National Skill Training Institute

National Skill Training Institute for Women (Erstwhile Regional Vocational Training Institute for Women), Kazhakuttom, Trivandrum, Kerala is imparting Vocational Training as required by the Local Industry and also providing need based training to become self-entrepreneur. National Skill Training Institute comes under Government of India, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Erstwhile Ministry of Labour & Employment, Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGE&T)), Women’s Training cell under Directorate General of Training. This exclusive institute for women facilitates regular long term training programme in various disciplines and short term training programmes . Long term courses are conducted in levels such as Craft Instructor Training Scheme (CITS) ,Craftsmen Training Scheme (CTS), and Advanced Diploma in IT, Networking and Cloud. Institute is also the Extension Centre for IGNOU, NIOS, PMKVY/SHI. And also proposed to conduct short term courses under various SSC. The 'Skill Hubs Initiative' under PMKVY 3.0 aims at creating shared infrastructure, aligned with the needs of the local economy which addresses the vocational training needs of all target segments.