Under the 6th base of Skill Development training being imparted by Apparel Training Design Centre (ATDC) at present around 30 young students both girls and boys are undergoing apparel training and Designing at the ATDC, SMART Centres located at Porompat Trade centre.
The training is being imparted on every sphere on making apparels with the latest machineries which are being used at the country's apparel industries.
So far, the ATDC, SMART centre has enrolled 369 trainees since March 2013 till now, where 195 has successfully completed, in which 61 trainees got placement in the country's apparel manufacturing industries, and 46 got themselves self-employed and fetching a good income and another 10 has gone for further higher studies in the field.
Recently, an Apparel Training Design Centre (ATDC) at DIC Complex, Porompat was inaugurated by Manipur Chief Minister, Okram Ibobi Singh .
Manipur has a tremendous scope for the fashion industry in the State based on the ethnic designs and motifs. ATDC Centers provide training across various stages of apparel manufacturing like, sewing machine operators, pattern engineer, machine technicians / mechanics, surface ornamentation specialists, apparel production supervisors, quality controllers, industrial engineers, etc.
ATDC's Vocational Training Institutes and the SMART Centres Pan-India have developed a capacity to train about 40,000 - 45,000 candidates in a year and provided 6-7 cycles of batches of candidates are mobilised on the ground. For mobilisation support and gap financing in 2012-13, ATDC entered into multiple collaborative partnerships with Central / Apex organisations, State governments and other agencies, NGOs, etc. Many synergies have been developed with organisations coming forward and contributing to the noble cause of 'imparting skills' and 'improving lives.
The ATDC was set-up in 1996 by the leading export council AEPC sponsored by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India (GoI) in response to the felt need for technically trained personnel and shopfloor workforce for the apparel sector so that productivity and efficiency could increase and increase availability of workforce for various labels.
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With the advent of skill development initiatives in the country and the introduction of Integrated Skill Development Scheme (ISDS) by MOT, GoI in October, 2010, ATDC was selected as a Nodal Agency on Pan-India basis for implementing the Skill Development Scheme under Component-I by the Ministry of Textiles.
In the last 3 years, after the skill development programme commenced, ATDC's proactive efforts through SMART Fast-Track shopfloor workforce training programmes under the ISDS there has been a visible improvement on the ground. In 2010, when ATDC took the ambitious challenge of training 1,72,000 candidates in five years, it seemed a daunting task with many skeptics around.