THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(SHRI OMAR ABDULLAH)
(a) While Department of Commerce does not directly engage itself in training and research
activities, various institutions such as Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and Indian
Institute of Packaging(IIP) etc., offer such facilities through various programmes.
(b) & (c) The details are annexed.
(d) No special provisions have been made by this Department in this regard for providing
employment opportunities to the SC/ST students/staff members.
ANNEXURE
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (B) AND (C) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2106 TO
BE ANSWERED ON DECEMBER 1, 2000 REGARDING TRAINING AND RESEARCH FACILITIES TO STUDENTS/STAFF
MEMBERS ASKED BY SHRI RAJAIH MALYALA
DETAILS REGARDING THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE
TOTAL NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND EXECUTIVES TRAINED BY IIFT DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS THROUGH
LONG DURATION PROGRAMMES
PROGRAMME 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 TOTAL
Masters Programme
in International Business 97 82 78 91 92 440
Post Graduate diploma in
International Trade 40 43 29 112
Executive Masters in
International Trade 36 40 38 45 33 192
TOTAL NUMBER OF EXECUTIVES TRAINED BY IIFT DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS THROUGH MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 TOTAL
Sponsored Programmes 796 762 558 540 147 2803
Non-sponsored Programmes 489 408 548 353 247 2045
The position relating to number of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled tribes candidates who were
admitted to IIFT`s Post Graduate Programmes were as follows:-
1. MASTERS PROGRAMME IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
YEAR TOTAL SC/ST No. %AGE
1996 97 11 11.34
1997 82 13 15.85
1998 78 11 14.10
1999 91 14 15.38
2000 92 11 11.95
2. EXECUTIVE MASTERS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE(EMIT)
SESSION NO. OF PARTICIPANTS SC/ST
1996 36
1997 40 1
1998 38
1999 45
2000 33
3. POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME
YEAR TOTAL SC/ST NO. %AGE
1996 40 01 2.5
1997 43 02 4.65
1998 29 01 3.44
(The Institute discontinued this programme after 1997-98)
Admission to IIFT`s MPIB is made on the basis of an All India competitive Examination
comprising a Written Test, Group Discussion and Viva -Voce. The admission to IIFT`s PGDP,
which has now been scrapped, was also done on the basis of an All India Competitive examination.
Admission to EMIT programme is made on the basis of interviews.
For all these three post-graduate programmes of IIFT reservations for Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes candidates are made upto the following extent:
(i) Scheduled Castes 15%
(ii) Scheduled Tribes 7.5%
The short fall was due to the fact that either sufficient number of SC/ST candidates
did not apply for admission or they could not qualify in the written examination even after
lowering the cut of point upto 10%. For Management Development Programmes, including sponsored programmes there is no
reservation. All those who apply or are sponsored are admitted to these programmes.
DETAILS REGARDING INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PACKAGING
1. 2 Years Post Graduate Diploma in Packaging.
Year No. of seats offered No. of students SC/ST Percentage
1995-97 30 - 0
1996-98 30 - 0
1997-99 35 - 0
1998-2000 35 - 0
1999-2001 35 - 0
2000-2002 35 2 6
2. Intensive Training Course (Three Months Course)
1994 87 - 0
1995 81 - 0
1996 81 8 6.48
1997 110 3 3.30
1998 86 6 5.16
1999 80 6 4.80
3 Distance Education - Correspondence Course
1996-97 80 All the candidates
1997-98 61 applied are admitted
1998-99 71
1999-2000 70
2000-2001 63
4. EDP Programmes (1-2 days)
Year No. of Delegates/ %age Programmes Participants
1995-96 81 2701 The Delegates to these short term
1996-97 101 2323 programmes of 1-2 days duration
1997-98 110 2151 are normally sponsored by the
1998-99 65 2366 industries.
1999-2000 60 2148
DETAILS IN RESPECT OF FOOTWEAR DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Footwear Design & Development Institute conducts higher studies in the area of footwear
technology and also undertakes research facilities for the footwear industry through its
laboratory. The institute conducts the courses namely management in Footwear Technology MFT),
Higher Diploma in Footwear Technology(HDFT) and Diploma in Footwear Designing(DFD). The
year-wise number of students trained in the above course during the last five years are given
below:-
YEAR NUMBER OF STUDENTS TRAINED
1995-96 35
1996-97 52
1997-98 51
1998-99 40
1999-2000 70 - 248
Traditionally people from the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes constituted the footwear
manufacturing community. The people from other communities did not go into this profession.
Keeping this in view reservation was not taken into account while selecting candidates.
