China provides stability in price and quality. With the union governments Quality Control Orders that is gone, it’s a fresh problem for the textile industry.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
When father was posted to Baroda, Surat textile manufacturers told him with a smile, Surat ka kapda lena nahin. Lena toh dhona nahin. Aur dhona toh phir rona nahin. Trust quality has improved in the intervening half century.
When father was posted to Baroda, Surat textile manufacturers told him with a smile, Surat ka kapda lena nahin. Lena toh dhona nahin. Aur dhona toh phir rona nahin. Trust quality has improved in the intervening half century.
Socialist Modi murdabad. Free market zindabad.