India, Aug. 26 -- The skill development and entrepreneurship ministry is planning to modernise 1,000 government Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) over five years through a hub-and-spoke model. The plan involves 200 advanced Hub and 800 Spoke ITIs.

The hubs will have state-of-the-art labs, innovation centres, and trainer facilities under the Rs.60,000 crore National Scheme for ITI Upgradation. They will have four new courses and upgrade 10 existing ones. Spokes will adopt two new courses and enhance the curriculum of eight courses to align with industry needs.

India has 3,316 government and 11,299 private ITIs. Under the new scheme, each Hub ITI will support about four Spoke ITIs, with all upgraded institutes equipped with modern inf...