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NIFT, UNEP India join hands to offer sustainable fashion course module

16 Oct '21
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India’s National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently joined hands to offer a general elective course on design innovation for sustainable fashion to all students of the institute. More than 20 batches of this elective course are currently running across 17 NIFT campuses across the country.

UNEP India country office Head Atul Bagai told a webinar that his office is working on several initiatives on sustainability in the textiles sector.

"We are helping the (textiles) ministry to develop a road map for a sustainable textile hub in Surat for assisting sustainability and circularity in this sector. We are also working on a study on sustainability in the Indian Handlooms and UNEP has been working with Lakme Fashion Week on the Circular Design Challenge,” he said.

“Looking at the overwhelming response, we may make ''Design Innovation for Sustainable Fashion'' a mandatory course for students or even a certificate or diploma course in the future because sustainable fashion and sustainable development is the need of the hour,” NIFT director general Shantmanu was quoted as saying by a news agency.

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