{"id":5576,"date":"2020-04-12T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T05:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2020-06-22T21:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:35:10","slug":"fdcis-pledge-to-fight-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/FDCI-pledge-to-fight-COVID19\/","title":{"rendered":"FDCI&#8217;s PLEDGE TO FIGHT COVID19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"ember4916\" class=\"ember-view\">The Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) has resolved to fight the deadly\u00a0pandemic and support the underprivileged. Under FDCI&#8217;s pledge to fight COVID19, a Support Fund was set up to provide financial assistance to small businesses and young designers in need. The FDCI board members including\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anandandanand.com\/safir-anand\/\"><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAVlzoABa-374zeW5U_r3D71WFkkYzHEyzM\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Safir Anand<\/span><\/a><span id=\"ember4924\" class=\"ember-view\">, President Sunil Sethi, and eminent designers &#8211; Anjanaa Bhargav, Nitin Bal Chauhan, Paras Bairoliya, Payal Jain, Rahul Mishra, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Reynu Taandon, and Varun Bahl pledged support to this cause and contributed to the support fund. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"ember4924\" class=\"ember-view\">Hon\u2019ble Minister of Textiles, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a note of appreciation of the council\u2019s initiative, said, \u201c My gratitude to the Fashion Design Council of India, ably led by Shri Sunil Sethi, for coming up with a COVID-19 fund. Today those who weave dreams onto a cloth are weaving together a support group\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the initial lot of applications, every FDCI member who applied was given assistance. In the second tranche, funds have also been distributed to\u00a0<span class=\"_50f7\">50% of the eligible designers, who are not members of FDCI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 600px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5576-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FDCI-Smriti-Zubin-Irani.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FDCI-Smriti-Zubin-Irani.mp4\">https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FDCI-Smriti-Zubin-Irani.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) has resolved to fight the deadly\u00a0pandemic and support the underprivileged. Under FDCI&#8217;s pledge to fight COVID19, a Support Fund was set up to provide financial assistance to small businesses and young designers in need. The FDCI board members including\u00a0Safir Anand, President Sunil Sethi, and eminent designers &#8211; Anjanaa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[602,512],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FDCI-Logo.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5845,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/5845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}