Web Based Industrial Training Management System (ITMS) for National Water Supply & Drainage Board

Abstract

Providing Industrial Training for several different subjects to fulfill industrial training, is one of the core activities of the Manpower Development & Training Division in National Water Supply & Drainage Board. Approximately 500 students from NWS & DB around the country participate in many different internship & on-the-job trainings per year. Previously, industrial training-related tasks such as trainee enrollment as well as issuing agreement, assignment letters and trainee records, requesting certificates, and so on were all done manually. Completing these job tasks takes a long time and requires additional staff. Another drawback of this manual procedure has been the maintenance of several types of papers in hardcopies, which makes it challenging to search information & prepare MIS reports when needed. The main objective of this system was to provide a “Web-Based Industrial Training Management System (ITMS)” to automate the activities carried around the internship & on-the-job training process by the manpower development & training division of the NWSDB, in a more secured, accurate and efficient way. In addition to that, this new system provided an accurate, reliable, efficient and user-friendly system for users. Major activities such as registering for requesting industrial training, requesting the service of a new trainee, assigning for industrial training, keeping attendance and work records, issuing a certificate were done very easily by this web-based ITM system. All the above-mentioned manual tasks are converted to function via the system by the developed web-based system and made the whole process zero paper based. This web-based system was developed using web development tools such as the PHP framework, MySQL, & Apache web server, etc. The ITMS manages every data & information through a central server, & only authenticated users could access that data and services via the internet. Finally, the major objective of this system which is to provide a “Web-Based Industrial Training Management System (ITMS)” to automate the activities carried around the internship & on-the-job training process by the manpower development & training division of the NWSDB, in a more secured, accurate and efficient way is achieved. And apart from that, new system provided a reliable, efficient and user-friendly system for users. It should be emphasized that the major goals were achieved by the developed web-based ITMS