Odisha Skill Development Authority (India) will team up with the Tirupur knitwear industry stakeholders to ensure ‘specifically trained manpower’ from Odisha for apparel production.
The skill development authority would take help from the NIFT-TEA Knitwear Institute to build knitwear industry-specific lessons into the training programmes which it had already been running through various institutes in Odisha, India. The experts from NIFT-TEA Institute will visit Odisha to oversee the existing training programmes for textile industry and suggest the changes that need to be incorporated in the lessons to suit to the knitwear production.
Rajesh, Member Secretary, Odisha Skill Development Authority said, “The collaboration will thus provide an impetus to the apparel cluster here as they need not have to train a rookie worker to cater to the specific needs in the production process and at the same time the trained workforce in Odisha also gets quality employment.”
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It may be noted that in recent times, there was an increase in the flow of labourers from Odisha to Tirupur, but at the same time the workers were found not to be fully suited for the specific needs in terms of skill required. It resulted in many workers from Odisha end up doing unskilled works and eventually they were found moving to other clusters.
