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NIFT opens centre in Kannur
The ninth centre of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), inaugurated by Union Minister for Textiles Shankersinh Vaghela at Mangattuparamba in Kannur on April 19, will become a full-fledged institution of fashion business education in three years.
An industry-oriented institution, NIFT is all set to give an impetus to the handloom and textile industry in Kannur, which enjoys the status of Town of Export Excellence thanks to textile exports from here.
The Kannur centre will temporarily function on the campus of the Institute of Handloom and Textile Technology at Thottada, near Kannur, which is also the Kannur University’s Community College for Fashion Designing offering diploma courses.
NIFT Director-General Rajiv Takru announced at the inaugural function that the campus to be developed at Mangattuparamba would have all facilities available in other NIFT centres, such as fully-equipped lecture rooms, design studios, laboratories, resource centres, activity centres and hostels.
“We are going to invite expression of interest for developing the campus in Kannur,” says Devadoss, Director of the NIFT Centre in Chennai. Like other centres, the Kannur centre will be a campus with creative architecture and spaciousness, he told The Hindu-EducationPlus over phone, adding that in three years, the centre would be a full-fledged campus equipped to provide a common platform for fashion education, research and training.
He said that NIFT had provided temporary facilities for starting two batches of the Bachelor of Fashion Technology (BFTech) course in the new academic year.
Mr. Devadoss says that 30 students would be admitted to each course. The students will be selected from a list of candidates who have passed the NIFT Entrance Test 2008 held already.
MOHAMED NAZEER
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