navi mumbai the national institute of fashion technology nift in kharghar has started five courses to help rehabilitate women of the project affected villages around the site of the new international airport funded by cidco and assisted by the tata institute of social sciences which surveyed the villages two of the courses have already begun while the rest will be started shortly according to nilima rani singh the director of nift the idea was to provide these women with some skill that will help them earn their livelihood the courses include dress making pattern making photography salesmanship and entrepreneurship although we dont really conduct these courses we have initiated them to give the villagers some kind of direction she said the ideas for the courses were floated around the villages and the dress making course received the most queries a total of 49 women will be taught the skill in two batches over a period of three months she said singh added that many women would like to broaden their prospects with more courses but nift cannot accommodate more