Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Union Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the 17th campus of the National Institute of Fashion Technology in Panchkula, calling it a "fulcrum of development of the textile sector in the state."

• Khattar said that as per the policy of NIFT, 20 percent of seats in this institute will be reserved for the residents of Haryana. 
• On December 29, 2016 Smriti Irani, the then Union Textiles Minister, laid the foundation stone of this campus.
• An amount of Rs 133.16 crore has been spent on the construction of the institute building over 10.45 acres of land, built in collaboration with the textile ministry.
• The minister asked NIFT to come up with initiatives to introduce hybrid courses to expand its reach.
•  Three online hybrid courses -- photography for e-commerce, social media marketing, and digital designing for textiles — will be started in the new NIFT campus,