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Mr. Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce, Industry & Textiles, and Mr. Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, Board of Governors
of NIFT, along with students at the convocation ceremony
Mr. Anand Sharma, Union
Minister of Commerce, Industry
& Textiles, has asked
fresh graduates of the National
Institute of Fashion
Technology (NIFT) to embrace
the traditional knowledge
of design in their work
and keep their connect with
ethics and ethos alive.
“Our country is a rich nation in
terms of tradition and old practices
of design. The NIFT students and
faculty have to adopt and take this
forward as a responsibility”, he said
at the 17th Convocation ceremony
at NIFT.
The Minister congratulated NIFT
on its completing 25 years and
awarded Degrees for the fresh batch
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of graduates and post-graduates of
2011 at the Convocation ceremony.
The Board of Governors of NIFT
and experts from the industry were
also present on the occasion.
Mr. Sharma said that the Indian
fashion industry is still evolving, but
surely it has made its mark. “It has
been a long journey, and the need is
to keep creating hopes and harvesting
dreams”. He lauded the NIFT
efforts in preserving and propagating
the traditional arts and crafts of
India at both the local and regional
levels.
Ms. Monika S. Garg, Director
General of NIFT, in her address,
said: “NIFT is committed to creating
and maintaining an environment
that promises an approach of knowledge
transfer. Here the academic
strategy embraces internationalism
and facilitates an invigorating
thought-process which is multi-disciplinary
and dynamic.”
She disclosed that this year, in the
presence of the Prime Ministers of
both the countries at Dhaka, NIFT
entered into an association with the
BGMEA Institute of Fashion Technology,
Bangladesh, for collaboration
in areas based on building
specific professional competencies.
“We are confident that this endeavour
will identify placement and job
opportunities for NIFTians in Bangladesh.
The institute this year has
enhanced the international visibility
and standing. NIFT has entered into
a strategic alliance with the Fashion
Institute of Technology, New York,
in the form of Dual Degree. Our
strategy seeks to realize the opportunities
to find the better placement