NIFT-TEA To Train 5,000 Rural Youths In Apparel Making

Apparel, Footwear, Fashion

NIFT-TEA To Train 5,000 Rural Youths In Apparel Making

NIFT-TEA College of Knitwear Fashion has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Union ministry of rural development to train rural youths in apparel industry. The Union government will provide around Rs 8000 for each person per month. Initially, 5,000 candidates will be trained in the next two years.

Under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) scheme, the institute should place at least 40% of the candidates with minimum salary of Rs 8000, and a placement Management Information System (MIS) will be created by the ministry, which will track the candidates' career progression up to four years. The institute's chairman C M N Muruganandan and director (skills), DDU-GKY, Anil Subramaniam signed the MoU in New Delhi.

General secretary of TEA (Tirupur Exporters Association) T R Vijay Kumar said, "Under the schemes of Union textile ministry and Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation Limited (TNSIDCO), the institute's Center for Apparel Training (CAT) has trained more than 15,000 unskilled labourers free of cost in the last two years. We have placed 80% of them in the garment factories."

"For the first time, the MoRD has brought DDU-GKY scheme to the textile industry in Tamil Nadu. With the scheme, we will train the candidates both in labourer and middle-level management categories, in various disciplines of apparel manufacturing like merchandiser, sewing machine operator, quality control executive, advance pattern making, garment cutter, sampling tailor, inline checker, fashion designer and production supervisor. The candidates will be given food and accommodation free of cost," said K J Sivagnanam, head of the CAT.

"The scheme will benefit both the industrial players and the government, the former will get the skilled labourers while the latter will able to create employment, especially among the rural youths. With the skill training, the candidates will get a decent training directly instead of growing from unskilled labourer," said Vijay Kumar.