The Hindu Business Line : ITIs to train youth with IL&FS aid

Coimbatore, July 27 To meet the skilled manpower requirement of the State’s textile industry, the State Government is drafting a scheme to be undertaken by the industrial training institutes with assistance provided by the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS).

Fifty ITIs have been selected for training youths. In the first phase, training would be started in 20 ITIs with the IL&FS assistance. About 50,000 youths would be trained in one year by offering need based training of specific duration, according to Mr M.R. Mohan, Commissioner, Department of Handloom and Textiles, Government of Tamil Nadu. The State is set to train about one lakh youth under this scheme. The Commissioner was speaking at the Southern India Mills Association’s textile spares exhibition inauguration here.

Later, talking to presspersons, Mr Mohan said the State Government is in the process of preparing a ‘vision’ document for improving the textile sector in the State on the lines of the one introduced by the Central Government. The State ‘vision’ document will be launched during the 2007-08 fiscal.

To encourage handloom weavers on value-added textile manufacture, the Department had already launched 1,500 handloom designs with help from the National Institute of Design and 500 more designs would be added before Deepavali. “We are also planning to introduce new designs for the powerloom weavers as well,” he said.

Of the 1,200 handloom weavers cooperative societies, 900 societies were making profits and efforts are on to nurture the remaining weavers societies to become profitable, Mr Mohan said.

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