law: Apprentices Act, 1961
  9. PRACTICAL AND BASIC
  
  TRAINING OF APPRENTICES. -
  (1) Every employer shall make suitable arrangements in his workshop
  
  for imparting a course of practical training to every apprentice engaged by him
  
  in accordance with the programme approved by the Apprenticeship Adviser.
  (2) The Central
  
  Apprenticeship adviser or any other person not below the rank of an Assistant
  
  Apprenticeship Adviser authorised by the Central Apprenticeship Adviser in writing
  
  in this behalf shall be given all reasonable facilities for access to each such
  
  apprentice with a view to test his work and to ensure that the practical
  
  training is being imparted in accordance with the approved programme :
  Provided that the State
  
  Apprenticeship Adviser or any other person not below the rank of an Assistant.
  
  Apprenticeship Adviser authorised by the State Apprenticeship Adviser in
  
  writing in this behalf shall also be given such facilities in respect of
  
  apprentices undergoing training in establishments in relation to which the
  
  appropriate Government is the State Government.
  (3) Such of the trade
  
  apprentices as have not undergone institutional training in a school or other
  
  institution recognised by the National Council or any other institution
  
  affiliated to or recognized by a Board or State Council of Technical Education
  
  or any other authority which the Central Government may, by notification in the
  
  Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, shall, before admission in the
  
  workshop for practical training, undergo a course of basic training.
  (4) Where an employer
  
  employs in his establishment five hundred or more workers, the basic training
  
  shall be imparted to the trade apprentices either in separate parts of the
  
  workshop building or in a separate building which shall be set up by the
  
  employer himself, but the appropriate Government may grant loans to the
  
  employer on easy terms and repayable by easy installments to meet the cost of
  
  the land, construction and equipment for such separate building.
  (4A) Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (4), if the number of apprentices to be
  
  trained at any time in any establishment in which five hundred or more workers
  
  are employed, is less than twelve the employer in relation to such establishment
  
  may depute all or any of such apprentices to any Basic Training Center or
  
  Industrial Training Institute for basic training in any designated trade, in
  
  either case, run by the Government.
  (4B) Where an employer
  
  deputes any apprentice under sub-section (4A), such employer shall pay to the
  
  Government the expenses incurred by the Government on such training, at such
  
  rate as may be specified by the Central Government.
  (5) Where an employer
  
  employs in his establishment less than five hundred workers, the basic training
  
  shall be imparted to the trade apprentices in training institutes set up by the
  
  Government.
  (6) In any such training
  
  institute, which shall be located within the premises of the most suitable
  
  establishment in the locality or at any other convenient place, the trade
  
  apprentices engaged by two or more employers may be imparted basic training.
  (7) In the case of an
  
  apprentice other than a graduate or technician apprentice, technician
  
  (vocational) apprentice the syllabus of and the equipment to be utilised for
  
  practical training including basic training shall be such as may be approved by
  
  the Central Government in consultation with the Central Apprenticeship Council.
  
  
  (7A) In the case of
  
  graduate or technician apprentices, technician (vocational) apprentices the programme
  
  of apprenticeship training and the facilities required for such training in any
  
  subject field in engineering or technology or vocational course shall be such
  
  as may be approved by the Central Government in consultation with the Central
  
  Apprenticeship Council.
  (8)(a) Recurring costs
  
  (including the cost of stipends) incurred by an employer in connection with
  
  basic training, imparted to trade apprentices other than those referred to in
  
  clauses (a) and (aa) of section 6 shall be borne - (i) if such employer employs
  
  two hundred and fifty workers or more, by the employer; (ii) if such employer
  
  employs less than two hundred and fifty workers, by the employer and the
  
  Government in equal shares up to such limit as may be laid down by the Central
  
  Government and beyond that limit, by the employer alone; and
  (b) Recurring costs
  
  (including the cost of stipends), if any, incurred by an employer in connection
  
  with practical training, including basic training, imparted to trade
  
  apprentices referred to in clauses (a) and (aa) of section 6 shall, in every
  
  case, be borne by the employer.
  (c) Recurring costs
  
  (excluding the cost of stipends) incurred by an employer in connection with the
  
  practical training imparted to graduate or technician apprentices, technician
  
  (vocational) apprentices shall be borne by the employer and the cost of
  
  stipends shall be borne by the Central Government and the employer in equal
  
  shares up to such limit as may be laid down by the Central Government and
  
  beyond that limit, by the employer alone.