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ITF's 5 points to boost Indian textile sector's growth in Tamil Nadu

12 Jul '21

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L-R: Saravanan, Board Member, ITF; Prabhu Dhamodharan, Convenor, ITF; and R Gandhi, Minister for Handlooms & Textiles, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Pic: ITF

The Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) has suggested five points to boost the growth of the textile sector in Tamil Nadu that include enabling small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to expand, devising a special theme to brand textile and apparel from the state as the most sustainable destination for fashion sourcing and exploring the Japanese market.

An ITF delegation recently met the state’s textile and industry ministers in Chennai.

The state can work out a road map to capitalise the opportunity emerging from the central government’s Mega Investment Textiles Parks (MITRA) scheme by creating an integrated and plug-and-play apparel park, it suggested.

Ten to 15 small towns with good workforce availability may be picked up and infrastructure can be created for stitching facilities. This will spread the sector and help avoid overcrowding in a few clusters apart from generating employment in small towns.

Cultivating a sustainable brand for textile-apparel from the state will help the sector capture the market share in value-added products as well, it said.

The state government can facilitate a working group with 50 of apparel companies to work exclusively with the Japanese apparel market, ITF suggested.

A scheme for medium and large companies can be conceptualised to run technical institutes within the campus with university certifications. This will help the sector in attracting talent, and in the process, a skilled workforce for the sector can be developed, the federation added.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)

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