Happy New Year and warm wishes for a prosperous 2018! The focus on demand-driven skilling has become a key area for capacity building in the leather industry. Last year, we saw the setting up of multi-skill centers in core leather clusters like Kanpur and Agra. This year we will expand
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The Multi Skill Training Centre for Leather trades at Kanpur-Unnao Leather Cluster (KLC) campus was inaugurated on 27th July 2017 by Shri Satish Mahana, Hon’ble Minister for Industries Development, Government of Uttar Pradesh. The training center will play a key role in skilling 50000 candidates across India and 10000 candidates
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Leather industry has to move up the ladder in skilling to include supervisors and mid-management personnel
“Skilling the supervisors and mid-management personnel is as important as skilling the workers at the base level to survive and scale in the global leather market.” Delivering this strong message for re-looking at our skill
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Leather Industry acquires a prominent place in Indian economy due to its potential for high employment and entrepreneurship. Currently, most leather clusters operate as unorganized and small enterprises with poor access to skilled workforce. It is important for leather industry to adopt scientific production methods and environment-friendly industrial practices to
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Footwear has been playing and will continue to play an important role in the development of Indian leather industry. As far as exports are concerned, India still predominantly exports men’s footwear which has a share of over 60%. However, women’s and children’s footwear constitute about 70% of global footwear market
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Highlighting the importance of shoes, the French fashion designer Roger Vivier said ‘to wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give a reality to one’s dreams.’ Today, besides the normal formals and casuals, footwear finds its use in a range of activities including sports, adventure, occupational safety, defence
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Skill development and entrepreneurship initiatives supported by the Government of India are all set for a makeover, with renewed focus on quality and employability. Apparently, the government is moving away from target based skilling programs since there is an overarching concern that trained people are not getting jobs. In other
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The second GC Meeting for the year 2017 – 2018 of LSSC was held at Le Royal Meridien, Chennai on 29th August 2017. The meeting was a ended by
Shri Habib Hussain, Chairman, LSSC;
Smt. Revathi Roy, Chairperson, FDDI;
Dr. B. Chandrasekaran, Director, CLRI and members
Shri, Rafeeque Ahmed,
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