A Study Group on Educated Unemployed, in 1956, recommended the establishment of the bureaux in the universities to provide their alumni with employment information and career guidance, later, in 1957, the scheme for the setting up of the bureaux was prepared by the Directorate General of Employment and Training.
The scheme envisaged bureaux to be primarily employment counselling agencies but they could also function as placement agencies for professional and highly qualified persons.
It was also intended that bureaux would cater to the needs of all students of the universities whether still pursuing studies or about to leave after completing their education.
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Some universities are having both the Students’ Advisory Bureau and University Employment Information Bureau.
The vocational guidance programme, under the supervision of the Directorate of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, is being carried on by the employment exchanges.
There is a State Vocational Guidance Officer in each state and a network of employment exchanges.
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The programme has been further strengthened under a national policy formulated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India. Regarding this policy, the Ministry has received both moral and material support from the International Labour Office (ILO).
The Central Institute of Research and Training in Employment Services (CRTES) has been set up to further strengthen the programme through research training and career study.
The UGC in consultation with the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare and Ministry of Labour, feeling the necessity of career guidance for college students, recommended that career advising units should be established in all colleges.
As a result of this recommendation, career advising units were set up in selected colleges of the country.
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At this time, vocational guidance literature is prepared by various agencies as Central Institute of Research and Training in Employment Service, D.G.E. and T., Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, Ministry of Health, Family Planning, Works, Hosing, Urban Development, National Council of Educational Research and Training, University Grants Commission, Central Statistical Organisation, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, State Guidance Bureaux, University Employment Information and Guidance Bureaux, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, State Directorates of Employment and Training, etc.
It is obvious that the necessity for vocational guidance was felt by various ministries and institutions and they made efforts to impart vocational guidance in their own way.
It is also clear that vocational guidance programme has a structure, a policy and a programme for both the colleges and the universities.