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Apprentices Act, 1961

Section 9: Practical and basic training of apprentices

Section 9 of the Apprentices Act, 1961 explained with current 2025-26 amendments, employer controls, evidence and connected Rules.

Law Hub L8Data reviewed on 17 July 2026India-first compliance

What section 9 does

Places the training-delivery obligation on the employer and regulates basic and practical training arrangements.

Connected instrument: Rules 7, 9 and 9A; Schedules IV/IVA

Finin2min practical reading

  • Identify the apprentice category, trade, establishment jurisdiction and applicable portal before applying the provision.
  • Separate statutory apprenticeship from internships, probation, traineeships and ordinary employment.
  • Do not treat scheme reimbursement as a substitute for the employer’s underlying statutory obligations.
  • Preserve the contract, approvals, portal trail and training evidence as one auditable file.

Employer control and evidence pack

  • Executed/registered contract and portal acknowledgement
  • Training plan, attendance/work diary and supervisor records
  • Stipend bank/DBT evidence where relevant
  • Adviser approval, correspondence or order where the section requires it

Statutory text extract

Extracted from the bundled official/consolidated source. For sections amended in 2026, the current overlay above controls over older consolidated wording.

9. Practical and basic training of apprentices.—1[(1) Every employer shall make suitable
arrangements in his workplace for imparting a course of practical training to every apprentice engaged by
him.]
    (2) 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 3[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.
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      [(3) Such of the trade apprentices who have not undergone institutional training in a school or other
institution recognised by the National Council or any other institution affiliated to or recognised 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 workplace for
practical training, undergo a course of basic training and the course of basic training shall be given to the
trade apprentices in any institute having adequate facilities.]
    (4) Where an employer employs in his establishment five hundred or more workers, the basic training
shall be imparted to 5[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 instalments to meet the cost of the land,
construction and equipment for such separate building.
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     [(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 in any designated trade 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 or technician (vocational) apprentices, the
programme of apprenticeship training and the facilities required for such training in any designated trade
shall be such as may be approved by the Central Government in consultation with the Central
Apprenticeship Council.]
6. Sub-sections (4A), (4B), (5) and (6) omitted by Act 29 of 2014, s. 8 (w.e.f. 22-12-2014).

Compliance consequence

Failure should be tested against sections 30, 31 and 31A as in force from 22 June 2026, alongside contract termination/compensation consequences and any portal or scheme action.

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