NTTF Kochi
Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF) is a prominent private educational trust in India, with campuses all over south India. It was established in 1963 with Swiss co-operation, in order to provide purposeful quality education with excellent employment opportunities, with qualifications that are widely accepted by industries in India and abroad. NTTF has one of the most rigorous Diploma Programmes in India with emphasis on practical and hands-on knowledge. NTTF graduates are renowned for their practical skills in the industry. NTTF implements its programme of technical training in mechanical engineering, electronics, information technology & computer engineering and mechatronics streams at postgraduate, graduate, post diploma, diploma and certificate levels. It operates 16 training centers, located at Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Coimbatore, Dharwad, Gannavaram, Jamshedpur, Pune, Tellichery, Trivandrum, Tumkur, Goplapur, Tuticorin and Vellore.
HISTORY
The Nettur Technical Training Foundation - successor to the CSI Technical Training Institute - was established on 12 April 1958 as a joint venture between Church of South India and HEKS (Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen der Schweiz), Switzerland, with the objective of promoting technical education. Per HEKS website, the initial funds for the project was raised as offertory collections from the regional established churches in Zürich, Aargau, Basel and Schaffhausen. It was realized that there was a future for an institution imparting training in precision tool and die-making to augment the rapid industrialization of post-independence India