AEPC ATDC project trains 100,000 apparel workers

21 Feb '14

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Mr. Uppal further informed that, the apparel industry has moved again on a growth curve with expanding capacities with about 16% growth and it in this context the approval of 12th Five Year Plan (FYP) proposal of ATDC by the Ministry of Textiles, of providing financial support for an additional target of 150,000 candidates (cumulatively 250,000 till end of 12th FYP) has come in for which we remain grateful to the Ministry of Textiles. This major step is expected to provide a further fillip to the Apparel manufacturing Industry.

Textile- Apparel Sector Value Chain has over 10 Cr people already associated with it and in the past 3 Quarters alone over 1 lakh jobs- were added in the sector despite the slowdown of manufacturing sector and employment market. Apparel sector provided the bulk of the additional jobs. In the next 7-10 years the industry has the capacity to provide employment to over 50 lakh to 75 lakh people.

The focus is to provide rapid vocational training & make available skilled youth & women to the growing apparel export / domestic sectors which face severe skill and talent deficit and attrition.

Sri Hari Kapoor, Vice-Chairman, ATDC highlighted that “India faces the tremendous challenge of providing “employable skills” through vocational training programs that too if possible through short duration training programmes of 2 to 3 months duration to earn respectable wages.

ATDC with about 190 Centres provides these Vocational skills to desirous candidates and bridge the gap between the rising manpower demand for skilled workforce of the garment industry and the employment and livelihood needs of youth and women folks in the country.”

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