Date: 25th April 2018
TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL,
Dear Members,
As you are aware, the textile and apparel industry is one of the earliest industries developed in India, and its entire value chain from fiber to apparel manufacturing has a strong presence within the country. It is also the biggest employer after agriculture.
In this connection, in order to meet the skill gap in the industry, and also to supplement its efforts initiated through the Special Package for Garments and Made-ups, the Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India has approved the new Scheme titled “Scheme for Capacity Building in Textiles Sector (SCBTS)” for the entire value chain of textiles except Spinning and Weaving in the organized Sector for a period of three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20.
In this context, the “Press Note”, which is self-explanatory, is given herewith for your ready information and reference.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
S. BALARAJU
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Shri Sri Narain Aggarwal, Chairman, The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council had been keenly following on the progress of the new scheme on Skill Development, which had been approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in the month of December 2017.
Shri Sri Narain Aggarwal has expressed his delight at the scheme being formally launched today under the name of ‘Samarth’ with the objective of providing skills to the youth for gainful and sustainable employment in the Textile Sector. The Textile Sector which is the second largest employer in the country can now add impetus to the Prime Minister’s noble idea of “Make in India’ by aiming to skill nearly 10 lakh young Indians (in organized plus traditional textile sectors) over a period of three years from 2017 to 2020.
Further commending the Ministry of Textiles, headed by the Hon’ble Union Minister of Textiles, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, he said that the outlay of Rs. 1300 crores covering the entire textile value chain (except spinning and weaving) would set the country on track to meet its objective of achieving USD 300 billion by 2025 in the Textile sector. The Chairman, SRTEPC was very happy to note that the scheme will have National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) compliant training courses with funding norms as per the Common Norms notified by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE).
The Chairman also appreciated the fact that this scheme would also serve the larger social good of involving the cross sections of our society including rural, remote, LWE affected, North East, J&K, by imparting skills in the identified job roles. Preference will be given to various social groups, SC, ST, differently abled, minorities and other vulnerable groups. At a time when the world is increasingly looking to fulfill its obligations of gender equality, implementation of this scheme will continue to empower women, who constitute nearly 70% of the work force employed in the Textile sector, especially the apparel and knitting segments.
He was pleased to note that the Textile Committee will be the Resource Support Agency (RSA), which shall perform various functions to identify and finalize skill development needs, standardize and develop the course content, specify the training centre’s infrastructure, standard admission assessment certification and accreditation processes, empanel assessment agencies, conduct training of trainers and training of assessors etc. The scheme also will ensure 70% placement of the successful trainees.
Shri Sri Narain Aggarwal complimented the Bio Metric processes involved in selection of the candidates to be trained which mandated the necessity of having an ‘Aadhar Card’ and an attendance system that will be integrated with a centralized MIS to ensure real time attendance of all involved, thereby ensuring the effective implementation of the scheme.
SRI NARAIN AGGARWAL
CHAIRMAN
24th April 2018
