With a view to improve the skills of the tailors in the Home Textiles sector, a training centre has been recently started in Karur. The Karur Textile Manufacturers Exporters’ Association has provided the plot and the necessary expertise for this project. The centre conducts five-day programme on regular basis, and follows a batch system wherein each batch comprise 10 persons. Well equipped with power-operated sewing machinery provided by the association and the Rotary Club of Texcity, the centre is
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| aimed to improve the quality of the regions’ Home Textile products that rake in nearly Rs. 1200 crores annually, in form of foreign exchange. Although only those employed with the association’s members are being trained at this centre as of now, it has been proposed that the centre should be open for those in other units as well. Additionally it has been planned to modernise the centre with more machinery and to start programmes in the designing area. Furthermore, CAD/CAM facilities have been suggested to be set up for facilitate production of better designs. 
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