Introduction:

RVTI comes under Government of India, Ministry of Labour, Women’s Occupation, started functioning under Directorate of Employment and Training (DGE&T) in the year 1976. The first institute was called as National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) for Women, started functioning at New Delhi, with 2 regional institutes called as RVTI, one at Bombay and other at Bangalore. Today 11 RVTIs are functioning at various places in India. NVTI and RVTIs are imparting vocational training as required by the local industry and also providing need based training to become self entrepreneur. RVTIs are located at Tura, Hissar, Jaipur, Allahabad, Kolkatta, Indore, Vadodra, Bombay, Bangalore, Trivandrum and 11th is proposed to start at Bhuvaneshwar. The various vocational courses spread out at these institutes are categorized as

1) Basic courses
2) Advance courses
3) Post advance courses and
4) short term courses

RVTI (W) Tura started in the year 1986. Today it is running 4 basic courses, 1 advance course and 20 short-term courses. Government has exempted age limit for all the courses.

Basic courses are:

1) Secretarial Practice (SP)
2) Hair and Skin care (H & Sc)
3) Dress Making (DM)
4) Computer Operator and Programming Assistant (COPA)

Advance Course is available in Dress Making.

Other than that 20 short term courses are available in different fields.