Five Training Centres in Textile Sector to come up in Orissa.

Creation of self-employment high on its agenda, the State Government today inked MoU with Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) to set up five satellite apparel training and design centres this financial year.
The centres will come up at Berhampur, Baripada, Cuttack, Rourkela and Sambalpur and the State Government will provide an initial capital of Rs 30 lakh towards their establishment. The assistance will come from the State Employment Mission, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik told the media before the signing of the MoU. Each satellite training centre will have a floor area of 5500- 7500 sq ft which the Government will provide while AEPC will bear the recurring expenses of these centres including recruitment of staff and day-to-day management, the Chief Minister said.
The satellite centres will provide training in the fields of pattern making, cutting techniques, production supervision, quality control, garment construction and machine mechanism techniques. The council, which is running the main training and design centre in the city, has conceptualised the requirements of the satellite centres keeping in mind the needs of the global apparel industry.
The textile and garment industry in the country has given direct employment to three crore people while the additional requirement of skilled manpower during the 11th Plan period has been projected at Rs 55 lakh, he said adding, there is no ready institutional framework to meet the huge demand of skilled manpower. The additional five training centres will partly meet the huge gap between supply and demand of manpower, he added.
Assuring suitable employment opportunities to eligible trained candidates, the Chief Minister said the Government will also provide necessary guidance to candidates willing to take up entrepreneurial ventures.Local candidates will be given preference during selection of candidates for training, the Chief Minister said. The five centres are expected to generate employment for over 5000 people in the garment sector annually.A local management committee under the chairmanship of concerned district collector will look after the management of respective centres.