Workers from the northern States, who were employed at the garment export units in Tirupur and went home in the last six months due to slowdown in orders, are returning to work, said Kumar Duraiswamy, joint secretary of the Tirupur Exporters Association.
Based on preliminary data, India exported US $ 10 billion worth of clothing between April and December 2023, with US $ 4.9 billion of that value being knitwear. While Tirupur accounts for 50 per cent of knitwear exports, the remaining 50 per cent are split across West Bengal, Bengaluru, Delhi, and the surrounding regions. Many migrant workers returned home when Tirupur’s exports decreased, which had an impact on their pay and work schedules. A few of them started working at the garment factories in Delhi and the surrounding areas.
But because the pay is better in Tirupur, these labourers stayed in contact with the ones who continued working in Tirupur.
In the global market, following the COVID pandemic, purchasers’ ports and warehouses held massive inventories for almost a year. However, during the last three months, as retail sales increased, particularly for smaller merchants, the inventory began to decline. Orders were now beginning to flow again in Tirupur, and in a few months the situation was predicted to fully recover. He said that as a result, labourers were going back to Tirupur.
The cheap clothing imports from Bangladesh remained one of Tirupur’s biggest problems. The Indian market was being oversupplied with fabric from China and other south-east Asian nations, which had an impact on the entire supply chain. He stated that the government ought to deal with this matter as soon as possible.
