Indian textile and apparel industry is expanding its capacity to compete with other countries in the post quota scenario. Analysts believe insufficient skilled personnel is a major problem hampering industry progress and it requires foreign consultants to train personnel to man latest equipment and machines being imported from abroad, or even from within the country. The textile ministry has given the go ahead, to hire foreign consultants
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| and the apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has been appointed as the nodal agency for its implementation. Secretary General, K. K. Jalan informs that AEPC is in talks with a South African firm Method Workshop and Chesham; a Sri Lankan consultancy agency, for consultancy services. apparel Training and Design Centres (ATDCs) and individual exporting firms would use the inputs suggested by the consultants, said Madhu Kapoor, Managing Director, apparel and Leather Technics Ltd (ALT). 
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