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India: The challenging life of labourers with rays of hope

Around 45 million workers are employed in the garment and textile industry in India. Majority among them are women, who spend around eight hours a day, six days a week inside one of the garment factories, constantly breaking their necks and backs over a sewing machine. But their hardships don’t end with this tedious and monotonous job since they...

Fashion

New markets manna for Asian industry

There sure is a bright side to the economic slowdown at least for the Asian textiles and apparels industry. For manufacturers in India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan et al, the slowdown has not really meant slowing down of business completely. Indeed sales have been sluggish and demand not up to the mark at least from their traditional markets of...

Fashion

Eurozone crisis affects Indian apparel exports

Slowdown woes continue to affect the Eurozone and the crisis has negatively hit apparel exports the most. While the US is showing marginal recovery, orders from Europe have gone down significantly. Orders from Italy and Spain have almost become nil and could reduce India’s total apparel exports by 15 per cent. Indian textile exports are...

Design

Indian apparel exporters to stop child labour

After global apparel brands stopped sourcing from Indian apparel exporters for engaging child labour, the industry has decided to adopt zero tolerance to child labour and cleanse the supply chain. Though the extensive auditing of the supply chain will add an additional cost of 5 per cent, but it will at least keep India off trade barriers owing...