Nettur Technical Training Foundation operates more than 20 training centers around India, at

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

Baddi Baddi is an industrial town and Nagar parishad in the southwestern Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, India. The town lies on the border of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana states in the Shivalik Hills, around 35 kilometres west of Solan town. ...

Bellary Bellary, officially Ballari, in the eponymous Bellary district, is a city in the state of Karnataka, India. History Bellary was a part of Rayalaseema (Ceded Districts) which was part of Madras Presidency till 1 November 1956. The Ball ...

Coimbatore Coimbatore, also spelt as Koyamputhur (), sometimes shortened as Kovai (), is one of the major metropolitan cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Noyyal River and surrounded by the Western Ghats. Coimbato ...

Dharwad Dharwad (), also known as Dharwar, is a city located in the north western part of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of the Dharwad district of Karnataka and forms a contiguous urban area with the city of Hubballi. It was merge ...

Gannavaram Gannavaram is a suburb of Vijayawada in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is also the mandal headquarters of Gannavaram mandal which is administered under Gudivada revenue division. It is a neighborhood of Vijayawada in ...

, Gopalpur-Odisha,

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

Jamshedpur Jamshedpur (, ) or Tatanagar is the largest and most populous city in Jharkhand and the first planned industrial city in India. It is a Notified Area Council and Municipal Corporation and also the headquarter of the East Singhbhum district. It ...

Kumbakonam Kumbakonam (formerly spelt as Coombaconum or Combaconum) or Kudanthai is a city municipal corporation in the Thanjavur district in the States of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located from Thanjavur and from Chennai and is the headq ...

Kuttippuram Kuttippuram is a town and a block headquarters, which is situated in the Tirur Taluk, Malappuram district of Kerala state, India. The town is located 34 kilometres south-west of Malappuram. The Bharathappuzha river flows through Kuttippuram. A ...

Malappuram Malappuram (also Malapuram) () is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of including the surrounding suburban areas. The first municipality in the district formed in 1970, Malappuram serves as the administrative headquarter ...

Murbad Murbad is a census town within the administrative division (taluka) of Thane district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Murbad city with its neighbouring villages jointly form the Murbad nagar panchayat, which is near the cities of Thane, Kar ...

Tellicherry Thalassery (), formerly Tellicherry, is a municipality, Commercial City on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district, in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahé (Pondicherry), Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Kodagu (Karna ...

Tuticorin Thoothukudi (formerly Tuticorin) is a port city, a municipal corporation and an industrial city in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The city lies in the Coromandel Coast of Bay of Bengal. Thoothukudi is the capital and he ...

Vadakkencherry Vadakkencherry is a town and gram panchayat in the Palakkad district, state of Kerala, India. It is located about 35 km from Palakkad along National Highway 544. Education * College of Applied Science, Vadakkencherry * St. Mary’s Poly ...

and

Vellore Vellore (English: ), also spelt as Velur (), is a city and the administrative headquarters of Vellore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Palar River in the northeastern part of Tamil Nadu and is separa ...

History

On 12 April 1958, the Nettur Technical Training Foundation, the successor to the CSI Technical Training Institute, was established as a joint venture between

Church of South India The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India. It is the result of union of a number of mainline Protestant denominations in South India after independence. The Church of South India is the successor of a number of Pr ...

and HEKS (Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen der Schweiz) of

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. According to HEKS's website, the project's initial funds were raised from regional established churches in Zürich, Aargau, Basel and Schaffhausen. On 24 November 1959, Mr. Kaderkutty, managing director of Western India Plywoods,

Valapattanam Valapattanam is a census town in the Kannur district, located in the Indian state of Kerala. It is also the smallest panchayat in Kerala. Its area is 2.04 sqr Km. It is about 7 km north of Kannur. Valapattanam is known for its communal harm ...

, formally inaugurated the training center at

Nettur Nettur is a village segment which comes under the jurisdiction of Thalassery municipality, in the state of Kerala, India. It is situated in North Thalassery en route to Kannur via NH 17. The Anjarakandi-Thalassery state Highway passes through ...

