Textile industry facing shortage of labour: Texpreneurs Assn

The textile industry in the region at any given time requires three lakh to five lakh workers, a member of Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) said today.
The industry in and around Coimbatore, Tirupur, Karur and part of Bengaluru was facing shortage of labour, particularly skilled workers, ITF board member Srihari Balakrishnan said.
He was speaking at a function organised to distribute certificates and appointment orders in ITF member mills trained under Skill Development Programme.
Balakrishnan further said ITF has organised a job mela where 1,000 trained candidates were given certificates and 170 received appointment orders.
Giving details of the scheme under Prime Minister Kaushal Vikas Yojna, ITF convenor Prabhu Dhamodaran said in the pilot phase the member-mills have skill-trained 18,500 workers and for the second, it has signed an MoU with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to train and employ 50,000 candidates.

Tirupur Exporters' Association president Raja M Shanmugham said there was a need to tap the real potential of the textile industry in India, which has only four per cent share in the international market.