Central Tool Room to set up centre at F’bad

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 12

Faridabad is set to have an extension counter of the Ludhiana-based Central Tool Room (CTR) to provide skilled manpower to the industrial sector in Haryana.

Sources said the setting up of the extension counter had been approved by CTR chairman-cum-development commissioner, Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India. The project would be implemented in two years by the CTR management, the sources said.

Once functional, the centre would provide training facilities to around 400 persons in several technical fields, including welding technology, job work, tool and die making and vacuum heat treatment, annually.

“The centre would not only provide skilled manpower but also expert tool room guidance to entrepreneurs of the region,” an official said.

It is learnt that there would be no financial implications of the project on the Haryana Government and an expenditure amounting to Rs 77 lakh on the setting up of the facility would be borne by the Central Government through the CTL management.

Set up in 1980 the CTL, Ludhiana, has played a yeoman’s role in the tool and die technology and training of the skilled manpower for the Punjab industry. Currently, the industry in Haryana faced an acute shortage of skilled manpower and the new centre is expected the provide the requisite skilled manpower to the Haryana industry, especially in the NCR.