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Type | Public |
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Established | 1986 |
Budget | ₹120 crore (US$14 million) (FY2022–23 est.) [1] |
Director | Tanu Kashyap, IAS [2] |
Students | 11,514 [3] |
Location | Various See list |
Campus | Urban |
Language | English (primary) Hindi |
Colors | |
Affiliations | Ministry of Textiles, Government of India |
Website | nift |
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National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) is an autonomous [4] institute offering courses in fashion, technology, and management. Its head office is located in New Delhi, India. [5]
NIFT was established in 1986 under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. It was declared a statutory institute in 2006 under the NIFT Act of the Indian Parliament and empowered to grant its own degree. [6] [7] [8]
Along with the Ministry of Textiles, NIFT is in the process of creating an India-specific size chart. [9]
The new digital disruptive pattern camouflage uniform adopted by the Indian Army in 2022 was designed in association with NIFT. [10]
National Institute of Fashion Technology currently has 19 campuses spread across the country. It was established in 1986. It was initially housed in a small portion of Indraprastha Stadium (later renamed Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium), New Delhi. It shifted to a campus in Hauz Khas, designed by Gautam Bhatia, after a few years. The campuses at Chennai, Kolkata, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, and Mumbai were set up in 1995, followed by the Bengaluru campus in 1997. [11] The campus in Bhopal was set up in June 2008, [11] Bhubaneshwar in 2010, [12] Jodhpur in 2010, [13] Kangra in 2009, [14] Kannur temporarily in 2008 but permanently in 2012, [15] and Patna in 2008. [16] Raebareli in 2007, Shillong in 2008, Srinagar in 2016, [17] Panchkula temporarily in 2019 but permanently in 2022, [18] Daman in 2022. Varanasi became the latest edition in the NIFT network established in 2024.
# | Name of the Centre | City | State | Established |
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1 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi | New Delhi | Delhi | 1986 |
2 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 1995 |
3 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Gandhinagar | Gandhinagar | Gujarat | 1995 |
4 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Hyderabad | Hyderabad | Telangana | 1995 |
5 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata | Kolkata | West Bengal | 1995 |
6 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 1995 |
7 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bengaluru | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 1996 |
8 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Raebareli | Raebareli | Uttar Pradesh | 2007 |
9 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bhopal | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | 2008 |
10 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kannur | Kannur | Kerala | 2008 |
11 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Shillong | Shillong | Meghalaya | 2008 |
12 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Patna | Patna | Bihar | 2008 |
13 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kangra | Kangra | Himachal Pradesh | 2009 |
14 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bhubaneswar | Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 2010 |
15 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Jodhpur | Jodhpur | Rajasthan | 2010 |
16 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Srinagar | Srinagar | Jammu and Kashmir | 2013 |
17 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula | Panchkula | Haryana | 2019 |
18 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Daman | Daman | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 2022 |
19 | National Institute of Fashion Technology, Varanasi | Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | 2024 |
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NIFT offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programmes in design, management, and technology. [21]
The list of programmes offered by NIFT are mentioned below: