Tirupur to host Business School

To focus on knitwear exports

Tirupur: The TEA Public School, the NIFT TEA Fashion Institute, the Netaji Apparel Park and the India Knit Fair Convention Centre. These are all the brainchild of the Tirupur Exporters’ Association.

Now, the association has rolled out one more projects: a business school with international standards.

The motto: not 100 per cent placement but making all the students business leaders. The school will come up on the 30-acre tea Public School at Palangarai near Avanashi.

“We want to have a number one business school here. The focus should be on international marketing and export business. In the first phase, Rs.2.5 crore will be spent on infrastructure,” says A. Sakthivel, president, Tirupur Exporters Association.

The School may be opened in the coming academic year. Consultations with leading business schools abroad for affiliation and curriculum are on. Student exchange and sending students to leading exports firms fro training are also under consideration.

• The brainchild of Tirupur Exporters’ Association
• A total of Rs.5 crore will be spent on the project

Mr. Sakthivel said a total of Rs.5 crore would be spent on the project. N. Chandran, managing trustee, tea Public School, which has air-conditioned classrooms for over 1, 000 students and an air-conditioned hostel, says the business school will have world-class infrastructure and faculty. The school will help the wards of exporters, who otherwise leave for abroad for higher studies. The school will focus on the knitwear industry, with the core subjects being marketing, financing, merchandising and manageability.

The school will be operated on a no-profit basis. The aim is not 100 per cent placement but making all the students business leaders.

Tirupur to host Business School