The NIFT-TEA Knitwear Institute, promoted by Tirupur garment exporters, on Friday, has signed a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sri Lanka Institute of Textile and Apparel under the Lankan government, for utilising the Lankan expertise on production management.

The draft MoU, signed in Colombo between the representatives of NIFT-TEA Institute and Sri Lankan institute, automatically gets implemented once the Lankan Government gives the formal approval.

Speaking to The Hindu from Colombo, NIFT-TEA Institute’s chairman for skill development division T. R. Vijayakumar said that as per the agreement, NIFT-TEA Institute would hold one diploma course and four certificate courses with experts deputed by the Sri Lankan institute take classes.

“This tie-up is very important as the Lankan institute been famous for producing some of the best technical experts in production technology and management in the textile industry across the globe”, he said.

The courses would be on topics connected to production, management and merchandising.

The youngsters, who get trained under the courses, could be utilised by the units in Tirupur knitwear cluster in key posts in production chain for ensuring cost effective apparel production.

Production cost

At present, large number of units in the cluster have been struggling to minimise the cost of production as well as adapt to technologies when machines used in the apparel production gets updated due to lack of adequate specialised trained people to handle production processes.

- The Hindu