The Financial Express, June 20, 2010
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is planning to set up mobile apparel training and design centre (ATDC) in backward districts like Kandhamal, Koraput to improve the employbility skill of the people.
"We are now having an ATDC hub in Bhubaneswar and satellite centres in Berhampur, Rourkela, Cuttack, Baripada and Sambalpur," said the state textile and handloom minister, Anjali Behera. She said the mobile centres will serve the poor people living in interior parts of the state.The minister said ATDCs have trained as many as 1000 candidates and most of them have been employed in garment industire in Mumbai, Surat, Silvassa, Bangalore, Delhi, Tirupur. She said about 530 trainess, mostly riot victims and surrendered Maoists from Kandhamal, have been employed after being passed out from the ATDCs. State handloom secretary Arati Ahuja said the ATDCs are getting offer letters from big players like Arvind, Shahai, Poppys, Knitware, Unisource Trend, Victus, Sava.
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