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3.10 Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education
and Development (DTNBWED)
The Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education and Development
(DTNBWED) (erstwhile Central Board for Workers Education), an autonomous
body under the Ministry of Labour was established by the Govt. of India to
implement the workers education scheme. The DTNBWED is committed at
achieving the objectives of creating and increasing awareness and educating the
workforce for their effective participation in the socio-economic development
of the society, industry and nation as a whole. It organizes different types of
training programmes for the workers of organized, unorganized and rural
sectors at the National, Regional, Unit and Village level with the aim to facilitate
empowerment process amongst workers. The board extends financial support in
the form of Grants-in-Aid to the registered Trade Unions and other institutions
for conducting their own Workers Education Programme.

The Board has its Headquarters at New Delhi. There are 06 Zonal Directorates
located at Delhi, Guwahati, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Bhopal to monitor
and supervise the training activities of the Regional Directorates in the respective
Zone. It operates through a network of 50 Regional Directorates and 06 Sub-
Regional Directorates located at various parts of the country.

The Board’s activities are carried out at three levels viz. National, Regional and
Unit. The national level programmes are conducted by Board’s Apex Training
Institute i.e., Indian Institute of Workers Education (IIWE) established in 1970 at
Mumbai.
The Institute serves as an information centre and offers specialised training
programmes for labour leaders, Trade Union activist. It also serves as a clearing-
house of information for Regional and Sub-Regional Directorates of the Board.
It has research wing for developing methods and tools of teaching for workers
in the emerging situation. It conducts in-house training programmes.

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