Textile industry will revive, says Union Minister Piyush Goyal
1 year, 3 months ago

Textile industry will revive, says Union Minister Piyush Goyal

The Hindu  

Indian textile industry will regain its lost glory in the future and Tamil Nadu will be in the forefront in the sector, said Union Minister for Textiles, Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal, in Coimbatore on Thursday. Unveiling the bust of first Finance Minister of independent India R.K. Shanmugham Chetty at the Southern India Mills’ Association, the Minister said that when the British came to India, they destroyed the textile industry in Coimbatore region for the growth of Manchester. The Indian textile machinery industry should work to innovate and promote Make in India so that the country became self-sufficient in textile machinery production, he said. Ravi Sam, chairman of Southern India Mills’ Association, sought measures to remove the import duty on cotton and said signing of Free Trade Agreement with the United Kingdom would double textile and apparel exports.

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Puducherry govt. restarts engagement with SITRA for revival of textile industry
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Puducherry govt. restarts engagement with SITRA for revival of textile industry

The Hindu  

The Puducherry administration has restarted its engagement with the South India Textile Research Association to explore the possibility of reviving the textile industry in the Union Territory, following a direction from Lieutenant Governor K. Kailashnathan. A few weeks ago, two members of SITRA, Coimbatore, inspected the now-defunct Swadeshee-Bharathee Textile Mills Limited and Anglo French Textiles, after the administration made a …

Cotton is passé. Can India ever make it big in this fashionable textile market?
1 month, 1 week ago

Cotton is passé. Can India ever make it big in this fashionable textile market?

Live Mint  

Chennai: It was early June 2021. Once MMF textile exports pick up, the quality of raw material will improve," said Rajkumar Agarwal, managing director, SVG Fashions Pvt. The government has applied the Quality Control Order, a regulatory standard that ensures that products sold in India are of good quality, on select polyester filament yarn imports such as ‘fully drawn yarn’. …

Can India’s garments industry benefit from Bangladesh’s turmoil?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Can India’s garments industry benefit from Bangladesh’s turmoil?

Live Mint  

Asia’s rise has been stitched together by the textile industry. Recently a group of exporters based in Tiruppur, a textile hub in southern India, said it had earned fresh orders worth $54m because of the unrest in Bangladesh. The head of sourcing at Gap says the American fashion brand remains “cautiously optimistic” about Bangladesh’s future. Between 2016 and 2023 the …

Competing in the Global Apparel Arena: How India Can Rise Above the Textile Tide
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Competing in the Global Apparel Arena: How India Can Rise Above the Textile Tide

Hindustan Times  

India's textile and apparel sector holds significant potential to create more and better employment, especially from the labour-intensive apparel segment. However, the sector faces important challenges in adapting to global market demands. It requires both the government and private sector to play their part. The government could help by rationalising domestic taxation and reducing import tariffs along the entire supply …

India’s fraying garment industry needs a stitch in time under Modi 3.0
5 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s fraying garment industry needs a stitch in time under Modi 3.0

Hindustan Times  

In 2011, McKinsey, the global consulting firm, conducted a survey of chief purchasing officers at top western apparel makers in order to gauge the supply chain shifts afoot in the industry. “Entry into synthetics would make factories run full year and increase wages manifold.” Fast fashion is a low-margin industry with a complex production process, and one indicator could determine …

Textile units in Tamil Nadu face labour shortage
7 months ago

Textile units in Tamil Nadu face labour shortage

The Hindu  

Textile clusters in Tamil Nadu, which were hit by steep drop in orders for the last two years, are now facing a new challenge - shortage of workers. K. Selvaraju, secretary general of the Southern India Mills’ Association, said wages had increased 20% for textile workers in Rajasthan and 28% in Odisha. With a large number of workers from other …

Textile industry discusses measures needed to achieve higher growth rate
7 months ago

Textile industry discusses measures needed to achieve higher growth rate

The Hindu  

The National Committee of Textile and Clothing industry, comprising major textile associations and export promotion councils, deliberated on Saturday on measures to be taken to revive the Indian textile and clothing sector. Rakesh Mehra, chairman of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry, said the average capacity utilisation in textile units across the value chain is 65 %. On the indications …

Textile industry has long term goals as its focus: CITI
7 months, 1 week ago

Textile industry has long term goals as its focus: CITI

The Hindu  

The Indian textile industry is working an action plan that will look at what the industry can achieve by 2047, according to Rakesh Mehra, chairman of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry. “The textile industry has faced challenges on multiple fronts, including geopolitical uncertainties, shifting consumer preferences, and stiff competition from other sectors. The recent India-European Free Trade Association Agreement …

