KVIC opens footwear training centre in Delhi

The KVIC-CFTI Footwear Training Cum Production Centre is located at Gandhi Darshan, Rajghat. It will provide a comprehensive 2-months training programme to leather artisans for making high-quality footwear.

"The training centre will also provide logistical support to the trained artisans in starting their own shoe-making business once their two-months training is successfully completed. The artisans will also be provided a tool kit worth ₹5,000 for carrying out their activities in future," KVIC chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena said while inaugurating the new centre.

The KVIC-CFTI Footwear Training Cum Production Centre, equipped with advanced tool kits and machinery, was set up in a record time of less than two months. The inauguration was, however, delayed due to lockdown. Initially the training programme was designed for a batch of 40 leather artisans but keeping in view the social distancing norms in wake of Corona disease, the number has been reduced to a batch of 20 artisans.

KVIC is setting up a similar footwear training centre in Varanasi also.

Saxena said footwear has become an integral part of fashion and shoe-making no longer remains a menial job. “Through this training centre, we are trying to rope in maximum people with shoe-making activities. The programme has been so designed that in just two months' time, the artisans will be able to manufacture all kinds of footwear. This will increase their income by manifold.”

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RKS)