May, 2016

In August 2013, Team StitchWorld unearthed Gandhi Nagar – a colony in East Delhi – as the hotbed of manufacturing jeans for the domestic market. Today, the real estate has grown prohibitively expensive to support manufacturing in the area, and the production bases have shifted to a nearby locality – Kanti Nagar. In a visit to the hub, Team SW catches the pulse of the hub. In India, where apparel manufacturing has always been a male dominated domain, although ironically women operators are a preferred lot, few women have broken free of the gender stereotype and are successfully manning the production floor. StitchWorld talked to three such women in the article ‘Women who broke gender stereotypes in the Apparel Manufacturing Industry’. After the series on whether HR is becoming more important than Technology, which received tremendous response from our readers, StitchWorld initiated a new debate – ‘Are we Overdoing Welfare at the Cost of Human Development? Another ‘must read’ is from our industry expert Anand Deshpande, Founder and CEO – Admaa Consulting, who talks about ‘Shopfloor Control in Apparel Production’.