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Cabinet approves the setting up of NIFT centre at Rae Bareli
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ANI India on 10 November, 2007 03:10:00
 
The Union Cabinet today approved the setting up of a National Institute of
Fashion Technology (NIFT) centre at Rae Bareli as a full-fledged centre like
seven other NIFT centres already functioning in the country.
The infrastructure and other facilities at the full-fledged centre of NIFT
would ease pressure on existing Delhi NIFT centre.
It will also minimise the regional mismatch between the number of seats
available and the number of applicants based on present locations of NIFT
centres.
It would also meet the requirement of additional seats on account of
implementation of Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation as and when it is
implemented.
The centre would be first centre to be set up in any backward areas of the
country.
The cabinet also gave its approval for introduction of the Block Grant Scheme
of funding on the lines of Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), Indian
Institute of Management (IIMs), for NIFT.
This will provide further functional and financial autonomy to the institute
and will encourage it to generate more internal resources, promote innovation
and result in an overall improvement in the standard of education and research.
The base year for the Block Grant Scheme will be 2006-07 and the scheme will
come into effect from 2007-08. (ANI)