Nearly 109 students from the Skilled Tailoring Institute by Raymond (STIR) in Lucknow have successfully completed a tailoring course under the Uttar Pradesh Skill Development Mission. Most students have also bagged jobs in the textile sector followed by Raymond Shops, MBOs and tailor shops/boutiques. In the next five years, Raymond plans to launch 20 more centres across the country in a phased manner. The company also plans to train more than 10,000 students in future. STIR, which is a social initiative from the company, offers tailoring courses for marginalised and unemployed youth and women of the state, to provide them with employment/self-employment opportunities. Besides, for better customer interface, every student goes through a soft skill development training within the institute.

Surendra Singh Mission Director of UP Skill Development Mission says they always believed in offering employability linked skill development training programmes in tailoring through their social initiative in the country, STIR. He added that they were looking forward to facilitate free training to more students through this initiative in UP and the state government was supporting it as well.