The PPDC extension centre, to be set up at an estimated cost of ₹100 million, will boost the state’s sports industry by assisting in research and development work, Punjab State Industries Minister Sanjiv Arora told a recent stakeholders’ meeting on sports goods manufacturing.
The Government Institute of Leather and Footwear Technology in India’s Punjab state recently signed an MoU with Meerut-based MSME Process and Product Development Centre to open an extension centre of the latter in Jalandhar.
The planned centre would offer facilities for testing, training, skill development and research to meet evolving global standards.
The planned centre would offer facilities for testing, training, skill development and research to meet evolving global standards, the minister said.
Punjab is the largest contributor to India’s sports goods manufacturing, accounting for nearly 65 per cent of national production and about 70 per cent of exports.
Jalandhar alone hosts more than 1,000 manufacturing units and supplied sports equipment to over 150 international markets. Arora said the new centre would help the local industry remain competitive in a rapidly expanding global market.
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