National Institute of Fashion Technology

NIFT was established in 1986 under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. It was declared a statutory institute in 2006 under the NIFT Act of the Indian Parliament and was empowered to grant its own degree.^[6][7][8]

Along with the Ministry of Textiles, NIFT is in the process of creating an India-specific size chart.^[9] The new digital disruptive pattern camouflage uniform adopted by the Indian Army in 2022 was designed in association with NIFT.^[10]

National Institute of Fashion Technology currently has 19 campuses spread across the country. It was established in 1986. It was initially housed in a small portion of Indraprastha Stadium (later renamed Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium), New Delhi. It shifted to a campus in Hauz Khas, designed by Gautam Bhatia, after a few years. The campuses at Chennai, Kolkata, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, and Navi Mumbai were set up in 1995, followed by the Bengaluru campus in 1997.^[11] The campus in Bhopal was set up in June 2008,^[11] Bhubaneshwar in 2010,^[12] Jodhpur in 2010,^[13] Kangra in 2009,^[14] Kannur temporarily in 2008 but permanently in 2012,^[15] and Patna in 2008.^[16] Raebareli in 2007, Shillong in 2008, Srinagar in 2016,^[17] Panchkula temporarily in 2019 but permanently in 2022,^[18] Daman in 2022. Varanasi became the latest edition in the NIFT network established in 2024.

NIFT offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programmes in design, management, and technology.^[21]

The list of programmes offered by NIFT is mentioned below: