ALT foundation to start 15 textile colleges

23 Jan '06

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Ending of quota regime has brought forth the need for having more number of skilled manpower in textile industry to produce quality products and satisfy future requirement when capacity expansion would take place, said Madhu Kapoor, Managing Director of ALT Training College Foundation, Bangalore.

He said this while announcing foundation plans to establish 15 new colleges offering courses in various areas of textiles and knitwear industry in the country, as about one lakh trained personnel in the textile and knitting industries would be required in the near future.

Encouraged by the response from State Governments, training colleges will be established in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Punjab, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, he said.

Training colleges would come up in Coimbatore, Chennai, and Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, also.

Gujarat Government will help put up colleges in Ahmedabad, Surat and Mundra by contributing equal amount in grants and providing land at concessional rate.

An estimated Rs 5 crore to Rs 10 crore would be spent on each college, with the total outlay of more than Rs 100 crore, he said.

About 25 seats for destitutes and disbabled persons will be reserved and free scholarship would be offered to war widows and soldiers injured in the Kargil war, .

Currently existing colleges at Tirupur, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar and Delhi bring out 22,000 students trained in apparel production each year, he added.

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