new delhi the national institute of fashion technology nift is launching a slew of new evening courses this year this includes oneyear sixmonth as well as threemonth coursesthese courses are a part of the institutes continuing education programme as opposed to the fulltime courses in addition to the three existing continuing education courses 23 courses will be added this year out of these eight courses will be offered at the delhi centre of the institute the continuing education courses are designed to cater to the needs of working professionals in the dynamic fashion industrysome of the areas that the new courses cover include knitwear textile development fashion journalism and fashion photography the sale of forms for the courses has started and october 14 is the last date for their submission classes will commence in midnovemberthe faculty for these courses will be the same as those for the regular courses in fact we will be getting a lot of faculty from the industry as well as many of them can spare time in the evening said archana gandhi assistant professor at the instituteeach department will run two to three courses the courses have different emphases in keeping with the demands of the industry some are technologyoriented others managementoriented and yet others are textile and appareloriented said banhi jha chairperson department of fashion and apparel designkapil goel a computer engineer who had joined a garment export house six months back said my job is such that it requires me to have an indepth knowledge of fashion and a course like this will certainly help