National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) and National Institute of Jewellery Design Technology (NIJDT) have come together to co-brand their courses. This will help to augment branding of their courses as well as utility and employability of the courses. An MOU will be signed between NIJDT and NIFT on Monday the 9th November in New Delhi for the purpose in presence of Delhi’s Industry Minister Haroon Yusuf.
According to government sources the idea is to not just co-brand both the institutes but also start programmes like student exchange, organising seminars, teacher exchange for betterment of the courses as well as their students. “NIFT has expertise in fashion technology while NIJDT has expertise in jewellery desinging. Both the institutes will be benefitted with the proposed MOU”, a senior official of the Industry department told fachcha.com.
NIJDT has been established by Delhi Government and promoted by Delhi State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) The institute currently run several diploma and certificate courses including Gemology, Jewellery Design, CAD, Dimond identification and other to cater the demand of gemstone, dimond and jewellery industry. NIFT is an established name in the fashion industry and run several graduate and post-graduate courses like fashion designing, apparel designing, leather design, accessory designing, textile designing and several others.