About National Communications Academy-Technology (NCA-T), Ghaziabad

National Communications Academy-Technology (NCA-T) (erstwhile NTIPRIT) was established in the year 2010 as National Telecom Academy, the telecom training institute of Department of Telecommunications. Subsequently, in year 2011, the mandate of institute was expanded by bringing into the activities related to Policy Research and Innovations under its ambit and the institute was rechristened as National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training (NTIPRIT).  Since then NCA-T has grown from strength to strength and the institute is now apex Telecom Training Institute in the country.

Department of Personnel & Training has designated NCA-T as Central Training Institute (CTI). The institute is the focal point of training activities for all technical cadres in Ministry of Communications. It caters to the training needs of Indian Telecommunication Service (ITS) & BWS Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ officers, recruited through UPSC. NCA-T is also entrusted with the responsibility of conducting Mid Carrer Training Program (MCTP) of junior, middle and senior management level officers to keep them abreast with the latest development in Telecom Technologies and related Management Skills. NCA-T regularly organizes in-service trainings, workshops, conference etc. for serving Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ officers on contemporary needs. 

As an apex training institution of the country in Telecom domain and a premium telecom training institution in the Asia Pacific region, NCA-T has also shouldered the responsibility of capacity building for developing countries by conducting several courses under India Trade and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Govt. of India, Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) member countries and for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).  NCA-T is also one of the Academy Training Centre (ATC) under the ITU ATC Program. NCA-T is also mandated to act as a think-tank for policy issues and provides valuable policy inputs  to DoT from time to time.