Improving quality of Indian Textiles for conformity Assessment of Textiles and Clothing for Japanese Markets

Ref: MR/2017/1470 27^th April, 2017

To: Members of the Council

Sub: Improving quality of Indian Textiles for conformity Assessment of Textiles and Clothing for Japanese Markets

Dear Member,

The Council is glad to inform you that Textile Committee, a statutory body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Textiles, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Japan Textile Products Quality and Technology Centre (QTEC), Japan which is one of the very renowned organizations in Japan providing world class facilities for quality evaluation, standardization, technology evaluation, conformity assessment, technical guidance and education, factory certification for the textile industry of Japan.

The Textiles Committee has entered into this MoU with QTEC with following objectives:

Participation of QTEC experts in the industry capacity building for export of textiles and clothing compliance to Japanese market.
Capacity building of Textiles Committee Laboratories.
Visit of QTEC experts to oversee the available laboratory facilities of Textiles Committee and suggest measures for consolidation.

In this connection, we would like to inform you that Textiles Committee is organising capacity building programs at 9 major textile clusters of India. In Mumbai the programme is schedule on 18^th May, 2017 in Textile Committee Auditorium, Prabhadevi from 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm. Mr. Tasaka, Director, Overseas Coordination Department of QTEC and Mr. Kei Funaki, ASEAN & South Asia Regional Manager, QTEC will be addressing the gatherings on the occasion. A detailed centre wise programme schedule is given in Annexure-1.

In view of the above, the Council requests you to participate in this useful programme. For confirmation of our participation kindly email to tclabmumbai@gmail.com OR Shri Kartikay Dhanda, Director Labs, Tel : 022-66527519, 91-9833964177 E-mail : dlab.tc@nic.in with an intimation to the Council on its mail id srtepc@srtepc.in.

Thanking you,

V. ANIL KUMAR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR