niftians that is the destination that many of you will reach said smriti rajesh shah who replaced former cricketer chetan chauhan as nift chief in june also said when i joined nift the first event i attended was in gandhinagar and i had the opportunity to listen to our honourable prime minister he spoke very passionately about textiles and what it means to people and he spoke about nift he said that the job of people like us is to find ways of integrating and therefore multiplying what happens at the farm to fibre fibre to fabric fabric to fashion and styles that take our ethos of textiles abroadrajesh shah nift chief bccl ajay kumar gautam rajesh shah nift chief bccl ajay kumar gautam0137smritis seetis for nift grads smriti irani does more than just handing out degrees at convocation