Apparel Export Promotion Council to Launch Three More Training Centres

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Apparel Export Promotion Council to Launch Three More Training Centres

Chennai: The Apparel Export Promotion Council on Monday launched its 22nd Apparel Training and Design Centre (ADTC) at Mogappair in Chennai. This is the second ADTC centre in Chennai after Guindy.

AEPC plans to launch another three in and around Chennai this year and reach 50 ATDCs across the country, imparting training to 50,000 people by the end of this year.

AEPC Chairman Vijay Kumar Agarwal told media persons that the centres had been set up to upgrade the technical skills of personnel employed in the readymade garment industry. The centres offered 10 to 12 training courses of three months to one year, with fees ranging from Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 30,000. AEPC also plans to start a two-year training course soon.

The Mogappair centre has started with 100 trainees, with the number likely to be scaled up to 200 to 300. “Each ATDC trains manpower in pattern making and cutting techniques, production supervision and quality control techniques to enable the readymade garment industry to attain maximum productivity in the face of global competition. The Mogappair centre also offers a tailor-made, short one-month course catering to specific needs of some sections of the garment Industry,” said Agarwal.

AEPC also inaugurated a new computer-aided design centre for garment designing at its Guindy centre. Agarwal said AEPC was planning four institutes of apparel management in the four geographical regions of the country, starting with the institute at Delhi, which was under construction and was expected to train 200 people initially. These were expected to offer post-graduate courses for senior production and compliance managers, among others.

“In FY07 apparel exports amounted to $9.3 billion or Rs. 42,000 crore in the country, of which Rs. 10,000 crore came from Tamil Nadu. Of this, Chennai accounted for Rs. 4,200 crore. AEPC is targeting exports of $25 billion by 2010-11 with a requirement of 1.5 million more manpower in addition to the current three million employed in the Industry. Women constitute 70 percent of the total,” added Agarwal. In FY06, a apparel exports stood at $8 billion.

According to a Crisil study, Rs. 35,000 crore is expected to be invested on infrastructure and machinery by 2010 for promoting apparel exports.

AEPC initiatives include setting up a society for human resource development, society for rural development for providing a mobile training institute for stitching operators in village interiors and a society for labour welfare.

AEPC recently tied up with the Clothing Industrial Training Authority, Hong Kong for faculty training and development of course modules for ATDCs. It is also about to finalise an MoU with the Fair Labour Authority of Washington for a module on compliance and HR management.

Apparel Export Promotion Council to Launch Three More Training Centres

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