Act Number: 20

Act Name: The Footwear Design and Development Institute Act, 2017

Year: 2017

Enactment Date: 2017-08-04

Long Title: An Act to establish and declare the Footwear Design and Development Institute as an institution of national importance for the promotion and development of quality and excellence in education, research and training in all disciplines relating to footwear and leather products design and development and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department: Department of Commerce

Section 13: The Senate.
    The Senate of the Institute shall consist of the following persons, namely:—
         (a) the Managing Director, ex officio who shall be the Chairperson of the Senate;
         (b) the Secretary, ex officio;
         (c) the Executive Directors of all Institute campus, ex officio;
         (d) all Senior Professors of the Institute;
         (e) three persons, not being employees of the Institute, to be nominated by the Chairperson in consultation with the Managing Director, from amongst educationists of repute, from the fields of footwear, science, engineering and humanities and one of them shall be woman;
         (f) one alumnus of the Institute to be nominated by the Chairperson in consultation with the Managing Director by rotation; and
         (g) such other members of the staff as may be laid down in the Statutes.
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