Tamil Nadu: Labour crisis grips Tiruppur as UP migrants return home over increased job opportunities
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu: Labour crisis grips Tiruppur as UP migrants return home over increased job opportunities

Op India  

The Pran Pratishtha of Bhagwan Ram Lalla at the Ayodhya Ram Mandir not only enlivened the supreme deity but also the fortune and economy of Uttar Pradesh. However, a migrant worker crisis has engulfed the Tirruppur apparel industry as the migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh are returning to their homeland with job opportunities opening up in their home state, especially …

Tamil Nadu to promote technical textile production
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu to promote technical textile production

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu government is likely to look at a procurement policy to buy its technical textile requirements from the local industries. According to M. Vallalar, Textiles Commissioner, Tamil Nadu, textile manufacturers in Coimbatore and Tiruppur who are focusing on cotton-based products should come forward to make technical textiles. Director general of Northern India Textile Research Association Arindam Basu said …

Textile Industry Challenges Result in Wage Reductions and Worker Flight
1 year ago

Textile Industry Challenges Result in Wage Reductions and Worker Flight

The Hindu  

The challenges over the past year at India’s textile and apparel sector, the country’s second-largest employer with almost 45 million direct jobs, have exposed the vulnerabilities of its workers and the fragile ecosystem they operate in. Ghost towns Electrical posts, factory gates, or tree trunks that carried “tailors wanted”/“workers wanted” boards at Tiruppur, known as India’s ‘t-shirt town’, stand bare. …

Textile industry crisis looms large as demand hits a low
1 year ago

Textile industry crisis looms large as demand hits a low

The Hindu  

December 08, 2023 07:00 am | Updated 07:00 am IST Sivakumar, who operates a foundry in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, usually buys scrap from the southern districts of the State. But, for the Indian textile and clothing industry, there are multiple issues stunting its growth and competitiveness — raw material prices, escalating input costs, quality control orders, and import of …

Textile industry in Tamil Nadu worried over losing investments to other States
1 year ago

Textile industry in Tamil Nadu worried over losing investments to other States

The Hindu  

November 30, 2023 06:10 pm | Updated 11:23 pm IST Media reports of incentives planned in the draft textile policy of Gujarat were circulated widely among the textile and apparel manufacturers in Coimbatore and Tiruppur on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. There has been widespread concern within the industry over the past few months of investors moving from Tamil Nadu and …

Darn it! It is fashion’s time to repair: An essay by Mridula Ramesh
1 year, 1 month ago

Darn it! It is fashion’s time to repair: An essay by Mridula Ramesh

Hindustan Times  

A hundred years ago, a few kilometres from where I write, a fashion moment changed the course of India. Growing plant-based fibres such as cotton consumes 55 to 99 billion cubic metres of water per year worldwide, or roughly as much as all households in India use in a year or two. About seven years before Gandhi’s khadi reveal, British …

Spinning mills in Tamil Nadu to go on strike from November 7
1 year, 1 month ago

Spinning mills in Tamil Nadu to go on strike from November 7

The Hindu  

Open-end spinning mills in Tamil Nadu that supply yarn to producers of mops, mats, kitchen towels, lungis, etc. G. Arulmozhi, president of the open-end spinning mills’ association, told presspersons in Coimbatore on Saturday November 4, 2023, that open-end spinning mills, numbering almost 600 in Tamil Nadu, produce yarn worth ₹60 crores a day. Open-end spinning mills in Panipat, Haryana, he …

SIMA calls for relook at power sector policies for textile industry
1 year, 2 months ago

SIMA calls for relook at power sector policies for textile industry

The Hindu  

The Southern India Mills Association has appealed to the Tamil Nadu government to review its policies related to energy for textile industry. “Tamil Nadu has been the most attractive destination for new investments mainly due to its unique energy policies relating to wind power, open access power, third party power etc., thus making the power intensive sectors like textiles to …

Will review import levy on cotton after consulting Agriculture Ministry, says Piyush Goyal
1 year, 3 months ago

Will review import levy on cotton after consulting Agriculture Ministry, says Piyush Goyal

The Hindu  

A decision on removing the import duty on cotton will be taken after holding consultations with the Agriculture Ministry, said Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Textiles, Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution. When asked about the textile industry’s demand for removal of the 11 % duty on cotton, the Minister told The Hindu, “We need to balance …

T.N. Industries Minister urges garment industry in Tiruppur to focus on technical textiles
1 year, 5 months ago

T.N. Industries Minister urges garment industry in Tiruppur to focus on technical textiles

