NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY, NEW DELHI

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) is an autonomous institute headquartered in New Delhi, India, offering courses in fashion, technology, and management. It was established in 1986 under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, and was declared a statutory institute in 2006 under the NIFT Act of the Indian Parliament, which empowered it to grant its own degrees. NIFT has worked with the Ministry of Textiles to create an India-specific size chart and collaborated on designing the digital disruptive pattern camouflage uniform adopted by the Indian Army in 2022. The institute was initially housed in a small portion of Indraprastha Stadium in New Delhi before shifting to a campus in Hauz Khas designed by Gautam Bhatia. NIFT now has 19 campuses across India. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes in design, management, and technology, including Bachelor and Master programmes in Design, Fashion Technology, and Fashion Management, as well as full-time and part-time PhD programmes and continuing education programmes. Facilities include computer labs, sewing machine labs, photography labs, pattern making and draping labs, weaving labs, dyeing and printing labs, technology labs, hostels, libraries, and other student support services.