Apparel, Made-Ups & Home Furnishing Sector Skill Council has got affiliated with the biggest institute of Apparel Trainings i.e. the Apparel Training and Design Centre, which has more than 170 centers across India and churns out more than 50000 students a year.
The mandate given to the Council includes creation of National Occupational Standards, Affiliating Training Providers in Apparel Trainings and assessing and certifying the trainees of such Institutes/Training Providers.
An official ceremony was held recently in New Delhi, wherein, the Affiliation Certificate was handed over by Padmashree, Dr. A. Sakthivel, Chairman of AMH SSC to VirenderUppal, Chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council, Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India in the presence of Puneet Kumar, IAS, SG, AEPC, Dr. Darlie Koshy, DG-ATDC and Dr. Roopak Vasishtha, CEO-AMH SSC.
Sakthivel said that the Council has been given an ambitious target of certifying more than 2 million persons till 2022 and they are quite confident of achieving the target assigned and intend to fulfill the dreams of Hon’ble Prime Minister much earlier than 2022.
Apparel, Made-Ups & Home Furnishing Sector Skill Council has been formulated by the Ministry of Textiles, AEPC and NSDC to develop Skills repository for Apparel value chain, National Occupational Standards in the industry, establish well-structured Sector specific Labour Market Information System and improvise the training delivery value chain, including third party assessments and certifications.
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