Centre mulls institute of excellence for rubber, tyre sectorThe institute is being planned on the lines of Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) in case of Plastics and Foo...
Working to have a deemed university status for FDDI: Nirmala SitharamanKeen to resolve the issue, Sitharaman had conducted about a dozen consultation meetings with the concerned ministries, departments.
FDDI degree row: Nirmala Sitharaman says IGNOU to be roped in againAmid concerns over validity of degrees awarded to students of FDDI, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said IGNOU is being again roped i...
Government will provide all assistance in skill development: Nirmala Sitharaman"FDDI is training about 15,000 people every month. Annually about two lakh people are getting trained here and also getting jobs," Sitharam...
HRD minister Smriti Irani to build Amethi as political base,pushes for developmentRahul Gandhi has also worked on developing Amethi as an educational hub with setting up of petroleum institute, NIFT, FDDI, IIIT, nursing c...
Shiromani Akali Dal has double standards on FDI in multi-brand retail: Anand SharmaSharma said Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi- brand retail would help members of the farming community.
Centre sanctioned Rs 100 cr to set up FDDI campus in GujaratThe Union Government has sanctioned Rs 100 crore to set up a Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI) campus in Ankleshwar town in ...
- Over 110 global brands to participate in 3-day leather fair
Over 7,000 buyers from countries like Australia, China, Japan, Italy, Brazil and Chile are expected to visit the fair.
Aiming to develop India into design outsourcing hub: Anand SharmaUnion government aims to make India the "design outsourcing hub of the world" in the next decade by creating more designers in different fi...
Sonia Gandhi to visit Rae Bareli for two daysSonia Gandhi will pay a two-day visit to Rae Bareli from Nov 7 to flag off the first batch of coaches at the Rail coach factory in Lalganj.
- Rohtak's shoe business has FDDI support: Rajeev J Lakhara, FDDI
Manpower crunch in the leather industry is seen as a major weakness, especially when foreign entities look at India as a region with low pr...
- Strategy in 3 days on doubling exports by '14
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said that within next three days, the government will come out with the "final strategy" for do...
- Footwear design and dev inst to start four institutes in 2010
The Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI), set up under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, will start four institutes this y...
- Boost to leather sector: 3 more FDDIs to come up at Rs 300 cr
The Commerce Ministry is all set to add three more Footwear Design and Development Institutes (FDDI) to its kitty - Chennai, Calcutta and R...
- Rai Bareli to have first education & technology highway corridor
Rai Bareli may soon have the first education and technology highway corridor. The government intends to develop the national highway to Rai...
- Govt to open footwear design institutes
Aiming to meet the requirement of skilled manpower in footwear industry, poised to grow at 20-30 per cent in the next few years, government...
- Govt aid for tanneries to stay
Central government support for modernisation of tanneries and leather units under the Integrated Development for Leather Sector (IDLS) sche...