The Maritime Training in the Directorate assumes a great deal of importance with quality assurance as a condition precedent for approval of Training Institutes and its various courses under the Directorate General of Shipping.

2.            Currently, decisions for grant of approval to Training Institutes and the various pre-sea and post sea courses are taken on the basis of appreciation of the case in each individual file.  It is felt that the file based closed loop decisions may lead to lack of transparency as well as lack of collective wisdom in appreciating the case in its totality.

3.         Therefore, it is felt that the Directorate should follow the University Patten of Committee-based decision to usher in more open and transparent decision making process and to eliminate delay arising out of file based decisions on individual cases.         

4.         In order to ensure a holistic appreciation of the case  against a set of listed quality parameters for purpose of granting approval to Training Institutes per-se and to the pre-sea and post sea courses offered by them, the Director General of Shipping and Ex-Officio Additional Secretary to the Government of India hereby constitutes a Collegium to take all such decisions. The Collegium will be an in-house body with the following members:

5.         The Chairman of the Collegium may co-opt two or three Resource Persons and such other members as may be considered necessary to accomplish the above task.

6.         The Collegium will scrutinize the approvals of the Institutes and that of additional courses sought for by them.   The Collegium will address all issues of Academic Councils including induction of energetic Resource persons who share the concern of the Directorate.

 7.        The first meeting of the Collegium will take a decision on the various proposals to restructure the academic council including a decision on  the frequency of  Collegium meeting, issues to  be listed  before it, the  method  of Annual Scheduled / Unscheduled Inspections, Inspections for Course approvals, Surprise Inspections, Capacity building of the Institutions for quality assurance and  capacity  building  of  the  Academic  Council  members  and  several  other  institutional arrangements to improve the functioning of Academic Council including establishment of Local Inspection Committee(LIC) system and establishment of a co-ordination cell for the Collegium.  Thus, the Collegium will take decisions on matters pertaining to the Academic Council in consultation with the Training Branch.  The proposals currently pending in the Training Branch will also be put to the Collegium for consideration.

9.         This issues with the approval of the Director General of Shipping and Ex-Officio Additional Secretary to the Government of India.

By order

Sd/- 
(P H Krishnan)
Dy. Director General of Shipping