Technical manpower in India is developed through a system of publicly and privately financed training and educational institutions, informal sector apprenticeship-type training arrangements, and the in-plant training programmes conducted by public and private sector enterprises. The formal system of technical education operates at five levels-certificate, diploma, degree, post-graduate and research degree programmes.
Technical Education and Research/Development Systems in India In Report of the High Power Committee for Mobilisation of Additional Resource for Technical Education. AICTE. New Delhi: Ministry of Human Resource Development, 1994.