Apparel sector skill council affiliates to ATDC

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SME Times News Bureau | 06 Jan, 2015
Apparel, Made-Ups & Home Furnishing Sector Skill Council has reached a big landmark when it got affiliated with the biggest institute of Apparel Trainings i.e. the Apparel Training and Design Centre, which has more than 170 centers across India and churns out more than 50000 students a year.

A ceremony was held recently in New Delhi, wherein, the Affiliation Certificate was handed over by Padmashree, Dr. A. Sakthivel, Chairman of AMH SSC to VirenderUppal, Chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council, Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India in the presence of Puneet Kumar, IAS, SG, AEPC, Dr. Darlie Koshy, DG-ATDC and Dr. Roopak Vasishtha, CEO-AMH SSC.

Apparel, Made-Ups & Home Furnishing Sector Skill Council has been formulated by the Ministry of Textiles, AEPC and NSDC to develop Skills repository for Apparel value chain, National Occupational Standards in the industry, establish well-structured Sector specific Labour Market Information System and improvise the training delivery value chain, including third party assessments and certifications.

The mandate given to the Council includes creation of National Occupational Standards, Affiliating Training Providers in Apparel Trainings and assessing and certifying the trainees of such Institutes/Training Providers.

"The Council has been given an ambitious target of certifying more than 2 million persons till 2022," said Sakthivel.

"And we are quite confident of fulfilling the dreams of our Hon'ble Prime Minister much earlier than 2022," he added.