Export garment units in Erode district require 3,000 tailors
Hindu, India –
R. Sundaram
Bulk orders not executed for want of enough staff
ERODE: Erode Textile Readymade Garments Exporters Association will start a Common Facility Centre (CFC) in Erode to help readymade woven garment exporters.
Woven readymade garments worth Rs 250 crore are exported from Erode every year.
Exporters here get orders worth about Rs 1,000 crore annually. But they cannot execute the orders owing to paucity of tailors. Erode Textile Readymade Garments Exporters Association secretary S. Sivanandhan told The Hindu : “Within two years, the readymade garment industry in Erode has made rapid developments and till 2004 we used to export readymade goods worth only Rs 100 crore. We now execute orders worth Rs 250 crore. But we cannot meet bulk orders owing to manpower shortage.”
The Association is providing free training in tailoring and garment industry-oriented programmes to unemployed men and women.
Training
However,after getting training they leave Erode for greener pastures.
Some readymade garment manufacturers get heavy orders but for want of enough machinery execution of the orders is delayed. The CFC to be set up at a cost of Rs 1.25 crorewill help the readymade garment manufacturers avoid delays.
Mr Sivanandhan said as on date 3,000 tailors were required and many readymade garment manufacturers were now offering attractive salaries, provident fund, daily allowance and other facilities. Collector T. Udhaychandran has been requested to depute SHG members for tailoring training. The Association will participate in the buyer-seller meet to be held in Tirupur in May.
