Archive · 28 Sep 2026
Women in manufacturing: Manesar institute trains more female workers
The Japan-India Institute for Manufacturing teaches students how to work with machines, vehicles, and electrical equipment.
It is located in Manesar, Haryana.
Nishika is learning to repair and paint cars there.
She hopes the training will help her enter the second year of a polytechnic course.
Only a small number of students at the institute are girls.
The institute is trying to attract more girls with free tuition, a women’s hostel, and more women staff members.
Students spend part of the year in classrooms and part learning on the shop floor.
They can also receive a stipend while they train.
The Japan-India Institute for Manufacturing in Manesar offers practical training in automotive and electrical trades.
Women make up about 9% of the institute’s annual intake, up from 2% when it opened.
The institute aims to increase female admissions to 30% by 2028-29.
Measures include a women’s hostel, more female staff, and a full tuition-fee waiver for female students.
NITI Aayog found women represented only 5.5% of enrolment in core engineering trades at Industrial Training Institutes from 2019 to 2024.
- Who
- Students at the Japan-India Institute for Manufacturing, including female trainees, Maruti Suzuki India Limited, and NITI Aayog.
- What
- The Manesar institute is training students for manufacturing trades while working to increase female participation.
- When
- The reported enrolment figures cover the institute’s current intake and NITI Aayog data from 2019 to 2024; the institute’s target is for 2028-29.
- Where
- The institute is in Manesar, Haryana; students also come from other parts of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
- Why
- To prepare students for manufacturing jobs and address the low representation of women in core engineering trades.
- Institute
- Japan-India Institute for Manufacturing, Manesar
- Operator
- Maruti Suzuki India Limited
- Annual intake
- About 400 students
- Female enrolment
- About 9%, up from 2% when the institute began
- Female admissions target
- 30% by 2028-29
- Training structure
- Five months in classrooms and seven months on the shop floor
- Female enrolment in core ITI engineering trades
- 5.5% between 2019 and 2024, according to a NITI Aayog working paper