Fashion Technology to be taught as trade in UP ITIs

Lucknow, July 18 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh government today decided to introduce Fashion Technology (FT) as a trade in Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) in the state.

The decision was taken in the state cabinet meeting here chaired by Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav keeping in mind the present job scenario in the country.

Briefing newspersons here, chief secretary Naveen Chandra Bajpayee said all the 17 ITIs of UP would have the new trade of Fashion Technology from the current academic session.

He said one instructor would be appointed in each of the ITIs to teach Fashion Technology to the students and an additional budget of Rs 1.29 crore has been sanctioned for the course.

At present, there are ITIs at Meerut, Agra, Bareilly, Moradabad, Jhansi, Banda, Kanpur, Faizabad, Gonda, Azamgarh,Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Saharanpur, Mirzapur, Basti, Allahabad and Lucknow.

Similarly, UP has decided to set up Pradeshik Staff Training and Research Centre at ITI, Aliganj here to train government employees.

State government had sanctioned Rs 4.12 crore to set up the centre, where 50 posts would be created.

In another decision, the state government amended the Act to relax the age for promotion of Anganwari employees to senior Sevika from the present 45 yers to 50 yrrs. The relaxation will benefit about 300 Anganwari employees.

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