The Toyota Technical Education Programme (TTEP), the training programme by Toyota, has been launched pune.This is done by the Toyota Kirloskar Motor in conjunction with Toyota Motor Corporation and its dealer network in the country. Currently, TKM has partnered with five technical training institutes in the country. Toyota has plans to launch another six more institutes in the country. These would be in Bangalore, Kochi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, New Delhi and Pune. So far about 66 technicians out of the 74 who underwent the TTEP training at the institutes have been employed by Toyota dealership. The programme was started a year ago. The company plans to partner with 20 industrial training institutes in the country by 2009 and an investment of Rs 6 crore would be utilised for the entire TTEP. On the job training at Toyota dealerships would be part of the curricula and noted that TTEP curriculum has been synchronised with the ITIs syllabus in the second year of the course.