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| The institute is grooming skilled manpower for the industry and is also ensuring continuity in product development, technology upgradation and making the product globally competitive. |
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| The polymer saddletree, developed by the institute, has received acceptance worldover and its various models now account for 80-90 per cent requirements of the market. |
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| Stirrup and hand tools, developed indigenously, have been adjudged better and cheaper than the imported ones. The institute is playing a major role in designing saddles. |
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| Initially, the institute was offering only one-year certificate course. |
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| Now it is offering a 3-year diploma, 3-month courses for workers to upgrade their skills and a 4-month training course for new workers. |
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| The institute, which was set up in 2000, claims to have achieved 90 per cent placement for its students. |
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| The institute is also planning to start new courses and a riding school. |
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| When the National Leather Development Programme decided to resolve problems faced by the saddlery industry in Kanpur, it was realised the industry needed a platform, said NLDP director MP Misra. To tackle the problems on a continuous basis, the institute was started, he added. |
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| Guided by the industry, the institute had created a new awareness about technological upgradation and product quality, Misra added. |
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Saddlery is important, since it generates more employment then any other segment of the leather industry. India
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