Footwear Design & Development Institute was established by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India.
FDDI Ankleshwar (Surat) Campus is located adjacent to the NH-8 Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway next to Surat in the Bharuch district of Gujarat State. The distance between the Ankleshwar railway station & bus stand approximately is 6KM. The campus is spread over 10 acres and is situated in The GIDC (Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation) Near ESIC Hospital, Sardar Park Road in the surrounding with the state-of-the art housing & buildings. Besides ample air-conditioned classrooms, technical workshops equipped with modern state-of-art machineries, it has conference halls, seminar halls, auditorium, computer labs, Design Studio, CAD- CAM Lab and the library along with fully furnished Boys Hostel. This makes FDDI Ankleshwar (Surat) a most modern and world level campus.
| SR. NO | NAME OF PROGRAM | NO. OF SEATS |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelors Degree Programmes - 4 Years (8 Semesters) | ||
| 1 | B.Des (Footwear Design & Production) | 60 |
| 2 | B.Des (Fashion Design) | 60 |
The campus has air-conditioned well equipped classrooms, technical workshops equipped with modern state-of-art machineries. It has conference halls, seminar halls, ITSC, CAD/CAM lab and the Digital library, which makes the campus the most modern and world class institute in its own area. All classrooms are in Administrative Building. All Classroom are made not only to just create an atmosphere that is conducive to learning but, in a sense to nurture the quest for knowledge that the students possess.
The campus has a well-equipped workshops & labs with adequate number of latest machines & equipment. State-of-the-art machines are available in the Cutting, Closing, Component, Lasting & Finishing Workshops for footwear design & production and pattern making, cutting and garment construction labs for fashion design students.
FDDI Ankleshwar (Surat) has a library with books from all over the world. The library subscribes to Indian and foreign journals and magazines. The Institute provides adequate library facility for the students. The library includes the air-conditioned reading hall, Wi-Fi facility and has calm atmosphere. The Library provides various collection of books, other printed materials, and in some cases special materials such as manuscripts, newspapers and other sources of information of the Fashion Design, Leather Technology, Retail and related industry.
The computer center (ITSC) is well equipped with state-of-the-art computing resources to cater the needs of the academic as well as administrative activities of the FDDI. The center has adequate infrastructure and is working round the clock throughout the year. The salient features of the center are newest servers, storage, latest designing software, latest computers, technically competent software and hardware professionals. Fast speed Internet access is available with the help of dedicated lease line. Internet facility is made available to the staff, students and training participants for external communication and for global exposure to designing.
FDDI Ankleshwar (Surat) is a 10 acre lush green campus with all the amenities apart
from admin, lecture, workshop it has ultra-modern auditorium for entertainment, centrally air-conditioned
class rooms and Lecture halls and much more:-
1. Fully furnished Library with vast collection of Books and Magazines
2. A 90 seated computer Lab
3. VISUAL MARCHANDISING Lab
4. Auditorium with 260 seating capacity with Audio and Video Equipment
5. Workshops for Footwear, Apparel and Fashion Design, Sports grounds
6. Open Amphitheater
7. Cafeteria/Mess, Hostel facility with basic amenities
8. 24/7 Power availability.
The campus is nearby Surat and Vadodara, it’s surrounded by residential area it has virtually all amenities desired by the students, residents and faculty members.
5 Km distance from Ankleshwar Railway Station, 10 Km distance from Bharuch Railway Station, 2 Hrs drive from Surat & Vadodara Airport, 4 km from Ankleshwar- Bus station.
