PANCHKULA: The 17th National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) came up in Panchkula on Tuesday. The NIFT campus has been built on 10.35 acres of land with a budget of Rs 133.16 crore. Union textile minister Piyush Goyal and Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar inaugurated the building.
Khattar said that the new campus would be developed as a world class one. He added that Rs 133.16 crore had been spent on construction of the institute, which was built on 10.42 acres of land, having academic block on 7.50 acres and hostel block on 2.92 acres. It also has parking space for 280 vehicles. The NIFT campus has been established in collaboration with the Union ministry of textiles and NIFT, Delhi.