scheme 1

synergising fashion technology with tribal women's art

 

Time of scheme 5 years

Nodal agency : NIFT and TRIs in states

 

objectives:

 

1] to organise workshops to expose tribal women to new designs in fashion technology & allow them to explore avenues where their traditional ornaments can be merged into new designs.

 

2] To build leadership among tribals for business exploitation of the art of preparing ornaments.

 

3] to create small training -cum- production centres for tribal youth to learn their traditional skills alongwith a rudimentary knowledge of metalurgy.

 

4] To develop appropriate 1 & 2 year courses for the above.

 

5] create a data base at NIFT and Tribal Research Institutes where designs and human resourse information is available.

 

6] to expose and encourage NIFT students to the possibility of� using tribal art in designing.

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Target:

1] NIFT to organise� 4 workshops per year for 50 tribals + 30 NIFT students + 20 facilitators. A two - week workshop is ideal.

2]NIFT to prepare a 1 & 2 year course for tribal students.

3] TRIs to follow up on workshop recommendations on identifying potential groups.

3] NIFT and TRI to hold combined market mela� etc.

 

Monitoring: The program monitoring will have these indices:

1] No. of tribal artists who developed a market in fashion world for their ornaments.

2] Value addition in export market.

3] % of value addition that flowed back to tribal artists.

4] No. of tribals who could study at NIFT on the criterion of their skill even without a formal 12th class passing.

5] Leadership created among tribals.

6] Quality and volume of data base on human resource created in TRIs.