National Institute of Fashion Technology Kannur

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National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kannur
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Campus of NIFT, Kannur.
Established2008
FounderMinistry of Textiles, Government of India
DirectorCol Akhil Kumar Kulshrestha(retd.)
Address
Dharmasala, Mangattuparamba
,
Kannur
,
Kerala
,
India

11°59′20″N75°22′46″E / 11.9890°N 75.3794°E / 11.9890; 75.3794
Website http://www.nift.ac.in/kannur/
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National Institute of Fashion Technology Kannur (India)

National Institute of Fashion Technology Kannur known as NIFT Kannur is one of the 18 campuses of NIFT, an institution for Fashion, Design, Technology and Management. It is located in the Dharmashala locality (Taliparamba Taluk), outside the city of Kannur in Kerala, South India.

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Location

The NIFT Centre at Kannur is one of the newer additions to the network of existing government-run fashion schools across India. It started functioning from June 2008, from a transit campus situated at Dharmashala, and moved to its permanent campus at Dharmashala in 2011. The campus is about 16 kilometres from Kannur Town and 7 kilometres from Taliparamba Town.

Courses

NIFT, Kannur, in parallel with other centres of the institute across India, offers four-year undergraduate Bachelor of Design and technology and the two-year post-graduate master's degrees in design, Fashion Management and Fashion Technology.

Currently, NIFT Kannur is offering five under-graduate and two post-graduate programmes:

Students are selected through an intensive common entrance examination process, which consists of two written examinations - GAT (General Ability Test) and the CAT (Creative Ability Test). Based on the scores of these written examinations, select students are invited for a situation test. Post the Situation Test, the final rankings of students at an all India level is released. Students then undergo a counselling process to determine their programme and campus. For the post-graduate courses, a group discussion and a personal interview is conducted based on the final rankings.

History

NIFT Kannur, India. The National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kannur campus. Photographed in August 2016 NIFT Kannur 2 August 2016.jpg
NIFT Kannur, India. The National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kannur campus. Photographed in August 2016

All India, the National Institute of Fashion Technology was set up in 1986 under the aegis of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, and has "emerged as the premier institute of Design, Management and Technology, developing professionals for taking up leadership positions in fashion business in the emerging global scenario."

Kannur campus was set up in the 2008. [1]

In 2008, this campus started functioning with two undergraduate courses—Bachelor of Fashion Technology in Apparel Production and Bachelor of Design in Textile Design—with a combined total of 51 students. [2]

Recent work

NIFT-Kannur has been recently involved in a project to revive the Khadi industry in the region. [3] In September 2016, the campus said it had a high rate of placement in fashion industry establishments across the country, with over 85 per cent of students who had completed their course having got placements through the centralised placement conducted for students of NIFT centres in different parts of the country. [2]

Sixty women, it was reported, were to be trained at National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kannur for ten days in October 2015, under the Vasthra Mandalam scheme to utilise the expertise of over 500 women skilled in designing and tailoring for developing Kozhikode South into a "major hub of (the) apparel industry". [4]

Students of the centre, in March 2014 undertook a two-day study of Kalamkari art in Pedana, a town in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The 20 students, most girls, were in their second of a four-year undergraduate course with specialisation in traditional textiles designs, and observed every aspect of the Kalamkari printing—block-making to applying colour. [5]

Senior officials

The director is Colonel Akhil Kumar Kulshrestha, while the joint director is Mr. G Ramesh Babu. [6]

Campus

The Campus was set up on 10 acres of land, allotted by State Government of Kerala, under the aegis of Ministry of Textiles. [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "NIFT Kannur records high placement rate". The Hindu. The Hindu Newspaper. September 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
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  4. ↑ "Kozhikode set to be hub for garment industry". The Times of India. Times of India. 11 October 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "NIFT students take to Kalamkari". The Hindu. The Hindu newspaper. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  6. 1 2 "NIFT Kannur's convocation ceremony on Sept 5 in Dharamshala". webindia123.com. WebIndia123. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
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