. The first batch of tool and die-maker trainees, 16 boys, were admitted in November 1959. They subsequently appeared for NCTVT (National Council for Training in Vocational Trades, presently known a
NCVT
in January 1962 and completed the four-year course in 1964. The initial plan was a 3.5-year training period, but it was extended to four years, which remains in effect today. Swiss technical expert Alfred Frischknecht was HEKS' first appointee to principal of the Nettur centre. After seven years in India, he relocated to HEKS's headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland to direct development projects. It was realised from its inception that the institution would be costly to set up and maintain. The Church of South India placed some of its land and buildings at

at the institute's disposal. Some buildings were reconditioned and a few new ones were built by NTTF. The donor agencies assured the necessary funds, supplies of adequate machine tools and accessories, and deputation of technical experts from abroad. 1964 another training centre was established in Dharwad, Karnataka, again on property donated by the CSI church of Karnataka; and another center was established the same year in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The centre's headquarters was moved to Peenya, Bangalore after the establishment of a toolroom and training center there in 1978.

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* 1959: NTTF Technical Training Centre,

(

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

) * 1964: NTTF Technical Training Centre,

(

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

) * 1964: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Vellore (

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

) * 1978: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Peenya, Bangalore (Karnataka) * 1982: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Electronic City, Bangalore (Karnataka) * 1982: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Gannavaram (

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

) * 1983: NTTF PG School, Bangalore * 1997: NTTF Technical Training Centre at GKDITR,

(Tamil Nadu) * 2000: NTTF IT Centre, Bangalore * 2000: NTTF Technical Training Centre at SIT,

Tumkur Tumkur, officially renamed as Tumakuru, is a city located in the southern part of Indian state of Karnataka. Tumkur is situated at a distance of northwest of Bangalore, the state capital along NH 48 and NH 73. It is the headquarters of the ...

(Karnataka) * 2000: NTTF Advance Technical Training Centre at Bardang, Singtam, sikkim * 2001: NTTF Technical Training Centre at OEN India Ltd,

Kochi Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...

(Kerala) * 2001: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Southern Petro Chemical Industries (SPIC), Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) * 2002: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Keltron Ltd, Trivandrum (Kerala),(Centre closed on 2010) * 2003: NTTF Technical Training Centre at R D TATA Technical Education Center, Jamshedpur (

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

) * 2005: NTTF Technical Training Centre at J.N. TATA Technical Education Center, Gopalpur * 2006: NTTF Technical Training Centre at NOKIA India Pvt. Ltd, Sriperumbudur. * 2006: NTTF IT Centre DIOCESE, Alleppey (Kerala) * 2006: NTTF IT Centre,

Shimoga Shimoga, officially known as Shivamogga, is a city and the district headquarters of Shimoga district in the central part of the state of Karnataka, India. The city lies on the banks of the Tunga River. Being the gateway for the hilly region of ...

(

) * 2006: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Thiagarajar College of Engineering,

Madurai Madurai ( , also , ) is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Madurai District. As of the 2011 census, it was the third largest Urban agglomeration in ...

(

) * 2006: NTTF IT Centre at IRIS Manufacturing Ltd, Chengalpet * 2007: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Seyanmarsal Vocational Training Center * 2008: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Keltron Campus, Mudadi (

) * 2008: NTTF Technical Training Centre at VSVN Polytechnic, Virudhunagar * 2008: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Chandana Education Society, Lakshmeswar * 2008: NTTF Technical Training Centre at JSW,

(

) * 2009: NTTF Technical Education Centre, Pantnagar,

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...

* 2009: NTTF Vocational Training Centre, Savanur * 2010: NTTF Technical Training Centre at HBL Campus, HBL Nagar (

) * 2010: NTTF Technical Training Centre at SSN Campus Murbad (Maharastra) * 2012: NTTF Technical Training Centre at KELTRON, Malappuram (

) * 2012: Govt. Community College, Vadakkencherry (Kerala)-NTTF acting as an Incubating agency * 2013: NTTF Technical Training Centre at INKEL Edu City,

(Kerala) * 2014: NTTF Technical Training Centre at Kumbakonam (Tamil Nadu) * 2014: NTTF Technical Training Center at TATA STEEL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE (BURMAMINES), JAMSHEDPUR (

)

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