2. Full Article

2.1 Scope of the Authors Study

Table 1: Dyehouse Audits by Author by Country

It leads to some very interesting observations; which defy any text book or theoretical treatise. The study, when taken as a whole, reflects on what real people are doing in a real world.

The lessons are there to be learned.

The dangers are there for all to see.

2.2.       Background

The current state of the Indian Textile Industry has been reviewed from within by both the Finance Ministry of the Government (Ref 2) and the Indian Cotton Mills Federation (Ref 3). This was reported by Dr Sanjay Gupta (Ref 1).

The main points from these internal analyses will be summarised in this paper.

The overriding conclusion from both sources is that there is a clearly defined need for the Industry as a whole to improve Productivity; but particularly so within the wet processing sector (ie. within the dyehouse).

2.3 The Government View

During the last Olympic games, Mr P. Chidamabaram (Ref 2), then the Union Finance Minister for the Indian government, advised the Indian Textile Industry to adopt the Olympic Games Motto and become :