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Garment university to be set up in Bengaluru

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Fibre2Fashion
Published
Mar 16, 2018

A garment university will be set up in Bengaluru, India’s minister for fertilizers and parliamentary affairs Ananth Kumar announced recently. Addressing a womens’ rally in the city, he said the university will be set up in Bommanahalli, which has many garment factories. Union textiles minister Smriti Irani has already approved the proposal, he said.


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Irani, who inaugurated the rally, said the central government has allocated Rs 6,000 crore for the welfare of garment workers and made it mandatory for all garment factory owners to set up an internal complaints committee to look into instances of harassment of women employees, according to a report in a top South Indian English-language daily.

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