Members of Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) met Ministers and government officials of the State recently, and presented their suggestions on strengthening the State’s manufacturing ecosystem, and how that can help us capture the global textile market.
Prabhu Dhamodharan, Convenor and Saravanan, Board Member, ITF met Thangam Thennarasu, Minister for Industries and R. Gandhi, Minister for Handlooms & Textiles and also conveyed to them how huge employment opportunities in Tamil Nadu can develop if additional exports are made in textile sector.
A press-release from ITF conveyed that the State can work out a roadmap to capitalize the opportunity emerging with MITRA park scheme by creating an integrated and plug & play Apparel Park. This will bring the much needed thrust to our efforts to increase exports.
“To facilitate the SME apparel and home textiles sector to expand, we can pick 10 to 15 small towns with good workforce availability and create small plug and play infra for stitching facilities.”
“The State needs to devise a special theme to brand TN 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.”
“We can conceptualize 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.”
As TN and Japan have a good trade relationship, in connection with our market diversification efforts, TN textile sector needs to work with Japan buyers. In this regard, TN Govt. can facilitate one Working Group with 50 of our Apparel companies, to work Exclusively with Japanese Apparel Market.
The Minister appreciated the suggestions made by ITF and also shared their plans to propel Manufacturing sector further.