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Thursday, Dec 18, 2003
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Automobiles NID plans to set up auto design centre in Pune Our Bureau
Mumbai , Dec. 17 REFLECTING the growing importance being given to automobile designing in India, the National Institute of Design (NID) plans to have a tripartite sector specific facility at Pune. NID, which already has a similar designing facility for the infotech sector in Bangalore, is working on a design centre for jewellery in Gandhinagar besides the one cited for automobile designing. Such tripartite centres bring together NID's expertise, industry participation and funding from the likes of UNIDO and offer scope for industry-oriented work by NID's post-graduates. According to Dr Darlie O. Koshy, Executive Director, NID, $1 million is likely to be invested between the jewellery and automobile designing facilities. While the Maratha Chamber of Commerce is keen to provide space for the project, companies including Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra have shown interest in being industry partners. This aside, NID is working towards starting a post-graduate programme in transportation design, in league with the Art Centre, Pasadena. Further, in a bid to catalyse general interest in designing, NID intends to work along with two other institutes to offer courses that initiate students to the world of designing. In terms of rigour, this course would be a notch below NID's regular programmes. It is hoped to kick-off next year, Mr Hasmukh Shah, Chairman, Governing Council, NID, said on the sidelines of the CII-NID Design Summit 2003, here on Tuesday. Though the country showcased over the last few years its ability for indigenous design and development of automobiles, Dr Koshy estimates, "We have around 2,600 designers as against eight million engineers.'' Automobile designers are a mere handful.
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