With an aim to train skilled workforce for the rapidly growing export and domestic sectors of the Apparel Industry and upgrade the technical skills to improve quality, productivity and efficiency, Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) today introduced ‘Shram Bhawan’ in Gangtok. Chief minister of Sikkim Pawan Chamling inaugurated the Bhawan at Sokeythang, Gangtok in presence of several important personalities of different fields.

It is the first skill development center of ATDC in Sikkim and it aims at imparting employment oriented training and encourages entrepreneurship through Skill Development to the youth and women. The centre is well equipped with sewing machines labs, CAD lab for computerized pattern making, computer embroidery machine, and resource centre.

Chamling distributed the ATDC tool kits to the students and took keen interest about the technologically advanced machines and the training systems and conferred recognition of the state government to ATDC. “In Sikkim we have adopted a comprehensive focus on livelihood training, self-employment, wage employment as also industrial training. Our target is comprehensive accelerated progress in all sectors to improve quality of life and well-being of individuals and communities”

Darlie Koshy CEO, ATDC said the centre will be a lead partner for training in Apparel skills and “we remain grateful to chief minister and state’s labour minister for giving us opportunity to set up the centre in the prestigious Shram Bhawan.”