As per the NSDC report, the overall employment in the textile and clothing sector expected to increase from about 33 to 35 million in 2008 to about 60 to 62 million by 2022.

• This would translate to an incremental humanresource requirement of about 25 million persons by 2022.
• Of this, the mainstream textile and clothing sector has the potential to employ about 17 million persons incrementally till 2022.
• With a view to address the manpower requirement of the diverse textile and related segments, the Ministry of Textiles introduced pilot phase of Integrated Skilled Development Scheme (ISDS) in the last two years of the 11th Five Year Plan Year 2010-11. Subsequently, the scheme has been scaled up during the 12th plan with a target of skilling 15 lakhs persons by the end of March 2017.
• We are proud to be one of the founding organization associated with ISDS*