Indian Texpreneur Federation (ITF), a leading trade body of Tamil Nadu, has presented 5 point suggestions to State Government for growth of state’s textile sector.
Team ITF met R. Gandhi, Minister for Handlooms & Textiles, Thangam Thennarasu, Minister for Industries and other senior secretary level officials and presented the same.
These suggestions included…
- To build scale and competitiveness and to enable the medium-sized companies to expand, Tamil Nadu can work out a roadmap to capitalise the opportunity emerging with MITRA park scheme by creating an integrated and plug-&-play apparel park. This will bring the much-needed thrust to efforts to increase exports.
- To facilitate the SME apparel and home textiles sector to expand, state can pick 10 to 15 small towns with good workforce availability and create small plug-and-play infra for stitching facilities. This will spread the sector in various parts of state and help to avoid overcrowding in few clusters. This will also create new employment in multiple small towns.
- Global buyers demand more of a sustainability component in sourcing; and Tamil Nadu’s textile sector already follows world class standards in sustainable manufacturing. The state needs to devise a special theme to brand Tamil Nadu’s textile and apparel sector as most sustainable destination for fashion sourcing. This will also help the sector to capture the market share in value-added products.
- Tamil Nadu and Japan have a good trade relationship. As part of market diversification efforts, the state’s textile sector needs to work with Japan buyers. In this regard, the State Government can facilitate one working group with 50 apparel companies, to work exclusively with Japanese apparel market.
- We can conceptualise a scheme for medium and large companies to run Technical Institutes within the campus with University Certifications. This will help the sector in attracting talent; and in the process, we can develop skilled workforce for the sector.