Infrastructure Strengthening of Leather

Sector (ISLS)
Programmes Implemented during Tenth
Plan and Proposed during Eleventh Plan
by
Central Leather Research Institute

Presented at

Leather Research Industry Get Together

29 January 2008

Investment Based 10th Plan for Leather

Sector: Implementation Role of CLRI
Tannery
Modernization Global Benchmarking
g
150 crores
Rs 5 crores

CLRI
DIPP
400 crores

Non leather
HRD Mission footwear
Rs 10 crores Rs 2.33 crores

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 Human Resource Development
Mission
Launched in August 2004
Outreach to 1,50,000 through unique
HRD initiatives

LINKAGES ESTABLISHED
Coops
Entrepren
STATE /CENTRAL GOVERNMENT eurs

AGENCIES
CSIR Shivaji
University

KVIC
DST
HRD Mission
LEATHER
TECHNOLOGY MISSION

Artisan Private
Coops
firms

INDUSTRY ASSNS. ITI’S

NGO’S

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 MISSION OBJECTIVES
• Spread and sustain a technology culture in the Indian leather
sector.
• Provide S&T tools to empower the social segments engaged
i the
in th lleather
th iindustry
d t b by employing
l i pedagogy
d methods
th d
suited to each sub segment of the primary work force
engaged already in Indian leather industry
• Assess the needs of training institutions engaged in
development of secondary level work force in Indian leather
sector for imparting a technology culture in vocational
trainingg
• Enhance the role and value of tertiary education bodies
engaged in technology management systems to levels of
global eminence and enable strategic positioning of Indian
leather professionals in global leather trade

Criteria for selection

• The Approval for the projects was through the Inputs Approval Committee with
Director as Chairman IAC with
Chairman, CLE, NIFT, Director, IGNOU, Director, FDDI, MD as members.
During the last year of the project (May 2006) in view of the need for ensuring
completion of identified and stated objectives Inputs Monitoring-cum-Approval
Committee was constituted
• For approvals the Committee considered the following
• Number of persons benefited
• Nature of trainees expected to be benefited
• Types of technologies and skill sets planned to be upgraded
• Level of counterpart support
– in cash terms
– In kind terms
• Credibility of training institution
– Based on past record
• Strength of the proposal in terms of
– Sponsorship support from user industries
– Sponsorship from State Governments and local bodies
– Quality of trainers identified
• Sustainability after HRD mission period
• Norms for funding: Primary –Not exceeding Rs 400/person
Secondary – Not exceeding Rs 1000/person
Tertiary –Not exceeding Rs 2500/person

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 Category of people reached

5%

34% Primary Level

61% Secondary Level

Tertiary Level

30% women benefit from training activitites

Cluster Development Programmes – RUDA

& FDDI Interventions in Rajasthan
• Jodhpur, Jalore and Barmer
Districts targeting – 4000
artisans
• Jaipur & Alwar targeting
9500 artisans

• Field visits by the project

personnel.
• Work place improvement
• Practical demonstration of
the knowledge & skill.
skill
• Knowledge in the area of
new materials & methods.

Courtesy: FDDI

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Cluster Development Programmes in
Punjab
• Abohar, Malot, Muktsar, Patiala
• 4500 artisans reached
• Q
Qualityy and design
g inputs
p for the
jooti
• Implementation methodology
through deployment of project
manager and personnel at the site
of intervention
• Local craftsmen enrolled for
training, motivating and providing
the necessary linkages with the
artisan groups
• Training of 382 women in Gurudaspur
in football stitching
• Initiation of leather goods course at
ITI, Gurudaspur

Cluster Development Programmes In

Tamil Nadu by CFTI
• Erode, Perambalur, Ramnad,
Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Tanjore,
g p
Nagapattinam, , Tiruvallur,, Vellore,,
Kanchipuram
• 14,400 persons provided training
• Implementation methodology –training
at the work place of the artisans
• Hands on training in quality production
of footwear
– Material sourcing
– Material savings
sa ings
– Hand tools
– Measurements and sizing
– Designs
• Manual preparation – A step by step
guide

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 Enrolling of 60,000 shoemakers of
Agra by CLRI
• Agra is a major footwear cluster and important
especially for economy of scale of production
• The implementation methodology adopted by
CLRI was to open a filed office at Agra for a
period of almost one year.
• Project was launched on 1st December 2005
• Enrolling of 60,000 shoe makers was targeted.
62,000 shoe makers have been enrolled and
sensitized
• 210 Trainers were provided intense training by
CLRI on quality production of footwear
• Skill mapping of the enrolled shoemakers
conducted
• Social mobilizers deployed for enrolling artisan
groups through door-to-door campaigns
• Structured training programmes for various skill
sets planned in Phase II

2 lakh artisans. Annual production is 240 mn prs. 2lakh prs/day of which 53% is for domestic market.

