Benefit of Apprenticeship to Candidates:

• Candidates as an apprentice undergoes extensive “on the job training” in an industry, which would enhance his employability.
• Receive Government and Industry Recognized Certification
• Earn a Stipend during Apprenticeship.
• Choose a Profession that they want.
• Acquire Specialized Skills through On-the-Job Training.
• Gaining confidence in abilities: Practice makes perfect. If trainees learned about a specific technique in the classroom, they are able to test it out in the world of work. Then they will be much more equipped with the technique.
• Develop Contacts - Working with professionals, the trainee will tap into a network that can offer references, advice and information about new technologies.
• Focused Career Direction – The trainee will be able to explore his/ her subject preferences and develop it into a career.
• Convert training into a Future Job – After completion of On Job Training & working experience students becomes a preferred choice of any recruiter in the coming year.

Advantages of NAPS – Apprenticeship to Industries:

• An apprentice is not a workman throughout the apprentice training program. Statutory benefits like Bonus, PF, ESI Act, Gratuity, Industrial Disputes Act and so forth aren’t applicable to the apprentice trainee.
• Cost saving: Approximately saving of 29.38% wrt other formats i.e., contractual workers.
• Organization can utilize the CSR budget for all expenditure related to the Apprentice Trainees under NAPS if the company engage the candidates above mandatory limits.
• Establishment gets financial support from the government up to Rs.1500 per month per candidate.
• Engagement of apprentices within a band of 2.5% to 15% of the total strength of employees of an establishment (including contractual employees)
• Establishments can engage apprentices of age 18 years and above in normal working hours of the establishment (including night shifts)
• An employer is not obliged to employ the apprentice after the completion of apprenticeship training.
• Engagement of apprentices in optional trades i.e., company can engage 10th, 12th ITI, Skill Certificate Holders, graduate, diploma pass / pursuing candidates in optional trade apprenticeship.
• Industry can design and run Apprenticeships in customized courses
• YSF is responsible for sourcing, documentation, training compliances & coordination with the governing body.