'Indian Textile & Clothing in
Post-Quota World: A global comparative perspective'
The first ever International Conference on "Steering
Mature Business: A Leadership Challenge to Textile Industry" held on
October 3rd and 4th in Ahmedabad, in the once so called Manchester of the East. There were over 200 plus industry leaders and stakeholders from
the textile industry present on the occasion. The conference has been organised
by Fibre2fashion, the leading global B2B
website for the textile, apparel and fashion industry in association with
Ahmedabad Management Association; a pioneer in the management movement.
Mr Samar Verma, from IDRC-CDRC, Canada shared his views on 'Indian
textiles and apparel in post quota period from a global comparative perspective'.
His presentation included statistical data pertaining to the Indian textile
sector along with an overview of the global textile and apparel industry.
He was concerned over the fact that, between 1991 and 2008,
IT & ITES industry has grown from $500 million to $61 billion in India, 120
times in less than two decades and in the same period, auto industry grew from
2 million vehicles to 11 million vehicles, telecom from 1 billion to 25 billion
in size, however, T&C industry grew from $17 billion to just $55 billion
and its share in Indias total exports declined from 28 period to 11 percent
over the same period.
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