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Apparel Training Centre to become operational from January

Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI: The Apparel Training Centre at the Khajamalai campus of Bharathidasan University, envisaged earlier this year to transform the Below Poverty Line (BPL) youth in rural areas into quality manpower for textile industry, will become operational from January.

In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding that the university’s Centre for Women’s Studies signed in October with the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services, Hyderabad, the latter, under its Cluster Development Initiative, has despatched 34 imported juki machines worth Rs.30 lakh to the training centre, where training will be imparted in batches to youth drawn from the list maintained by the district authorities.

Two master trainers, with qualification of B.Sc. Fashion Technology, identified for conducting the programme over a three-year period, are being trained by IL & FS at Bangalore.

Two sessions

After the month-long training to be held in two sessions, 68 BPL youth will be placed in large textile units in the hubs of Karur, Tiruppur and Erode.

A Tiruppur-based textile unit was eager to absorb the entire first batch, said N. Manimekalai, Director, Centre for Women’s Studies. With Chennai Silks and Cethar Vessels planning to have their apparel units in Tiruchi, placement of trainees would be much easier in the near future.

Each participant will be offered a stipend of Rs.50 a day in the first month, and receive the Government stipulated minimum wages for the next five months during the course of hands-on training at the textile units. At the end of the training, the participants will receive a certificate from Bharathidasan University based on an assessment.

The list of BPL youth from the district administration is expected. The names of the eligible members of Women Entrepreneurs Association of Tamil Nadu would also be considered, before finalising the first batch of trainees by January 10, 2008, said Dr. Manimekalai.

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