SKILL MAPPING AT AGRA

22803
23000

18000

13000 11691
NO. OF ARTISANS

7718
8000 6677
5061
3425
3000 2376
1140
176 438 53 100 128 55 326 40 44 11 195 483 17 7 20

-2000
2000

OPERATIONS

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 Initiatives Planned for Kolkata
Leather Goods Sector
• Strengthen the leather goods sector in Kolkata by improving the
quality of the product through unique need based HRD initiatives
• Diagnostic survey conducted by FREYA need for training of
persons of various categories – designers,
designers pattern makers,
makers
supervisors, quality control identified
– On job training
– Off site training
• Identified need based training in consultation with industry
members -Training of Trainers was the first step
• Linked Training institutions such as CLRI, FREYA for conducting
tthee training
ta g programmes
p og a es – des
designs,
g s, patte
patterns,
s, stitching,
st tc g, quality
qua ty
control, O&M of machinery
• FREYA trained 102 persons in quality control, designs, pattern
making
• CLRI trained 169 persons in O&M of machinery, leather goods
manufacture
• A full fledged programme planned as Phase II

HR Initiatives for Uttar Pradesh

• KVIB, Lucknow is
implementing training
programmes for artisan
cooperatives and its own
staff
• Short term training
programmes on CETP and
ETP O&M – Banthar
Industrial Polution Control
Company
• NID-CLRI collaboration
for training of women
• Interventions underway
for footwear artisans in
Sultanpur district.
district
• FDDI interventions in
Saharanpur for footwear
artisans
• IL & FS-CLRI
collaboration for training
of stitchers

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 Women Centered Training
Programmes
• Kundrakudi: 200 women
trained in leather goods
making
• Andhra Pradesh –women
trained in leather goods
making at Vijayawada,
Kurnool, Guntur
• Women self help groups have
been formed by local NGO. 44
women under went training at
CLRI in leather ggoods making.
g
7 mini CFC’s have been
established. The women have
been trained by NID for adding
value to the product through
unique designs
2500 women trained in product making and designs. Some of them
Have formed SHG’s and become entrepreneurs

Programmes for Organized Sector

• Ranitech: Onsite tannery
• video waste management training
imparted for 405 CETP &
ETP personnel
• KILT: Stitcher’s trained
sponsored by industry
• Nadimpalli: Training in
leather goods. Placement in
companies in Chennai
Vellore: Training centre for
women. Placement in
companies in Vellore
• 2000 stitchers trained for
industry by VTA, IILP, CLRI
• IELC: Stitchers training.
Placement in companies in
Ambur
• Sumanahalli: Social cause
has led to business gains.
• Training programmes for
Erode cluster

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 WAY FORWARD

HRD Mission – Phase II

Mission Objectives
• Skill development and building
– Public private partnerships for women centered training in ITI s and
community polytechnics; in large scale numbers
• Training of trainers for skill building
– Private sector initiated,
initiated public sector delivered
– Productivity centered
• Technology centered programs
– National institutions of excellence
– International resource groups for productivity increase
• Design centered
– Design consortia of national institutions
– International resource groups
• Managerial
M i l andd social
i l skill
kill Development
D l t
– Factory centered training

Expansion of current HRD mission

targeting 3 lakh people

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Eleventh Plan Initiatives under HRD
Mission
Cluster development programmes for organised sector on Public
Private Partnership mode

Artisanal production base support for quality upgradation and

improvement of ethnic product

Support to microenterprises for providing technology competitiveness

Support for Upgradation of technical institutions conducting leather

and product courses

Generation of skilled work force for organized sector –capacity

building

Development of country specific outsourcing model

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