Introduction

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING CENTER IS A UNIT OF UNITED CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE,A SOCIETY REGISTERED UNDER SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT 1860. ITC WAS ESTABLISHED TO DEVELOP TECHANICAL SKILL IN THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF PUNJAB.STARTING WITH PRIVATE AND UNRECOGNISED COURSES IN 1952, I.T.C. HAS NOW GROWN INTO ONE OF THE REPUTED INDUSTRIAL TRAINING INSTITUTE IN PUNJAB WITH GOVERNMENT RECOGNISED COURSES

Mission

The establishment of United Christian Institute is an expression of desire of its founding partners to participate in the task of educating young children particularly from rural and underprivileged background and by doing so initiating them into society as its full fledged members who are proficient in the basics of knowledge and skilled in its application with exemplary sense of dignity and citizenship. In order to fulfill this vision of its services to the community the Institution provides Primary and Secondary education along with Vocational Training through its various units without distinction of caste color or creed. The Institute endeavors to interpret ate the prescribed curriculum in the way which not only meet specific need of the pupils of different talents but will also develop in them a scientific temperament and sense of creativity. The institution has a special commitment towards Christian children to prepare them for leadership within the church and Christian organizations. Besides this, all efforts are made so that our students continue the unique cultural traditions of our country and to be genuinely respectful to all religious faiths

History

By the 1930s several overseas missions had established a widely scattered presence throughout the vast region of pre-partition Punjab. Both the American Presbyterians and the Methodists had a number of small schools with only a few students and a couple of teachers. This situation might have continued unchanged if the Great Depression had not happened. It brought with it severe financial difficulties and hard-pressed mission managers thought it prudent to pool the resources of several small schools in order to manage a single larger school. This strategy, which was widely used in the United States, was called consolidation of schools. Accordingly mission managers decided to close down several small schools and build a residential high school. In this manner the vision of a large central high school, established and administered by inter-denominational effort took shape. In the late 1930s a delegation of the AP mission traveled the length and breadth of Punjab in order to identify the schools, which could be wound up and merged into one. They decided to close down the Lower Middle School in Shadara and Kasur (both towns are now in Pakistan), Middle School for village teachers, Moga and Middle Boarding School and Teacher Training School for Girls, Ambala. The Methodists, on their part, decided to wind up their schools in Raiwind and Khanewal, (both places are now in Pakistan). It was then time to select a suitable location for the central school. The participating missions looked at sites in Shadara, Kasur, Ferozpur, Moga and Sahnewal in Ludhiana District. Had it not been for a severe flood which ravaged Ludhiana and The surrounding areas, the missions would have purchased the site in Sahnewal. It became necessary to look for a site in an area less prone to floods than Ludhiana was. That place was to be Suranussi, about 8 kms from the Jalandhar city centre. Having selected the location the missions constituted a governing body for the central school and registered it as The Board of Directors of the United Christian Schools of the Punjab on June 4th, 1941 under the Registration of Societies Act, 1860 at Lahore. However, classes could begin only two years later after the United Christain School (UCS) had bought a partially constructed house along with the three acres of land around it. Only two

Objective

To provide opportunities or technical education to people from socially and economically backward sections. To provide job oriented vocational training to young people and thereby equip them for e