No quality audits were performed in the last 70 days to procure PPE coveralls after the production process, and the sudden infusion of stringent inspection protocols has raised serious questions to the approach of HLL and MoHFW.

Making masks, selling on discounts, keeping stock for the next season, making changes in collections, and few more are the steps being taken by various garment manufacturers to clear their WIP and inventories.

Apparel manufacturing industry in India has been hit hard by the global spread of COVID-19 and the nationwide lockdown. However, forward planning is still a weapon for the owners to get back on track and they are using it.

This hiring is a part of the company’s business strategy, as it is now looking at the domestic market in a big way.

What are the CSOs and NGOs doing to support the poor workers in manufacturing destinations who are facing order cancellations and payment delays?

Today when the garment workers need NGOs and labour associations the most, many are missing from action!

Majority of workers in the Indian apparel industry are migratory, and while most of them are already back to their villages, rest will go once the public transport becomes operational again.

Indian apparel manufacturing industry is not only making masks, but also complete PPE sets including body coveralls, gloves, shoe covers, etc. And this is proving to be a commercially viable product category and a saviour in this time of cr

In Tirupur, there is labour scarcity and that too despite export and domestic market not doing well.