NIFT to open more design resource centers for the handloom sector

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) is setting up 10 more design resource centers to help the handloom sector. These are being set up at weavers' service centres in Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kannur, Indore, Nagpur, Meerut, Bhagalpur and Panipat.

They would enable weavers, exporters, manufacturers and designers to access design repositories for sample/product improvisation and development.

NIFT has already established such centers at the weavers' service centers in Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Jaipur and Varanasi. Each of these centers has accumulated a large number of designs and sample over the years.

Set up in 1986, NIFT is the pioneering institute of fashion education in the country and has been in the vanguard of providing professional human resource to the textile and apparel industry.

It was made a statutory institute in 2006 by an Act of the Indian Parliament with the President of India as ‘Visitor’ and has full fledged campuses all across the country.

Over the years NIFT has also been working as a knowledge service provider to the Union and State governments in the area of design development and positioning of handlooms and handicrafts.

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