IDTR to offer diploma course in tool, dye making

Chennai, May 3 (UNI) Jamshedpur-based Indo-Danish Tool Room (IDTR), established under the technical cooperation programme between the Centre, Jharkhand and Denmark Governments in 1991, will offer a four-year diploma course in tool and dye making and a two-year diploma in machinist course.

IDTR General Manager S Kasi told newspersons here today that the eligibility for four-year diploma course is plus two with 50 per cent marks and for the two-year diploma course it is either standard X pass or fail. The intake for both the courses wild be 60 candidates, he added.

Mr Kasi said the IDTR's main aim is to impart long-term and short-term trainings to youngsters in the field of tool engineering with the latest technologies.

The training will be given to freshers as well as those already engaged in the engineering field.

He said since Jamshedpur is known for its automobile industry, cent per cent placement would be guaranteed for both the courses.

The centre was also conducting various skill-cum-technology upgradation programmes with sponsorship from Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Jamshedpur.

In the last two years, the Centre had successfully conducted 25 programmes on various topics like TQM, CATIA, Auo Cad, CNC Lathe, MDT, Pro-E, and master CAM.

The Centre had successfully conducted special course for arts and science graduates in meteorology for girl students for six months and 100 per cent placement was given to all candidates.

He claimed a girl student, who had undergone four-year diploma course, became the first woman candidate in Asia to work on a CNC machine while another tribal girl student started her own plastic component manufacturing unit supplying to automobile sector in Jharkand.

UNI