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Nitra Profile |
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Northern India Textile Research Association (NITRA) is one of the prime textile research institutes in the country. The textile industry and Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India jointly established NITRA in 1974 for conducting applied scientific research and providing support services to Indian textile industry. The organization is situated in a 50 acre land at NCR Ghaziabad, near national capital New Delhi. It is certified by ISO 9001:2015. |
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| Today NITRA’s prime activities include research & development, technical consultancy, quality evaluation of materials, manpower training, third party inspection and publishing technical books and papers. NITRA also provides facilitating services to the decentralized powerloom sector through its eight centres located at Tanda, Kanpur, Meerut, Gorakhpur, Varanasi (all in U.P.), Panipat (Haryana), Ludhiana (Punjab) and Bhilwara (Rajasthan). |
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| NITRA is operating under the administrative control of Council of Administration comprising of representatives from Textile & Apparel industry, Govt. of India, trade associations, academic institutions and Textile Research Associations. The council is presently headed by its Chairman Sh. Raj Kumar Jain, an eminent industrialist. Dr. Arindam Basu, is the present Director General of NITRA and Dr. M.S. Parmar,is the present Director of NITRA. |
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| NITRA renders multifarious services to textile & apparel industry through its rich in-house manpower resource of more than fifty experienced technical personnel comprising of textile technologist, textile chemist, garment technologist, textile designer, fashion designer, analytical chemist, mechanical engineer, electrical & electronics engineer, civil engineer, environmental engineer, software / IT specialist & management experts. This team of scientists, consultants, and technocrats is supported by the most modern and state-of-the-art infrastructure facilities available at NITRA. The organization has a clientele of about 1200 textiles and allied sector units that includes overseas clients from Indonesia, Thailand, Ethiopia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Philippines. |
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NITRA undertakes research projects in textile product development, machine design, instrument development and process development. NITRA also possesses patented technologies based on its R&D works. NITRA’s quality inspection & testing laboratories work 24x7 and analyze materials as per IS, ASTM, DIN, BS, ISO, JASO, AADTCC, EN and other customized standards. |
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| With support from Ministry of Textiles, a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for protective textiles is established at NITRA in the year 2009,.Later on Ministry of Textiles added Automotive Textiles to NITRA CoE. The activities of CoE-Protech are product development, preparation of standards/specifications, testing, training manpower, organizing workshops & seminars, and information dissemination as a resource center. |
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| NITRA’s consultancy services include various technical audits, feasibility studies, system certification services, infrastructure set up, asset valuation, third party inspection, energy conservation & energy audit, design and commissioning of ETPs & CETPs and product/process development. |
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| To meet industrial HRD needs, NITRA regularly conducts various industry-recognized job-oriented techno-management training programs across the complete textile & apparel supply chain on full-time and DLP modes. In addition to this, NITRA regularly organizes seminars, workshops and also conducts on and off-shop customized training programs. NITRA also has 170 technical publications of its own. |
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NITRA houses pilot scale spinning, weaving, knitting and chemical processing workshops for development of different types of yarns and fabrics. It also has pre-sewing, sewing, embroidery and finishing workshops for garment production. All these workshops are equipped with state-of-the-art technology. |
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| NITRA’s infrastructure facilities for quality evaluation includes six NABL, (ISO/IEC 17025:2017) accredited quality inspection & testing laboratories capable of analyzing materials as per Indian, overseas and customized standards. The CoE has established “Heat & Flame Testing Lab” to test textile and allied products for heat, flame and safety related characteristics as per International and IS standards.NITRA has an incubation centre and a Focus Incubation Centre (FIC) to provide necessary facilities to the entrepreneurs for incubation of new ideas/ technologies. Both Centres were set up with the financial assistance from Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. |
NITRA has also established Natural fiber spinning pilot plant under MOT sponsored Project Development of Value Added Products different fibres in Himalayan Region |
NITRA's third party inspection services are also accredited by NABCB, New Delhi against ISO/IEC 17020:2012. Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India has approved NITRA for conducting test & certification of Synthatic Blood Penetration Resistance Test required for Body-Covers for Covid-19. |
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| NITRA has a full-fledged Digital Library & Information Centre having stock of about 4400 books including 170 own publications. It also subscribes to 110 national and international journals including E-Journals. The library & information service is available for textile industry professionals, research scholars, and associated professionals. |
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| NITRA Technical Campus |
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NITRA has launched its new academic wing, NITRA Technical Campus (NTC) to cater to the manpower requirements of the complete textile and apparel supply chain. NTC offers 4 year B. Tech programs in Textile Technology, Computer Science & Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering (AI&ML). |
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| All these programs are approved by AICTE. The B. Tech programs are affiliated to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow (UP).NTC is spread over a huge multi-facility Wi-Fi campus with 1,68,000 sq. ft area having buildings with latest infrastructural facilities and separate hostel for boys and girls. Details about NTC is available on www.nitra.ac.in |
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