the Orange Band Certificate, to take a trade test within next 36 months, pass the test and earn the Green Band Certificate of a skilled worker.
Industry route certification
  1. NCCET, in consultation with BAI, will fix an 'Appointed Date' called 'A Day' on which the Industry Route to Certification will come into force.
  2. Considering the time needed for preparations, the 'A Day' may be fixed for April 2006.
  3. On 'A Day', all workers classified as 'Skilled' and carried on payroll and paid wages of skilled workers by a BAI member firm or its sub-contractor/outsource will be deemed to be skilled workers, eligible for grant of an Orange Band Certificate.
  4. Employers/Contractors etc. employing such workers and who are members of BAI, will be deemed to be Accredited for certifying skill levels of their workers for a period of three years from 'A Day'.
  5. The accredited employers will prepare lists of skilled workers employed by or through them, certify the skill level and for­ward such lists to the BAI Centre concerned. The documents will be prepared in the format prescribed by the NCCET. The procedure to be followed thereafter is laid down in section 6 of this Document.
Standard route certification

Details of certificates

NCCET will issue four types of Certificates:

  1. Orange Band
  2. Green Band
  3. Pink Band
  4. Blue Band

Significance of Bands

  1. Orange Band will be issued to those who qualify under industry route. It will be valid for three years from the date of issue and must be converted into Green Band.
  2. Green Band will be issued to skilled workers who pass the trade test.
  3. Pink Band will be issued to those who fail to qualify in the trade test. This is valid for 18 months only.
  4. Blue Band will be issued to multi-skill butterfly workers.

Administrative Details

  1. The certificate will be of a size, little bigger than a PAN Card and will be laminated. Colour Band at its bottom will indicate skill category. A specimen is printed on page 24.
  2. The certificate will be issued under the signatures of Chair­man NCCET of BAI, RG/AG concerned and BAI Centre Chairman, if other than RG/AG.

Fees and payments

  • Certification of one lakh workers a year.
  • The fee for a single trade-test shall be Rs.500 only. However, an unemployed worker and all female workers will be charged a fee of Rs.300 only. The cost/fee-sharing formula of the trade-test fee will be worked out by the Managing Committee of BAI. Sharing involves three parties, the worker, the contractor who sponsors him, and the BAI Centre concerned. 

NCCET will pay to RG/AG/

Centre etc. fee for trade-testing   : Rs.100 per worker

Accreditation Fee
Accreditation of an institution Rs. 10,000

Accreditation of a Course                     Rs.5,000 + 5% of the fee

charged per student.

  • Examination fees for Educational
    Courses                                       : As per UGC/AICTE rules.
  • Any other work.           : To be negotiated in advance of starting activity.
 
Chart II Vocational and Professional Education Programmes
  1. Management Courses
    • Construction Business Management
    • Construction Project Management
    • Facilities Management
    • Property Management
    • Building Services Management
    • Construction Safety Management
    • Quantity Surveying
    • Billing & Cost Management
    • Construction Quality Management
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Contracting & Contract Management
    • Construction Personnel Management
    • Security Services Management
    • Managing BOT Projects/Facility
    • Plant and Equipment Management 

      [The list of above 15 courses is only indicative]
  2. Technical Courses
    HRD Committee or NCCET could also make arrangements with various Indian Universities, technical bodies, wherein BAI Cen­tres or their authorised agencies, which are accredited by Head­quarters could become Study Centres, enrol students, conduct week-end/evening classes and prepare students for examina­tions.
    1. Diploma in Construction Engineering
      • High School pass plus 4/5 years' site work experience.
      • Course duration : 3 years.
      • istance learning method or part time campus studies.
      • Annual examinations.
    2. Diploma in Quantity Surveying
      • High School pass plus 4/5 years' site work experience.
      • Duration : 2 years.
      • Curricula of the Institute of Quantity Surveyors.
      • Annual examinations.
    3. Diploma in Quantity Surveying
      • High School pass plus 4/5 years' site work experience.
      • Duration : 2 years.
      • Curricula of the Institute of Quantity Surveyors.
      • Annual examinations.
    4. Similar other diplomas can be offered.
    5. Certificate courses of 6 to 8 months' duration
      • Site organisation & layout.
      • Building supervision.
      • Building Materials & Standards.
      • Scaffolding & Form work.
      • Concrete and Concreting.
      • Measurement and Building.
      • Estimating & Costing.
      • Store organisation & Management.
      • Site Record keeping.
      • Plant and Equipment Maintenance.
    6. Certificate Courses based on 'add on' or 'supplement' modules
      • Offered to engineering students who have given final
        year exam and are waiting for results.
      • Duration : 4/8 weeks.
      • Class work comprises basically on attitudes, motivation, relationships and other behavioral aspects.
      • Site work is to give 'hands-on skills' in key activities.
 
Chart III

NCCET : The NCCET is established by the Builders' Association of India in Dune, 2005.

The following persons are on the Council:

  • Chairman  
    Prof. K. N. Vaid
  • Permanent Members
    Mr. S. K. Guha Thakurta
    Mr. S. A. Vichare
    Mr. P. R. Mundle
    Mr. K. L. Mohan Rao
    Mr. D. S. Shirole
    Mr. M. V. Antony
    Dr. Vandana Bhatt
  • Ex-Officio Members
    President, BAI
    Hon. Gen. Secretary, BAI
    Hon. Gen. Treasurer, BAI
  • Co-opted Members
    Dr. Anil Agarwal
  • Secretary
    Mr. Raju John

The term of office of the Council is 3 years. BAI Headquarters is the base office of NCCET.

 
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