 Farewell arranged by AEPC in the honour of Mr. P. K. Mohanty
Farewell arranged by AEPC in the honour of Mr. P.K. Mohanty
ATDC – Ludhiana organized a workshop on Dyeing with natural Dyes and Printing
One-day workshop on Dyeing with Natural Dyes & Printing held at Punjab Agricultural University organized by ATDC, Ludhiana. Workshop coordinator Dr. Sandeep Bains, Scientist, PAU, Ludhiana coordinated the whole workshop. Thirty students from KGMT and PSQC attended this workshop.
Seminar on ‘Standard time setting’ by Roger Thomas at ATDC, Kanpur
A one-day seminar on Standard time setting by Roger Thomas, a renowned international consultant was held at ATDC, Kanpur on the 7th June 2008 with 75 participants actively taking part in the seminar. The esteemed Chief guest on this occasion was Mr. Gorakh Prasad, Director MSME and the special guest for the seminar was Dr. J. D Bakshi, Jt. Director, AEPC. Mr. Roger Thomas highlighted the importance of method study & time study in order to improve the productivity of the units. He took special interest in answering the queries of the local manufacturers.
Mr. J. D Bakshi explained the role of AEPC for the promotion of RMG export industries and the various schemes of AEPC for the technical upgradation of export units, such as collaboration of CITA, Hong Kong etc. The media persons also covered the seminar proceedings.
One day seminar cum demo presentation of Pattern making on CAD system” arranged by ATDC, Kanpur along with TUKATECH, Gurgaon
ATDC, Kanpur along with TUKATECH, Gurgaon arranged a one-day seminar cum demo presentation of Pattern Making on CAD system on the 13th June 2008. An efficient team of TUKATECH CAD experts led the seminar with their presentation on CAD system’s significance, efficiency & productivity. They proved the utility of CAD system in the apparel manufacturing units. They also briefed the students participating in the seminar about the various programmes offered by them such as Tuka Studio, Tuka Marking and Tuka design programme. In addition to the description of programmes, the team also discussed the practical implementation of these programmes with the students. The seminar turned out to be a beneficial learning experience for the students and they were highly satisfied with it.
Circular
No. 13/19/2008-EP
Government of India
Ministry of Textiles
Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi.
Tel: 23062326, Fax: 23061929
Dated: 11th June, 2008
Important labour matter on working hours in textile industry
(Report of the working group & plenary meeting)
Textiles industry has been addressing the Government on various labour related issues including flexibility in hiring labour to textiles exporting units, and raising of the daily working hours from 9 hours to 12 hours a day and weekly working hours from 48 hours a week to 60 hours a week. These issues were submitted by the Ministry of Textiles for consideration of a Group of Ministers (GoM). Subsequently, the issues have been discussed in the recent round of discussions of the Working Groups and Plenary meetings convened by the Ministry of Labour and Employment where representatives of the Central Government, State Governments, trade unions and employers’ federations also participated. The final report of the above deliberations, as conveyed by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, includes the following position:- “ State Government as ‘appropriate governments’ can notify textile exporting units as public utility services, if considered desirable. So far as the number of hours of work is concerned, the provisions are in consonance with the ILO Convention No. 1 concerning Hours of Work (Industry).
However, if workers are willing to work for more than 9 hours a day and 48 hours a week with overtime, an administrative direction from the State Government could be drawn up so that the increase in working hours would form a part of an agreement at the establishment level between the management and the trade unions. The State Government can be part of this tripartite agreement so that acts as the guarantor to ensure that the agreement gets implemented.”
(Dr. J N Singh)
Joint Secretary to the Government of India
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