About ToT

About Training of Trainers (ToT)

The Training of trainers (TOT) shall be of 10 days duration with a batch of 20 trainers from training centres and shall be conducted at the department of hydro and renewable energy, IIT Roorkee the specialized department and having required infrastructure. The course shall cover the following-

1. Role and Responsibilities of a Small Hydropower Plant O&M technician (Jal Urja Mitra)
2. Components and layout of Small Hydro Power (SHP) plant
3. SHP plant component inspection
4. Start and Shut Down procedure of SHP plant
5. Workplace safety and hygiene
6. Effective and efficient working practices
7. Operate the Electro-Mechanical System in a SHP plant
8. Maintain the Electro-Mechanical System
9. Operate the Civil and Hydro-mechanical system in SHP plant
10. Maintain the civil and Hydro-mechanical system in SHP plant

2nd Training

2^nd Training of Trainers (TOT) under the Jal Urja Mitra Skill Development Programme

2^nd Training of Trainers (TOT) under the Jal Urja Mitra Skill Development Programme was held at the Hydro and Renewable Energy Department (HRED), IIT Roorkee from Feb 05 – 15, 2024. A total of 19 trainers from five Training Centres (TCs) namely Govt. Polytechnic Sunder-Nagar, Himachal Pradesh, Innodust Skill Development Centre, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, KC Group of Institution, Pandoga, Una, Himachal Pradesh, KC Group of Institution, Nawanshahar, Punjab and THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering & Technology, Uttarakhand attended the training programme.

A 10-day Training of Trainers (TOT) programme consists of lectures, Laboratory visits, a demonstration of SHP plant operation on a Real-Time SHP Simulator and visits to both Run of River and Canal-based Small Hydro Power stations.

Participants visited Manal SHP station (2×1.5 MW), Himachal Pradesh, Mohammadpur SHP station (3×3.3 MW), Uttarakhand, Yamuna Nagar SHP station (2×8 MW), Budhkalan, Haryana and Workshop of GoGoal Hydro Pvt. Ltd. Haridwar.

Assessment and Certification of participants are done by the Skill Council for Green Jobs (SCGJ), New Delhi.

4th Training

4^th Training of Trainers (TOT) under the Jal Urja Mitra Skill Development Programme

4^th Training of Trainers (TOT) under the Jal Urja Mitra Skill Development Programme was held at the Hydro and Renewable Energy Department (HRED), IIT Roorkee from March 17 – 27, 2025. A total of 12 trainers from four Training Centres (TCs) namely SNJB’s Shri HHJB Polytechnic, Chandwad, Nashik, Maharashtra, Prasanthi Polytechnic, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering & Technology, Uttarakhand and RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka attended the training programme with great enthusiasm and eagerness.

A 10-day Training of Trainers (TOT) programme consists of lectures, Laboratory visits, a demonstration of SHP plant operation on a Real-Time SHP Simulator, and site visits to both run-of-river and Canal-based Small Hydro Power stations.

Participants visited Manal SHP station (2×1.5 MW), Himachal Pradesh, Mohammadpur SHP station (3×3.3 MW), Uttarakhand, Western Yamuna Canal (WYC) Power House-D, Tajewala SHP station (2×7.2 MW), Haryana, Pathri SHP (3×6.8 MW), Bahadarabad, Uttarakhand, Chilla Hydro Power Station (4x36MW) and Workshop of GoGoal Hydro Pvt. Ltd. Haridwar.

The Skill Council for Green Jobs (SCGJ) New Delhi, assessed the Trainers on March 27, 2025, and certificates of participants shall be issued online.

Hydro and Renewable Energy Department, IIT Roorkee is the coordinating institution for this scheme with Prof Arun Kumar as lead coordinator along with Prof Sunil K Singal, Prof Mukesh K Singhal, Prof Rhythm Singh, Prof Himanshu Jain and Prof C S Pant. Sh SK Tyagi, Sh SV Dinkar and Sh Yogeshwar Kumar as resource experts contributed to the success of the TOT along with our faculty colleagues and Sh Suryaprakash Singh, project scientist.