Yaa A Birds Midpoint Persuasion On - Karur Habitation Textiles Industry
Friday 14 December 2018
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A Birds Eye View on - Karur Home Textiles Industry
R.S.BALAKUMAR
Associate Professor (SFDA)
Hindustan University, Chennai
Cell: +91-9283182955
Email: rsbalakumar1953@gmail.com
Karur inward Tamil Nadu province has popular off identical amongst handloom too mightiness loom "made-ups" products. Made-ups are to a greater extent than essential to all the human-beings living inward the world. Handloom exports from Karur began on an unassertive scale amongst simply meagre divulge of exporters inward the twelvemonth roughly 1975.
Today Karur has thousands of exporters too besides their products are beingness exported to the International leading chain stores. Due to this salubrious atmosphere Republic of Republic of India is enormously gaining its unusual telephone commutation inward recent period.
Karur, ane of the oldest towns inward Tamil Nadu, has played a meaning role inward the history too civilization of Tamils. Its history dates dorsum over 2000 years, too was a flourishing trading centre inward the early on Sangam days. It was ruled past times the Cheras, Gangas, Cholas, Vijayanagara Nayaks, Mysore too British successively.
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Hand-woven home textile products are real much attracted the unusual buyers. Agreeing to the 2011 census, Karur municipality had a population of 10 lakh, too a literacy charge per unit of measurement of 78 per cent against the Indian national average of 59.5 per cent
The domicile textiles of Karur tin broadly live classified into 5 groups:
- bed linen,
- kitchen linen,
- toilet linen,
- table linen too
- wall hangings.
On the world-wide textiles atlas, Karur has popular off identical amongst handloom "made-ups" similar Tirupur inward Tamil Nadu province is recognized for all types of knitted too hosiery products. Handloom exports from Karur began on a unassertive scale amongst simply fifteen exporters inward 1975, too today Karur has thousands of exporters too products are supplied to world's leading chain stores are listed below:
1.Wal-Mart, 2.Target, 3.IKEA, 4.JC Penny, 5.Ahlens, 6.Metro, 7.Carrefour, etc. Today, the Karur Textiles Manufacturers Exporter Association has a membership base of operations of nearly 143.
Almost 600-700 small-medium too micro enterprises are involved inward the textile export professional. Most of these elements are family-oriented initiatives too cause got manifestation inward the entire value chain of the fabrication processes. By too huge, these are spread inward a xl km bridge of Karur.
The Karur Textile Park Limited (KTPL) projection has been executed nether the Scheme for Integrated Textiles Park (SITP) of the Indian Ministry of Textiles. This is ane of the 10 textile parks that cause got been approved for the province of Tamil Nadu. The primary activeness inward KTPL is weaving of fabrics for domicile textiles made-ups.
KTPL is located close Manalmedu (Thalapatti too Puthampur villages) which is nigh 12 km from Karur town, too is blow-outover thezone of nearly 110 acres.
The textile commons was inaugurated during the twelvemonth 2011, amongst a funding of Rs xl crore from the Union authorities too Rs ix crore from the province government. The accepted projection cost is Rs 116.10 crore, but the authentic amount spent for this system thus far has been Rs 135 crore.
Separately from this, aventure of Rs 100 crore has been made past times members towards mechanism inward their units. Hence, the total investment made inward the commons comes nearly Rs 235 crore.
Karur Textile Park is unique equally the next activities are assumed inward the site itself, too no such procedures are permitted out inward parks elsewhere inward the country, equally mentioned below:
1.yarn procurement; 2.hank to cone winding too 3.cone to cone winding; 4.warping; 5.weaving; 6.fabric checking; 7.cutting; 8.sewing; 9.folding too 10.packing for export. Contracts are awarded through formal tender procedures, too all the industrial plant are completed inward full.
The predictable direct job for KTPL is expected to live 3,000-5,000, too indirect job is for nigh 10,000 people. The villagers within a 25 kmcircle are anticipated to wages from this chance. Presently, nigh 1,750 workers are straight workingin the units situated inward the textile park.
Ten-steps towards succeeding potential:
- Requirement of trained manpower keeping tally to empower existing unskilled, semi-skilled manpower.
- Elimination of blockages inward creating domicile textile industries, which ask a textile processing commons amongst the attention of authorities agencies.
- Continuous electric-power provide to live provided.
- Industry-friendly too merchandisable textile manufacture policy.
- Simple infrastructure to live improved at cluster level.
- Enlightening town infrastructure along amongst decent H2O supply, cleanliness, sustainable route facilities, increased rails connectivity, etc.
- Sinkingintricate authorities agreements.
- Availability of raw materials inward normal cost / variations to live controlled at to the lowest degree for the sector.
- Control inward forcemoneys through a touchstone machinery.
- Value add-on to the prevailing marketable domicile furnishing products.
The mutual certifications include the next 12 certifications are required.
- SA 8000 - Social Accountability System
- ISO 9001 - Quality Management System(Qms)
- ISO14001 - Environment Management System(Ems)
- OHSAS 18001 - Occupational Health & Safety Assessment Series
- OEKO TEX 100
- C-TPAT / GSV - Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism
- ORGANIC - Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)
- ORGANIC - OE Organic Exchange
- COC - Code of Conduct of the respective Buyers
- Fair Trade
- Reach
- BSCI
- Around volition live 35 mill buildings inward KTPL. These 35 units volition operate hither everlastingly inward add-on to their existing primary factories inward Karur, thus equally to switch on to a greater extent than orders. Three types of mill buildings are beingness constructed.
- An exclusive Admin Block to handgrip the operations of the Park.
- In the Facility Building area, exterior the commons chemical compound wall, at that topographic point would live the next facilities:
- Canara Bank branch amongst ATM facility .(functional since the twelvemonth 2011);
- Sewage Treatment Plant has been fitted too working to care for sewage waste product from units within the park.
- Overhead tank amongst 1 lakh litre capacity sump has been constructed too is inward exercise for the H2O necessity of the whole park;
- A rainwater puddle has been dug upward for rainwater harvesting.
- Other accommodations areplanned to seat inward due course.
- The constructions of the buildings cause got been completed.
- The highpoint of KTPL is that people from nearby villages tin avail of these amenities, which tin besides live used past times the mobile population on NH-7 since the Park is situated on the Karur-Madurai Highway.
- The H2O provide has been organized from Kodaiyur, off Amravati River, too pipelines cause got been seat for the provide of H2O to split units.
- A lot of trees cause got been established within the campus.
- The primary roads are nearly30 metre broad too sub-roads are nearly xx metre wide. All roads cause got been laid.
- Rainwater drainage too sewage lines cause got been seat properly too are inward practise.
- KTPL has obtained its ain Electricity Board transformers too handed over to Tamil nadu Electricity Board. The cost of LT occupation cable too the UG cable cause got been accepted past times Karur Textile Park Ltd.(KTPL)
- More job opportunities are available inward the Karur domicile textiles industries. Due to this province of affairs employees are gaining monetary benefits too living happily amongst their household unit of measurement members.