The department of clothing and textile of Vadodara-based MS University’s faculty of family and community sciences recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) in Gurugram, Haryana, to offer skill development training. The MoU was signed at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar.
ATDC has a pan-India presence under the aegis of Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). “The MoU is a collaborative agreement for implementing a pilot project for imparting quality vocational skill training in the apparel sector for unemployed youth and women and other disadvantaged sections of the society,” reports quoted an MSU release as saying.
ATDC will provide the necessary industry-linked curricula, pedagogy, mobilization, infrastructure support, pre and post counselling placement after training and industry placement tracking. ATDC will initially undertake skill developm.