🔹 Trade Code: DGT/578
🔹 Level: NSQF Level 4
🔹 Admission Qualification: 10th Pass or Equivalent

1️⃣ Course Duration

📆 2 Years (4 Semesters)
🛠️ Extensive practical and theoretical training in machine tool operation
🎓 Emphasis on turning, threading, boring, facing, and precision measurements

2️⃣ Student Intake Capacity

👨‍🔧 Total Seats: 24 Students per unit
📝 Admission via DVET Maharashtra centralized portal
🌐 https://admission.dvet.gov.in

3️⃣ Updated Syllabus (2025–2026)

📚 Key Training Areas Include:

✅ Lathe machine operation (conventional & semi-auto)

✅ Turning of internal and external surfaces

✅ Step turning, taper turning, grooving, facing

✅ Thread cutting (metric, inch, whitworth)

✅ Use of Vernier, micrometer, dial indicators

✅ Boring and reaming operations

✅ Heat treatment of metals

✅ Reading engineering drawings and tolerances

✅ CNC turning basics (in 4th semester)

🎯 Training as per DGT-prescribed CTS syllabus, updated to meet industry trends

4️⃣ Career / Job Opportunities

🎓 After completion, Turner students can become:

• 🔩 Turner / Lathe Operator

• 🏭 CNC Machine Operator – Turning

• 🧰 Machine Shop Technician

• 🔧 Fitting Assistant in tool rooms

• 🏗️ Apprentice in manufacturing units like BHEL, HAL, Tata, Mahindra

• 🔍 Quality Control Assistant (after experience)

💼 Industries Hiring:

• Automotive, aerospace, railways, ordinance factories, power plants, MIDC industries

5️⃣ Business & Entrepreneurship Opportunity

💡 Turner trade offers scope for:

• 🔧 Opening own lathe workshop for turning/threading jobs

• 🛠️ Subcontract machining from factories/garages

• 🔩 Specialised component manufacturing (bush, bolt, shaft, gear hub)

• 📦 Work with industrial units on job-work basis

• 💰 Apply for PMEGP/MSME funding for toolroom setup