The Apparel, Made Ups and Home Furnishing Sector Skill Council plans to train 50,000 to 60,000 workers in the garment, made-up and home furnishing units in a year.
Sakthivel, chairman of the council, told presspersons here on Tuesday that the garment units in Tirupur are facing shortage of nearly 50,000 workers now. The apparel sector in the country faces shortage of 30,000-40,000 master trainers.
The council has training manual for 45 skills and the training duration ranges from 30 days to 60 days under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. If certified after training, the workers are expected to have nearly 10 per cent advantage over other workers in their wages. “The Governments (Centre and State) have different schemes to train the workers. The council has 55 training partners now. We need more training partners,” he said.
The council has started training and so far 10,000 workers were trained under the sector skill council.
Mr. Sakthivel added that the two institutions would support in training and also developing production engineers. A programme was conducted in Coimbatore on Tuesday in association with the Southern India Mills’ Association.
Roopak Vasishta, chief executive officer of the council, said that the council has signed agreement with two Canada-based institutions to train the master trainers.
M. Senthil Kumar, deputy chairman of SIMA, said that the two main challenges faced by the textile industry were absenteeism and attrition. The units should make use of the scheme to improve the skills of the workers.
