IAPMO-India staff was advised to concentrate on Plumbing Education to Employment Program (PEEP) activities until the end of May, 2009, hence all three of us concentrated on development of the following:
• Plumbing Systems Designer (PSD) and Plumbing Construction Manager (PCM) programs under PEEP’s comprising syllabus
• Instructor abstracts and PowerPoint development by Subhash
• Train the Trainer (TTT) schedules and coordination in four cities: Pune, Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi (twice)
• Highlights of UPC-I (4 seminars)
• PEEP marketing (at least 60 educational institutions and 14 training institutions)
• PEEP Presentations in all IPA Chapters
The Plumbing Technology program under PEEP is under development. The IAPMO-India three-member team successfully achieved most of the set targets; the response to the PEEP program is overwhelming and almost all the government bodies appreciate the UPC-I.
This report is divided into 4 steps:
• Targets being set by IAPMO leadership
• PEEP accomplishments in India
• Codes, our activities to promote the use of the UPC-I, its accreditation/endorsement and our approach to the government bodies
• Our expectations for success in India 12 months from now
STEP 1
• PEEP 1 and 2 launch. Target date: May 2009 –ACCOMPLISHED
• PEEP 3 launch by October 2009
• Targeted sale of 500 copies of UPC-I 2008 and ITM are on track
• Signing of 15 MoU between IAPMO-India and educational institutions by the end of 2009
• UPC-I overview in 11 Chapters
• Membership drive
• Green Symposiums
STEP 2
Apart from six MoU that have been completed so far and 20 more to be accomplished by the end of 2009, we have approached more than 200 educational institutions across India and presented the PEEP program for their consideration as curriculum.
Signed MoU with the following:
1. Sri Ramakrishna Advanced Training Institute, Coimbatore
2. College of Engineering Pune
3. Hiranandani Constructions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
4. Miraj Construction, Mumbai
5. Central Public Works Department, New Delhi
6. KATS, Bangalore
Educational institutions Most Likely to sign MoU before the end of 2009:
1. BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore
2. RV College of Engineering, Bangalore
3. Kaushalya Shale (PEEP-3), Bangalore
4. T-John College Of Engineering, Bangalore
5. Deccan College of Engineering, Hyderabad
6. Tiaba Technical Institute (PEEP-3), Hyderabad
7. Thagraja College of Engineering, Salem-Tamil Nadu
8. Shri Sidhartha Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka
9. Shivaji University, Kolhapur
10. DY Patil College of Engineering
11. Gujarat University
12. Larsen & Toubro, Chennai
13. HIRCO, Mumbai
14. Reliance Engineering Association, Mumbai
15. Godrej, Mumbai
16. Oberoi Constructions, Mumbai
17. Soba Developers, Thrissur, Kerala
18. K Raheja Corp., Mumbai
19. Peninsula Land, Mumbai
20. Unitech, Delhi
STEP 3
Our activities to promote widespread use of the UPC-I and its accreditation/endorsement are superb. IAPMO-India is proud to report that we have established an historic footprint/example by achieving a maximum number of presentations in such a short period of time to various audience groups ranging from laymen, plumbers, designers, civil engineers, construction managers, corporate members, academicians, general managers, directors of technical education, Director General of the CPWD, vice chancellors of various universities, Head of All India Council of Technical Education, Confederation of Indian Industries, Bureau Of Indian Standards and the Minister of State for Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Karnataka, India.
IAPMO-India approached and presented a copy of the UPC-I for recommendation and comments to the following government bodies in association with IPA. Each and every Government organization appreciated both volumes of the UPC-I and ITM and initiated/recommended them for code adoption within their jurisdiction.
• CPWD, New Delhi
• CII Confederation of Indian Industries, Delhi
• BWSSB, Bangalore
• Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE)
• Quality Circle of India (QCI)
• Directorate of Technical Education, Bangalore
• Directorate National Vocational Training and Employment, Bangalore
• Ministry Of Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bangalore
• VC Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
STEP 4
• Endorsement/accreditation from Bureau of Indian Standards on the UPC-I, establishing the UPC-I an Indian National Code.
• Work with CII on Skilled Development programs.
• Sign MoU with Government of India under the Ministry of Rural and Urban Development’s targeted 1,000 Crore Skilled Development program, other than SGSY program
• Introduce a module for PEEP 3, with a target of 200 training centers with 300 students per training institution per year by the end of 2010
• Monitoring the PEEP programs: proctoring exams, issuing certificates to IAPMO trained trainers and certificates to successful students
• Conduct full day workshops, “Introduction to the UPC-I” at all IPA chapters when the chapters are ready.
• Code amendment/creation of 2011 UPC-I, coordination with IPA code committee.
As you can see, in the short existence of IAPMO-India we have achieved much, but there is much more to be done in the areas of the Uniform Mechanical Code-India, Green Plumbing and Mechanical Code Supplement accompanied by Green programs (which are of critical interest to all of India), as well as code education and implementation. Now that we exist and have an operating structure, the opportunities seem limitless and we shall address them one at a time with quality in the IAPMO style.