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NIFT suffers due to lack of funds in J&K

The Jammu & Kashmir government failed to allocate funds to the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) set up there six years ago. NIFT was sanctioned in 2009 by the government at an estimated cost of Rs 188 crores. Nearly 90 per cent of this was to be paid by the Centre and the remaining 10 per cent by the State.

As per documents, the state government was asked to allocate land for the project, which was subsequently identified at the Industrial Estate Ompora. It was and handed over to the Union Ministry of Textiles at an annual rent of Re 1 per year on a lease for 90 years.

The NIFT campus is nowhere in sight as of now, however, it operates from a temporary location at Rangreth Industrial Estate, which is provided by J&K SIDCO. Kifayat Rizvi, Managing Director SIDCO said that the institute failed to attract students because of lack of faculty and other facilities. SIDCO, though has already taken up the matter with NIFT authorities to make the institute functional at Ompora, he added.

Local entrepreneurs had demanded the establishment of NIFT. A group of entrepreneurs said that they thought it would be a boon in the Valley as students trained at the institute could contribute towards introducing new designs and technology in segments such as handicrafts, etc.

 
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