Two-Wheeler Technician Training

SparkL wants to run a 60-hour hands-on training programme for young people aged 18 to 25 from ITI and Polytechnic backgrounds. It covers petrol vehicles, electric vehicles, scooters and motorcycles, and needs workshop infrastructure and practical exposure to work at all.

SparkL has also identified a second gap: young people finish formal qualifications without the workplace skills that get them hired — communication, spreadsheets, presentations, email.

An ITI or Polytechnic certificate does not make someone employable in a two-wheeler workshop. The training is theory-heavy and the equipment is often a generation behind the vehicles on the road. Electric two-wheelers are the sharpest version of this: battery packs, controllers, motor diagnostics and high-voltage safety are absent from most curricula.

Hands-on training is expensive. It needs vehicles, tools, space and a trainer per small group. Manufacturer training programmes exist but are closed to their own dealer networks. Sixty hours is a real constraint: it is enough to make someone useful at a narrow set of tasks and nowhere near enough to make a general technician.

• Branch — Mechanical and Electronics. The strongest Mech and EC problem in this pool.
• Technical skills — Electric and internal combustion powertrains, battery systems, motor controllers, diagnostics, workshop practice, electrical safety, tooling and costing.
• Other skills — Teaching and instructional design, competence assessment, talking to employers about what they hire for.