The annual regional (southern and western region) principals’ conclave 2012 was held at the newly inaugurated ATDC Campus, KINFRA International Apparel Park, Thiruvananthapuram from February 6-9.

The regional conclave 2012 focussed on formulating clear strategy and detailed plan of action for the year 2012-13 as ATDC needs to gear-up to meet the challenging target of training 34,000 candidates under the ATDC-SMART training project, under the ISDS, MOT, GoI and over 4,000 candidates under the ATDC-IGNOU community colleges.

The first day started with an insightful opening session by Prof Raja Sekheran Pillai, former VC-IGNOU and principal secretary, science and technology department, Govt of Kerala.

Skill Pyramid for the entire workforce requirement from shop floor to managerial level in the apparel sector. Prof Pillai specially highlighted from the pyramid model coined by Dr Darlie Koshy, DG&CEO-IAM & ATDC that it can be tapped for S&T skills as garment manufacturing entails science and technology.