CGTTI renders yeoman service in technical training

P.P.G. Sugathadasa - Thihagoda group corr.

THIHAGODA: Ceylon German Technical Training Institute has rendered a yeoman service to industries and transport sector by training skilled technicians of international standard. The CGTTI certificate has an international recognition. The fact that many a development country recognises it even for migration purposes would be an ample evidence to this, said P.H.G. Premasiri, Secretary, Ministry of Skills Development and Public Enterprise Reforms.

He made these observations to make the 20th year partnership between Ceylon German Technical Training Institute Sri Lanka and Gewerbliche Schule Metzingen (GSM) Germany at a ceremony held at CGTTI at Moratuwa recently.

The support and co-operation CGTTI has already received and also continue to receive from GSM would be main factors that have enabled to come up to the present standard of advanced technologies. The last German Director of this institute Roland Kilgus would be mainly responsible close co-operation and coordination between CGTTI and GSM, he told.

He also thanked to all those who worked hard for the success of this project. Roland Kilgus, former director/principal, Ceylon German Technical Training Institute said that the partnership between GSM and the CGTTI was sponsored in 1985. This was the first partnership between vocational training institutes in Germany and abroad. Development of solidarity between partners and support of technical know-how and training activities would be main targets of these endeavours, he said.

The proper transfer of latest technological developments in the fields of automobile and machine tool technologies would be main emphasis in these efforts. The Ministry of Economics of the state of Baden Wuerttemberg funds for a CNA lathe.

It has earmarked an important milestone in the technological advancement of Ceylon German Technical Training Institute.

Gamini Manchanayake, Director/Principal of the Ceylon-German Technical Training Institute said that CGTTI has been the leading vocational training institute in Sri Lanka and it stands as a lively symbol of friendship, goodwill and co-operation between Sri Lanka and Germany.

The present government has given top priority for vocational training for school leavers with a view to resolve the burning problem of unemployment in Sri Lanka.

Dietar Kuhn, Director, GSM, Germany, Dr. Roland F. Steurer, country director GTZ, Sri Lanka, T. Halder, Director General Ministry of Education, Baden Wuerttemberg, and Gunathilaka Banda Deputy Principal, CGTTI also spoke.