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Community Technical College for Carpet Children
Community Technical College for Carpet Children

Background
The college is situated in the Nenwa village in the Meral Block of the Garwah District, Jharkhand State, India.The construction of the college building (including hostel accommodation) was completed in December 2000 and consequently this is the completion of three full years of operating since its opening in January 2001.

The purpose of the college is primarily to provide technical education and work skills for the original 11,000 children (now reduced this year to approximately 6,200) in the Garwah district.

The college is now in its third year and the first entrants have now completed their three year course very successfully.  They achieved overall a 90% pass rate in the external examinations conducted through the National Institute of Open School (N I O S), Delhi.

Activities

The course duration is generally between 6 and 12 months and in special cases can be extended a by further 12 months. Also short term courses of 7 days to 2 months are offered.  Again this year it has added more vocational courses to the college syllabus.

The college operates the more intensive courses on campus and also extension units for courses that can run and be managed in the villages. read more.....

Objectives

 The principal single objective is still to provide technical education for 300 working children a year.


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