Nettur Technical Training Foundation operates more than 20 training centers around India. These centers are located in the cities of: *

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

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

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Bellary Ballari (formerly Bellary) is a city in the Ballari district in state of Karnataka, India. Ballari houses many steel plants such as JSW Vijayanagar, one of the largest in Asia. Ballari district is also known as the ‘Steel city of South Ind ...

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Coimbatore Coimbatore (Tamil: kōyamputtūr, ), also known as Kovai (), is one of the major Metropolitan cities of India, metropolitan cities in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Noyy ...

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Dharwad Dharwad (), also known as Dharwar, is a city located in the northwestern 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 merged ...

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Gannavaram Gannavaram is a village in Krishna district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is also the mandal headquarters of Gannavaram mandal which is administered under Gudivada revenue division. Vijayawada Airport is located here. Name origi ...

, * Gopalpur-Odisha, *

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

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Jamshedpur Jamshedpur (; ), also known as Tatanagar, is a major industrial city in eastern India. It is the List of cities in Jharkhand by population, largest city in the state of Jharkhand. With a population of 629,658 in the city limits and 1.3 million ...

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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 hea ...

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Kuttippuram Kuttippuram is a town and a block headquarters, which is situated in the Tirur Taluk, Malappuram district in the Indian state of Kerala. The town is located 32 kilometres south of Malappuram And 8 kilometers from Valanchery. The Bharathappuzha ...

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Malappuram Malappuram (also Malapuram) () is a municipality and town in Kerala and the headquarters of the Malappuram district in Kerala, India. It is the List of most populous urban agglomerations in Kerala, 4th largest urban agglomeration in Kerala and ...

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

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Tellicherry Thalassery () (also called Tellicherry) is a city and municipality on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahe and Kozhikode. Thalassery municipality has a population of just under ...

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Tuticorin Thoothukudi (formerly called Tuticorin) is a port industrial city in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It lies on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. The city is capital and headquarters of the district. ...

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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. Vadakkencherry-Mannuthy section of NH-544 is the Roads in Kerala, first six ...

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Vellore Vellore ( ), also spelled Velur, is a sprawling 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 and surrounded by the Javadi Hills in the northeastern ...

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 Protestant denominations in South India that occurred after the independence of India. With a membership of over 4.5 million, it ...

and HEKS (Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen der Schweiz) of

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. 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 and a suburb of Kannur city in the Kannur district, located in the Indian state of Kerala. It is also the smallest panchayat in Kerala. Its area is . It is about north of Kannur. Valapattanam is known for its ...

, 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 N ...

. 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. In 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.

Timeline

* 1959: NTTF Technical Training Centre,

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Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, 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 ...

) * 1964: NTTF Technical Training Centre,

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Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

) * 1964: NTTF Technical Training Centre, Vellore (

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. 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 Indi ...

) * 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 (ISO 15919, ISO: , , AP) is a States and union territories of India, state on the East Coast of India, east coast of southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, seventh-largest state and th ...

) * 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 Tumakuru, is a city and headquarters of Tumakuru district in the Karnataka state of India. Tumkur is known for Siddaganga Matha. Tumkur hosts India's first mega food park, a project of the ministry of food processing. The Ind ...

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

Kochi Kochi ( , ), List of renamed Indian cities and states#Kerala, formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the Ernakulam district, district of Ernakulam in the ...

(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 States and union territories of India, state in East India, 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 ...

) * 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 Shivamogga, is a city and the district headquarters of Shimoga district in the Karnataka state of India. The city lies on the banks of the Tunga River. Being the gateway for the hilly region of the Western Ghats, the city ...

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

Madurai Madurai ( , , ), formerly known as Madura, is a major city in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Madurai District, which is ...

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) * 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,

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) * 2009: NTTF Technical Education Centre, Pantnagar,

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand (, ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2007), is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. The state is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the n ...

* 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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