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Nipun – Textile Skills Training Centre in Gurugram

Nipun is a professional textile skills training centre for tailoring and embroidery in Gurugram, launched in July 2017. The centre also offers capacity building to amplify the participants’ chances of securing a job. Nipun has a capacity of 600 students per year, and is equipped with 60 sewing machines, 60 hand embroidery work frames and 15 computers for basic digital literacy classes. The project aims to graduate 1800 students, whereof 114 students have already graduated following their 3-month training. After graduation the students are supported in securing a job in the textile industry, or starting their own business. Of the total graduates, 73 have secured employment as tailors and 38 work from their homes. In July 2018 the project enrolled the third cohort of tailoring trainees, consisting of 48 students across three batches.

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