The Hindu  

The garment industry in Tiruppur, should focus on technical textiles, said T.N. Inaugurating the renovated building of the Tiruppur Exporters Association, the Minister said the size of the global technical textiles industry was expected to be USD 220 billion by 2030. Participation of the industry was critical for further research and development, he said, adding that the government would also …

Tamil Nadu aims to become a leader in technical textile production, says Minister
2 years, 1 month ago

Tamil Nadu aims to become a leader in technical textile production, says Minister

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu government is taking several measures so that the State becomes a leader in technical textiles, Minister for Textiles and Handlooms R. Gandhi said here on Friday. Inaugurating a two-day joint technology conference of textile research associations, the Minister said the government withdrew the market committee cess on cotton as soon as it came to power and has created …

CM Stalin announces sops for home textiles sector
2 years, 3 months ago

CM Stalin announces sops for home textiles sector

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Chief Minister M K Stalin announced the inclusion of home textiles manufacturing industry in the ‘Thrust Sector’ to provide subsidy for investment made in the sector through the MSME department, thus benefiting thousands of companies and lakhs of workers. Among the 221 MoUs signed in the last 15 months after the DMK government came to power to bring in …

Central govt. wants to create 75 textile hubs across India, says Piyush Goyal
2 years, 5 months ago

Central govt. wants to create 75 textile hubs across India, says Piyush Goyal

The Hindu  

The Central government wants to create 75 textile hubs across the country on the lines of Tiruppur to generate jobs and support higher textile exports, Union Minister of Textiles and Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said in Tiruppur on Sunday. Speaking at an exporters’ meeting, organised by Federation of Indian Export Organisations and Apparel Export Promotion Council, the Minister explained …

Spinning success: One-third of India’s textile business is in Tamil Nadu
2 years, 10 months ago

Spinning success: One-third of India’s textile business is in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

From saris and dhotis to bedspreads and kitchen towels, industries in Tamil Nadu make them all. Boasting at least one-third of the textile business in the country, with 2,032 spinning mills, 5.63 lakh powerlooms, 1.55 lakh handlooms, and nearly 15,000 garment units, Tamil Nadu is regarded as numero uno in textiles and garments. Though cotton production has dwindled over the …

Explained | Will the new Production-Linked Incentive scheme help textile industry?
3 years, 3 months ago

Explained | Will the new Production-Linked Incentive scheme help textile industry?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Ten months after it first approved a Production-Linked Incentive scheme for the textile sector, the Union Cabinet cleared it on September 8, after the Ministry of Textiles incorporated suggestions from the industry. The product lines include 40 in man-made fibre apparel, 14 in man-made fibre fabrics, and 10 technical textile segments/products. Editorial | Catching up: On …

Will ensure further improvement of textile sector: Piyush Goyal
3 years, 5 months ago

Will ensure further improvement of textile sector: Piyush Goyal

Live Mint  

Newly appointed Textile Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday promised that he will ensure improvement of the textile sector and boost exports. Goyal added that the textile sector would play a key role in promoting the brand India worldwide. He met the former textile minister Smiriti Irani and wrote a tweet in Hindi, "Today, I met Smriti Irani. Minister of State …

The high cost of India’s cheap garment exports
3 years, 8 months ago

The high cost of India’s cheap garment exports

Al Jazeera  

Two winters ago, while driving into Delhi at the crack of dawn, I found myself staring at looming soft mountains of candy pink foam rising from the grey surface of the river Yamuna. Unsurprisingly, alarms have been raised about India’s water scarcity around the world, including in a report by the US-based World Resources Institute that ranks it 13th among …

Fashion’s way forward
3 years, 10 months ago

Fashion’s way forward

Hindustan Times  

After the Union Budget was announced, many felt a relief due to its inclination towards Make in India concept and Vocal for Local, two buzz words that have been trending since last year. We can re-look at what can be done locally and invent a strategy of how fashion can be diverse and newer fabrics can be made,” says designer …

Textile Sector Key in Building Self-reliant India, Says PM Modi at International Webinar
4 years, 2 months ago

Textile Sector Key in Building Self-reliant India, Says PM Modi at International Webinar

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the textile sector is key in realising a self-reliant India, and added that his government is particularly focussing on skills upgradation, financial assistance and integrating the sector with latest technology. Addressing an international webinar on textile traditions organised by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, he said Indian textiles are highly valued globally …

It is time to tap potential of handicrafts and textiles
4 years, 6 months ago

It is time to tap potential of handicrafts and textiles

Hindustan Times  

India has an estimated 16 million craftspeople, living mainly in rural India, who are actively involved in some of the most complex textile processes that the world has ever seen. After the coronavirus pandemic, the reality is that the handloom and handcraft sector in India needs a way to survive It was in the 1960s that I discovered the art …

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