Northern India Textile Research Association - NITRA

Northern India Textile Research Association (NITRA), certified with ISO 9001:2008, 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 at NCR Ghaziabad, near national capital New Delhi. It is spread over a huge lush green campus with 50 acre area. Today NITRA’s prime activities include research & development, technical consultancy, quality evaluation of materials, manpower training and publishing technical books and papers.

NITRA Technical Campus : The New Academic Wing to Support Training Activities

NITRA, in 2011-12, has opened its new academic wing, NITRA Technical Campus from the grants received from MoT under ISDS and also grants received from U.P. State Govt. under ASIDE Scheme, for facilitating its various training programs. The new campus offers more than 100 programs under Integrated Skill Development Scheme (ISDS) for skill development and skill up gradation of workers working in textiles and apparel industry. Campus also offers B. Tech programs in Textile Technology and Computer Science & Engineering and PGDM on Fashion Retail Management (FRM) for youngsters.