Venu Srinivasan to head NIFT

NEW DELHI: The Union Textiles Ministry has reconstituted the Board of Governors for the National Institute of Fashion Technology with Chairman of TVS Motor Venu Srinivasan as the Chairman of the panel. It has several prominent representatives of the textile industry as members.

The 15-member new board includes Sanjay Jayavardhanevelu of Lakshmi Machine Works, Coimbatore; Rajshree of Rajshree Spinning Mills, Coimbatore; and M. Ramaswamy of Warsaw International, Tirupur. The other prominent members in the new panel are: A. Sakthivel, Chairman, Federation of Indian Export Organisations; Dilip B. Jiwrajka, Managing Director of Alok Industries, Mumbai; and Prashant Agarwal, Managing Director of Bombay Rayon Fashions, Mumbai.

The board also includes N. K. Singh, Deepa Das Munsi, and Saroj Pandey, MPs, besides Premal Udani, Chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council. Joint Secretaries of Textiles and Human Resource Development Ministries, Financial Advisor of the Textiles Ministry and NIFT Director General are also part of the new team.

Being a statutory body, appointment of the Chairman and non-official members of the Board of Governors has been approved by President Pratibha Patil in her capacity as the Visitor of the Institute.

NIFT at present has 13 centres, at New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kannur, Mumbai, Kolkata, Raebareli, Gandhinagar, Bhopal, Kangra, Patna and Shillong.

Four more centres are coming up at Coimbatore, Jodhpur, Bhubaneswar and Srinagar.