Date 3 Aug 2012 11:36:05 IST , Deccan Herald Tags: Fashion Design
The students of municipal corporation-run primary schools and thousands of its employees would soon don designer uniforms as the East Delhi Municpal Corporation has decided to get their attire designed by the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology.
Apart from the 2.4 lakh students studying in the primary schools of east corporation, around 15,000 employees under group D would also get the newly-designed dresses.
Officials said the initiatve is aimed at transforming the organisational culture of the corporation.
“We already provide uniforms to the group D employees and students. The initiative is just to give them a new and better look. We have written to NIFT to design the uniforms. They have already formed a project team and we are expecting a sample soon,” said East Corporation commissioner SS Yadav.
Two uniforms
As per plans, the NIFT designers would design two set of clothings – one for the summer and one for the winter season.
While the coporation provides Rs 500 as cash transfer per year in lieu of uniforms to all the students, the dresses of the group D employees are procurred and distributed by the civic body.
“The students would have to get the clothes stitched as per the design appoved by the corporation,” Yadav said.
The students of municipal corporation-run primary schools and thousands of its employees would soon don designer uniforms as the East Delhi Municpal Corporation has decided to get their attire designed by the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology.
Apart from the 2.4 lakh students studying in the primary schools of east corporation, around 15,000 employees under group D would also get the newly-designed dresses.
Officials said the initiatve is aimed at transforming the organisational culture of the corporation.
“We already provide uniforms to the group D employees and students. The initiative is just to give them a new and better look. We have written to NIFT to design the uniforms. They have already formed a project team and we are expecting a sample soon,” said East Corporation commissioner SS Yadav.
Two uniforms
As per plans, the NIFT designers would design two set of clothings – one for the summer and one for the winter season.
While the coporation provides Rs 500 as cash transfer per year in lieu of uniforms to all the students, the dresses of the group D employees are procurred and distributed by the civic body.
“The students would have to get the clothes stitched as per the design appoved by the corporation,” Yadav said.
