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SHILLONG : After NEIGRIHMS, Indian Institute of
Management (IIM) and Institute of Hotel Management (IHM),
Shillong is likely to boast of another premier institute
-- a centre of the prestigious National Institute of
Fashion Technology (NIFT).
This was disclosed by NIFT Director General Rajiv Takru
after his meeting with State Chief Secretary Ranjan
Chatterjee here on March 26. Mr Thakru said the matter
would be discussed at the NIFT Board meeting at New
Delhi on April 2.
"We are awaiting final approval of the Central
Government for setting up of the institute in Shillong,"
Mr Takru said.
The NIFT DG said he was keen on starting the Shillong
NIFT Centre from a temporary campus for this year's
academic session from July-August.
Expressing the hope that the proposed NIFT Centre would
be set up in Shillong, which is regarded as the 'fashion
capital of North-East', Mr Takru said various states of
the region were interested in having centres of the
fashion institute of international repute.
"We will put forward a comprehensive proposal for
setting up of NIFT Centre in Shillong to the Union
Textiles Ministry, and we are hopeful of getting it
approved," he said.
NIFT, an autonomous body under the Union Textiles
Ministry, was set up in 1986. The institute has been a
pioneer in fashion business education in the country
through a network of eight professionally-managed
centres at New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Gandhinagar,
Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Rae Bareli.
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