Saturday 20 August 2016

SOLAR PV TECHNICIAN COURSE GUIDELINES

These Guidelines shall be effective from the July 01, 2015 for Suryamitra Skill Development Program of the National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon. The Suryamitra Skill Development Program is oriented to provide skill development to Solar Photovoltaic Technicians for Solar PV Installer and Service Provider.
1. DURATION OF THE PROGRAM: The duration of the Suryamitra Skill Development Program will be three months consisting of six hundred hours including hundred hours of soft and entrepreneurship skills.
2. SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS: For selection of participants to Suryamitra Skill Development Program, following essential and preferable qualifications are required:
Essential Qualification: The candidate should be 10 pass ITI in electrician/Wireman/Electronics and not below 18 years. The trainee should have certificate of ITI or diploma in any branches of Electrical/Mechanical/Electronics, Experience in certified electrician will also be preferred. B. Tech or any other higher qualification is not allowed.
3. NUMBER OF SEATS: Presently, there shall be 30 seats for each batch of training program.
4. ADMISSION: a) The State Nodal Agencies of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and the host institute will advertise about the batches of the program including dates and the venue of the training in the print and/or electronic media. b) The final selection of the trainees for the program shall be made by host institute and the details of the proposed participants must be communicated to NISE/concerned SNA before the commencement of the program. c) During the selection of trainees, special emphasis to be given to the trainees coming from rural background, unemployed, women candidates, SC/ST candidates.
5. TEACHING AND PRACTICAL WORK: 1. The main curriculum of teaching would be as per the National Council of Vocational Training (NCVT) approved Module-5 which is attached with the Guidelines. 2. The training program is residential with a clear daily time table which would preferable include early morning physical exercise such as Yoga/PT etc. 3. The first hour of the day may be utilized for class-room lectures. 3 4. The practical hours may be utilized for hands on exercise in the lab sites, Experiments, class room exercises, software simulations if any, and to conduct the regular quizzes/class test and industrial visits. 5. For experiments/field visit, the batch may be divided into multiple groups depending on the availability of facility. 6. Motivational sessions (1 hr. duration each) shall be conducted once every two weeks. 7. The host institute shall provide one set of uniform to all the Suryamitra participants. Participants must attend the session in proper uniforms only. A T-shirt (Grey color) with NISE logo and a pant (Yellow Color) for both male/female. The jacket, safety helmets and boots must be provided to all participants, and may be retained by the host institute after the training. 8. Each participant/group shall be given an access to proper toolkits for working in the lab/site. 9. Each modules of a session guides the trainer to prepare the materials for that particular session. The trainer is free to opt for any references and, training methodology/slides, provided the objectives in the sessions are covered in full length. 10. The preferred medium of instruction would be the respective local language, but though Hindi and English may also be preferred depending on the demand from the class. 11. The trainer/institute may also conduct a class test/quiz at the end of each session as a part of continuous assessment. The criteria/pattern of conducting these quizzes and tests can be decided by the trainer. Also, each day may preferably start with the recap of the previous day’s sessions. 12. Trainers are requested to give sufficient home works to the participants during the weekend.
6. ATTENDANCE: a) Every teaching/practical staff member handling a class will take attendance till the last instruction day of the training program and the records will be kept with the organizing institution. b) The trainees are normally expected to attend 100% theory and practical classes/workshop practices. However, no participants shall be allowed to be awarded certificate at the end of training unless he/she has 90% attendance in total.
7. FEE STRUCTURE: a) No fee will be charged from the trainees. However, the trainees will make their own arrangement for joining the training and going back. Any amount collected as security deposit must be refunded at the end of the course and need to be in the proper records. b) The boarding and lodging of the trainees will be provided by the organizing institution. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy through State Nodal Agency will provide Rs 300 per trainee for 30 trainees for 90 days which amounts to Rs 8.10 Lakhs. 4 c) The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy through State Nodal Agency will provide course fee to the institute at the rate of Rs 25/- per hour x 30 participants x 600 hours which amounts to Rs 4.50 Lakhs. d) The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy through State Nodal Agency will provide assessment charges for 30 trainees @ Rs 800/- which amounts to Rs 0.24 Lakhs.
8. ASSESSMENT OF TRAINEES: The final examination consisting of written test, practical examination shall be conducted at the end of the three months by the Skill Council for Green Jobs or NCVT strictly as per the module 5.
9. INDUSTRIAL VISIT During first two months of suryamitra program, at least 3 visits to medium or large industry to know power transmission, distribution, loads, cabling etc. and one visit to 33 kV substations must be planned.
10. EMPLOYMENT ASPECTS At the end of the suryamitra program, the host institute may arrange for placement of the
“Suryamitra” by inviting, solar industries, EPC companies, marketing companies, large contractors working with Transco, Discoms etc. Maximum number of the participants must be provided employment at the end of the program. Host institute may coordinate with SNA’s to invite companies for the placement. 5
Curriculum for Suryamitra Skill Development Program
This content is planned into sessions according to the course curriculum structure based on the module 5 of the national skill development council of India.
‘T’ represents theory hours and ‘P’ represents practical hours. For example : a session “1T and 7P” refers to total 8 hours of session with 1 hour of theory and 7 hours of practical.
The sessions from 1 to 16 must be covered in the same sequence as given to maintain the chronology of the knowledge transfer. However the session 17 can be incorporated in between as and when required.

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