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NT Bureau
Chennai, Mar 14:
 

Apparel Export Promotion Council chairman Vijay Agarwal inaugurating an Apparel Training and Design Centre at Mogappair in Chennai recently.

        The garment industry in India would require the labour of 1.5 million people to achieve an export target of $25 billion in the coming years.

        To develop skill sets needed in the industry, the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has inaugurated its 22nd Apparel Training and Designing Centre (ATDC) at Mogappair. Already, over 20,000 personnel were being trained at the 21 ATDCs across the country and after completing the programme would be placed in the garment sector for gainful employment. 'At present, nearly three billion people are employed in the garment sector which had an export of $9.3 billion. Almost 70 per cent of staff in garment units are women,' said Vijay Agarwal, chairman, AEPC, who inaugurated the training centre.

        All the ATDC centres have tied up with the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation (NBCFDC) and National Schedule Caste Finance Development Corporation (NSFDC) in New Delhi to provide better opportunities and livelihood for the backward and minority communities. Further, the course fees at ATDC were given by AEPC corporations.

        Chennai's first ATDC at Guindy has been running well since 1996, he said and added three more centres would come up in the city and the number of ATDCs would touch 50 by the end of the year. The various ATDC centres were using sophisticated tools and systems in garment design, namely computer aided design (CAD) which was being extensively used by the industry for creating multi-various patterns and weaves of fashionable garments.

        Set up to upgrade the technical skills of personnel employed in the garment industry, ATDC provided trained manpower in the field of pattern making, cutting techniques, production supervision and QC (quality control) techniques. The ATDC centres supplied trained manpower in the field of pattern making, cutting techniques, production supervision and quality control techniques to the apparel industry to attain maximum productivity to face global competition.

        Vijay Agarwal also inaugurated a new CAD centre at ATDC, Guindy, on the occasion. The purpose of the courses at ATDCs is to give detailed knowledge on the aspects of garment making that includes production technology, pattern making, packaging, dispatch of shipment as well as marketing and merchandising skills required for handling of production in large garment factories. The centres offer tailor-made short one-month course to cater to the specific needs of sections of garment industry and the students receive hands-on training from experienced faculty on highly modernised and sophisticated machines.