Sri Lanka Institute of Textile & Apparel (SLITA) was established on July 01, 2009 under the provisioning Act No.12 of 2009 by merging Clothing Industry Training Institute and Textile Training & Services Center which had jointly served the Apparel Industry for near 25 years.

SLITA comes under the purview of Ministry of Industries and Supply Chain Management  under the new Act is empowered to award diploma, degrees at graduate and postgraduate level.