category Regional, chandigarh, , tags Regional, chandigarh, , DW BUREAU Chandigarh In a major development to accelerate strategic initiatives to achieve objectives in the Skill Development domain, Hartron and NCVET signed an agreement for being recognised as an Awarding Body. Hartron recently received a Letter of Intent (LoI) from National Council for Vocational Education and was accorded the provisional status as Awarding Body (AB-Dual). Additional MD Hartron Sh.Vivek Kalia signed the agreement at NCVET Headquarters, New Delhi in presence of the Chairman NCVET Dr. Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi to formalise the engagement and start working on accomplishing the intended objectives. Giving more information in this regard an official spokesperson of NCVET quoted that as per Govt. of India notification for National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF), it is mandatory for all the training educational programmes courses to be NSQF compliant. NSQF is a competency-based framework that organizes all qualifications according to a series of levels of knowledge, skills and aptitude. Hartron at an advanced stage analyzed the importance as well as requirement of NSQF alignment of its courses for wider acceptability and increased recognition of its certificates. Presently 17 Hartron Qualifications courses at 81 Centres in 22 Districts of Haryana and 3 centres at Chandigarh qualify the NSQF and are registered in the National Qualifications Register (NQR) which is the official national public record of all qualifications aligned to NSQF levels. Hartron had applied for recognition with NCVET under Dual Category i.e. as an Awarding body and Assessment agency. After fulfilling all the requisite requirements and making necessary changes, final review meeting of NCVET sub-committee was held under the Chairmanship the Chairperson, NCVET. Thereafter, NCVET issued the Letter of Intent (LoI) to Hartron for grant of provisional recognition status as Awarding Body (AB-Dual) which will expand the horizon of Hartron in imparting training. (editor dailyworld.in)