Besides conducting regular education programmes for young men and women seeking a professional career in the Fashion and Garment industry, NIFT also undertakes Design Development and Professional Consultancy Projects sponsored by the Public and Private sectors. Involvement of final-year students as team-members of relevant projects provides them an invaluable opportunity of working on real-life situations, as also in some cases bring them in contact with the prospective employers and helps their placement. Documentation of each Project becomes a major resource of academic programmes as well as guidelines for such projects in future.
 
NIFT being a national institution has undertaken major initiatives in Cluster Development of Handicraft & Handloom sectors in rural areas towards design development, technological upgradation and skill development in order to assist the craftsmen in economic sustainability.
 
Projects in progress at present are

1. Introduction of Fashion Design course in Women’s Polytechnic, Kohima (Nagaland)
2. Design Development and Training of Baluchari Sarees Weavers under Bishnupur Project
3. Jowai Polytechnic
4. Establishment of Design Studio under D.C. Handicraft, Ministry of Textiles
5. Akarshani Kuchai Silk Project
6. Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarojagar Yojana (SGSY) Begusarai
7. Women’s Polytechnic Institute, Narsingarh, Tripura (Tripura Polytechnic)
8. Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarojagar Yojana (SGSY) West Bengal
9. Design Competition & Products Lines (NCJD)
10. Certificate Programme in Fashion Design Management (CPFDM-I)
11. Certificate Programme in Fashion & Clothing’s (CPFC-VI)
12. State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD)
13. Projects on Intellectual Property Rights
14. Sualkuchai Silk Project
15. National Handloom Development Corporation Limited
16. Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarojagar Yojana (SGSY) Special Project Phase –II
17. Kantha Stitch, Jharkhand
18. Leather Goods & Footwear, Jharkhand

Contact
 
Project Office: 033-23352890 / 5727