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Government of India

Ministry of Textiles

12-December-2011 15:54 IST

It is submitted that presently five Indian Institutes of Handloom Technology are functioning across the country, under the Ministry of Textiles. In principal approval for setting up an Indian Institute of Handloom Technology at Kannur (Kerala) in State Sector, has recently been accorded on 11.08.2010. Further, this Ministry has now taken a decision to open one IIHT at Shantipur in West Bengal.

2 new Campus of the National Institute of Fashion Technology were opened in 2010, namely (i) NIFT, Jodhpur (ii) NIFT, Bhubaneswar.

The NIFT Establishes its campus under section 7 (2) (b) of the NIFT Act, 2006, according to which the Board of the Institute has power to Establish NIFT Campus.

This information was given by Smt. Panabakka Lakshmi, Minister of State for Textiles in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

DS/GK

Power to establish NIFT campuses confirmed; Board may open new campuses and approvals issued for handloom institutes. Approvals and institutional expansions were announced: additional Indian Institutes of Handloom Technology are to be established under government authorisation, and two new National Institute of Fashion Technology campuses were opened in 2010. The creation of NIFT campuses is effected under the statutory Board Establishment Power, enabling the Institute's Board to establish new campuses as the legal mechanism for expansion.