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INTRODUCTION
National Centre for Textile
Design (formerly known as National Design Centre) has been set up to promote
traditional and contemporary designs so as to be responsive to the rapidly
changing market demand, thereby providing adequate growth opportunity to
the Textile Industry and in particular to the Handloom Sector.
OBJECTIVES
a) To link all persons belongings
to the Textile Industry with developments in each others' fields.
b) To give weavers, workers
and designers greater exposure and access
to national and international markets thereby giving them a better
livelihood and avenues for more sustainable development.
c) This is to be achieved
by :
i. Inviting designs from
weavers, textile designers etc. and digitally displaying them in the NCTD.
This will facilitate them to sell their designs to a wider and more discerning
clientele.
ii. Feedback on designs and
its sales will enable a better and timely response to market requirements.
d) To provide trends, forecast
and data to better equip the industry to function in amarket oriented economy.
The objectives of NCTD
will be achieved through the following :
a) On-line activities,
b) Off-line activities,
c) Infrastructural logistics.
(a) On- Line Activities
i. NCTD has been envisaged
as a seamless movement. It has been recognized that mere quality of product
will not be sufficient to succeed in acut throat, competitive market with
many diverse, often contrary and rapidly changing dimensions. The key is
to be able to anticipate market needs where information and its dispersion
will be the crux.
ii. The humble but principle
drivers of this industry i.e. the weaver, mill / hand etc. do not have
the financial or social facilities either to travel to access data or to
interact with other players for this purpose. Governmental intervention
is therefore, crucial to setting up facilities which can do all this.
iii. In the textile industry
where anticipation to change is what keeps one ahead speed and reach are
of essence.
iv. Most of NCTD's activities
will be therefore articulated through its web site called "http://designdiary.nic.in".
Activities :-
1. Providing Indian and international
design and colour forecasts for apparels and home furnishings. This will
be provided twice a year just ahead of the spring-summer and fall-winter
collections.
2. Host a design pool whereby
any interested person may submit a design for exhibition and sale through
the net.
3. Database : Essentially
an electro "yellow pages". It will contain a compiled and consolidated
database of addresses and contact persons connected with all sectors of
the textile industry. This will facilitate access to relevant information
at one place thus cutting down on time and cost.
4. Virtual museum of heritage
textiles : This will be a cyber museum of textiles down the ages, which
will be sourced through research, documentation and collections. This section
will enhance awareness of Textiles.
5. Hand crafted fabrics from
India : This will provide assistance on surface embellished, painted and
printed textiles through information and updates.
b) Off-Line Activities
i. Exhibitions on sustainable
basis to provide a platform for exposure and to generate publicity.
ii. Legal cell : With the
WTO regime becoming a reality in 2004, the garment and textile industry
will need to be protected through diverse legal instruments on patents,
copy right, non-tariff barriers, anti-dumping etc. Since this is a cutting
edge field, the Legal cell will be set up to provide factual information
on newly emerging laws and procedure, as well as in areas of information
technology like site security, pass word protection etc.
Schedule of Charges
The schedule of charges for
registration as member is as follows :-
i. 50 hrs or 3 months, whichever
is earlier---Rs 1,500/-
ii. 200 hrs or 12 months,
whichever is earlier---Rs. 3,000
Address of NCTD
Director,
National Centre for Textile
Design
Handloom Pavilion, Near Gate
No. 1,
Pragati Maidan, Bhairon Marg,
New Delhi-110001
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