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@article{167556,
        author = {H.P.Poornima},
        title = {HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE TO APPAREL INDUSTRY},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2024},
        volume = {5},
        number = {1},
        pages = {398-400},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=167556},
        abstract = {India’s higher education system is the third largest in the world after the USA and China. In 1948 the government of India established the University Grants Commission, to monitor the growth and improvement of higher education. The department of higher education has set certain key objectives such as to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio(GER) to 30% by 2020. Higher education for sustainable development emphasizes participatory teaching approaches which are needed to address social injustice, wealth and wellbeing, environmental quality and the economic challenge that face our communities today. This article is an attempt to bank upon demographic dividend of the age group 15-24 years by integrating higher education with sustainable development of apparel industry. The study has used both primary and secondary data to address sustainability issues in higher education and apparel industry.},
        keywords = {Sustainable development, Demographic Dividend, Apparel industry.},
        month = {August},
        }