ABSTRACT
There is not much planned or organized training undertaken by Indian industry either of technicians, of professional workers, or of executives. The reasons arc not far to seek. Many industrial firms arc too small to devote much attention to it. A good proportion of the larger units are family businesses not as yet enthusiastic about training a second line of non-family managers though they are quite keen to get the best technical personnel at any price. Both the larger and smaller firms participate in training schemes organized by departments of government and also take on students from universities and institutes of technology to help them complete the necessary training but in both cases the initiative rarely conies from the firms. The number of firms which regularly train their recruits and organize further in-service training for their employees probably docs not exceed a score and ten which includes a few leading management-conscious Indian firms along with some foreign-based ones. This paper gives a short account of the training programme in one such Indian firm, the Delhi Cloth and General Mills. In regard to capital invested, number of employees and volume of sales, it ranks among the top ten in India. It has ten manufacturing units in India, i.e., four textile mills, one chemical and another plastic works, two sugar mills, a rayon mill and an engineering works apart from a cotton mill in Pakistan.
