Mission
To develop the power loom units within our catchment’s area so that it can continue to dominate the domestic market & can develop strongly in exports by evaluating its advantages & securing its shortcomings.
Our Commitment
- To provide timely and alround quality service for the balanced growth of the decentralized power loom sector, including its preparatory and allied segments.
- To be a friend, a philosopher and guide to the decentralized power loom sector.
- To act as focal centre for support to its development and growth.
- To undertake our mandate with:-
Courtesy and understanding;
Dedication and devotion to services
Objectivity and transparency;
Promptness and efficiency;
Our Resources
- Qualified technical personnel along with necessary supporting staff.
- Looms, accessories, allied equipments and teaching aids suited to the present needs.
- Laboratory testing equipments and consumables.
- Design development, exchange and warehousing facilities.
- Adequately equipped technical library.
- A broad based and industry-oriented Advisory Committee, to provide feedback and guidance to the activities of the centre.
Human Resource Development – Training
- Regular training courses on pre-weaving and weaving technology, fabric design, machine maintenance and other local needs to weavers and loom owners to acquire, improve and update their HRD skills in line with the latest and appropriate technology in the sector.
- Short duration courses for quality checkers and production supervisors on different type of fabric defects, methods of mending such defects and methods of prevention.
- Assistance to trainees in their placement in the industry or for setting up of their own units, and maintain contact with them.
- Incentives by way of stipends from the concerned State Governments and Facilitation of hostel or other suitable accommodation for outstation trainees.
Reliable textile testing services for checking quality parameters to power loom and allied sectors through our testing laboratory (if available).
Guidance and Consultancy
- Loom modernisation, design and product development, improvement in quality and productivity, cost reduction through minimization of waste etc.
- Repair and preventive maintenance of looms, accessories and preparatory machinery.
- On-site consultancy to on a felt-need basis, in respect of production and process management.
- Contemporary and demand-oriented designs, via in-house skills with the help of CAD/CAM system (if available).
- A bank of designs and motifs, from internal and external sources and through networking with National Design Centre (NDC).
- Local design development by tapping local and innovative design skills.
- Local trade expositions, organized by the industry and trade association(s).
- Participation of the local sector in export promotion programmes, in national & international trade fairs, buyer-seller meets, trade delegations/sales-cum-study teams, directly and through the Export Promotion Councils.
- Promotion of the use of information technology and e-commerce as a marketing tool.
- With all concerned institutions, including financial institutions, for a common approach to the development of the sector.
- For the transmission of the concerns and problems of the sector to the relevant authorities.
- For collectivisation of interests, through the formation of co-operatives, local self-help action groups etc. to enhance access to credit, inputs and markets.
- Special development programmes in the decentralized powerloom sector, viz. Programme for modernisation of weaving capacities by induction of 2.5 lakh semi automatic/automatic looms in the decentralised sector, as Implementing Agency. TUFS, through appropriate awareness campaigns and support services, in respect of choice of technology, project formulation and compliance with banking requirements and project implementation.
- Welfare scheme for the powerloom weavers, viz., group insurance scheme, workshed scheme etc.
Following Review Committee Meeting of PLSC Managers are being held at NITRA under the the Chairmanship of Director NITRA: Quarterly review committee meeting of all PLS centres are being held at NITRA head office,Ghaziabad