{"id":3756,"date":"2010-07-22T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T19:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2010-07-22T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T19:37:51","slug":"handloom-export-promotion-council-to-set-up-3-new-design-centers-one-to-be-in-bhubaneswar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3756","title":{"rendered":"Handloom Export Promotion Council to set up 3 new design centers; one to be in Bhubaneswar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following is an excerpt from a report in the Economic Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Handloom Export Promotion Council (HEPC) …<\/p>\n

The council decided to set up three more design centres at Varanasi and Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh and Bhubaneswar in Orissa. These centres would help handloom weavers improve product quality and design and thereby, fetch a better price.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The HEPC web site is http:\/\/www.hepcindia.com\/<\/a>. From that site I could not find information on existing design centers. However I came across the site of National Center for Textile design<\/a> in Delhi. My guess is that similar centers will be established in the three locations mentioned above. The About Us page<\/a> of the this center says the following:<\/p>\n

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The National Centre for Textile Design (NCTD) has been setup in January 2001, by the Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India,  with the objective of making innovative, ethnic and contemporary design available to the textile sector.<\/p>\n

\nThe main aim of the centre is to link people working in the centre with each other and to give the weavers & workers better exposure to the markets. This will enable them to have better livelihood and more sustainable development.<\/p>\n

The centre has both online and offline activities.<\/p>\n

The online sector will exhibit these designs nationally and globally to facilitate the textile sector in getting designs in time as per seasonal forecast requirements and to enable regions as well as to develop on each others’ concepts.<\/p>\n

We would like people, like power loom workers etc. also to benefit from the centre. This is done in several ways as for instance exhibiting their designs on NCTD website. This will give them exposure to exporters, international buyers, design houses and will help to obtain a better price for their designs through design trends and forecasts on the website and they can respond to the demands of the market in a better way.<\/p>\n

NCTD plan to link up Weavers’ Sevice Centres, Powe4rloom Service Centres and all other textile related sites to our main website through internet connectivity so that these centre can take quick and necessary advantages of the centre for the benefit of their members.<\/p>\n

Trends and Forecasts<\/u><\/strong>
\nBoth domestic and international forecasts are collated and provided in one place to cater to many middle level and smaller apparel and furnishings manufacturers, exporters and domestic textile traders and producers so that they can respond adequately and in a timely fashion to market requirements.<\/p>\n

Virtual Museum of Heritage Textiles<\/u><\/strong>
\nThis is a cyber museum of textiles collated down the ages. The material is sourced from other resources and kept as a library for future references. <\/p>\n

Design Pool<\/u><\/strong>
\nThis is one of the most important components of the NCTD. This is basically a cyber collection of new individual designs, collected from different sources and posted at one location.<\/p>\n

Handicraft Fabrics from India<\/u><\/strong>
\nThis section is essentially a directory of handcrafted textiles from India which contains a visual factual information and technical specifications of the items produced.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The proposed design center will nicely compliment the following textile and handloom related institutes in Odisha.<\/p>\n