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Which loom machines are used to weave cotton fabric?

Types of Weaving Machines Used in the Cotton Fabric Production

Air Jet Looms – Air jet looms are high-speed weaving machines used to make cotton yarn. Compressed air propels the weft yarn through the warp yarn, producing high-quality fabric. It is best suited to lightweight cotton fabrics like muslin and voile.

Rapier Looms – Rapier looms are fast and efficient weaving machines using a flexible metal device that picks up weft yarn from one side and carries it across to the other. It is suitable for weaving a wide range of cotton fabrics, including terry cloth and corduroy.

Shuttle looms – Shuttle looms are traditional weaving machines that use a shuttle to carry the weft yarn through the warp yarns. They are best suited for weaving heavyweight cotton fabrics, such as twill and drill, and are still used today for certain types of cotton material production.

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Top 10 Solar Companies in India, 2022

India is one of the top ten countries in the world to utilize solar power with full enthusiasm. The country has been making rapid strides towards alternative sources of energy like wind and solar and has set up an aggressive renewable energy installation target of 175 GW by 2022.

1. Loom Solar: Loom Solar Pvt. Ltd. is a start-up, a manufacturer of mono perc solar panels and lithium batteries based out of Faridabad, Haryana having a manufacturing capacity of 100 MW. It is an ISO 9001–2015 certified company and recognized startup by Govt. of India. The company which started in 2018 has become one of the fastest-growing solar panel manufacturers in India because of the wide range of solar panels from 10 watts to 450 watts super high-efficiency panels.

2. Tata Power Solar Systems

This solar power company remains an eminent leader in manufacturing some of the best solar panels in India The company boasts a stronghold on residential rooftop solar units and has shipped about 1.4 GW of solar modules worldwide over the past 20 years.

3. Vikram Solar

Serving over six continents, Vikram Solar is one the largest solar energy companies providing mono and bifacial solar panel modules. They have installed & commissioned over 1,355 MW of solar projects across India. They have over 1 GW solar panel manufacturing capacity and a 10 kW floating solar plant in Kolkata.

4. Adani Solar

A subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Ltd., Adani Solar belongs to the 15 largest utility solar power developers worldwide. They manufacture solar cells and modules with 1.5 GW+ of cell and module capacity at Mundra, Gujarat. Adani solar is one of the largest solar panels installers in India.

5. Microtek Solar Solutions

They provide a wide range of solar products for retail and commercial users. Microtek Solar products are manufactured with the most recent solar technologies to deliver the best results. Their products are Photo Voltaic Modules, Power Conditioning Units, Solar Management Units, and Solar combo packages.

6.RenewSys Solar

They are an integrated manufacturer of solar modules and key components like solar PV cells, black sheets, and encapsulants. They have two manufacturing units in India, supplying over 40 nations worldwide.

7. Icomm Tele Ltd

Founded in 1989, the company has emerged as a prime business in terms of profits and new utilization methods. Their business is spread across neighboring countries, the Middle East, and Africa. They not only focus on the aim set by the government but also pay attention to our environment and its condition. They understand their responsibility of keeping the environment clean and green very well.

8. Waaree Energies Ltd

Waaree Energies Ltd., founded in 1989, is a Mumbai-based company having a significant presence of over 360+ locations in India and 68 foreign countries and has an experience of over 32 years in the field. With its magnificent 2 GW module manufacturing unit at Surat, it is one of the leading solar panel manufacturers in India.

They offer EPC services, project development, solar water pumps, solar rooftop solutions, independent powerhouses, and much more.

9. Moser Baer Solar Ltd

This Delhi-based energy-focused organization provides solar-powered PV and EPC solutions. Their robust R&D department enables them to manufacture one of the best solar panels in India with two times magnified standard warranty.

10. EMMVEE

Starting in 1992, the company has grown up to be the largest manufacturer of solar water heating systems across Asia. They have also installed and commissioned solar PV projects 14 MW in North Germany, 13 MW rooftop, and 140 + MW in India.

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Empire of Cotton: A Gloss

So I got Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert last year, and I finally started reading it after finishing The Fifth Season earlier this week and, while I’m not far into it yet, there’s just so much important stuff in here that needs to be understood and there’s this one particular section which I think really encapsulates that with its sheer Density of plain-spoken busting of capitalist myths, but it’s a bit long, so I’m just going to share it below the cut, and say my piece:

“...For decades, representatives of the chartered European East India companies had complained about the ability of Indian weavers to sell their goods to competing European companies, competing Indian banias, traders from other regions of the world, or even to private European merchants who operated independently of the companies, creating competition that raised prices. Profitability could be increased only if the Europeans could force weavers to work for their respective companies alone. Monopolizing the market became the way to drive down weavers’ incomes and drive up the selling price of particular goods.”

So just keeping score, according to these cotton merchants, the actual “founders” of global capitalism let us not forget: Open Markets, Competition, and Free Labor = Bad; Monopolies and Compelled Labor = Good. So much for the foundations of Capitalism.

“European traders were helped in securing cotton cloth in the quantity and quality they needed, and at the price they desired, because their business practices were reinforced with political control of increasingly extensive Indian territories. They came not just as traders, but increasingly as rulers. By the 1730s, the Dhaka factory, for example, hosted a contingent of military personnel and arms to protect the company’s interests. Most dramatically, by 1765 the British East India Company---a group of merchants---ruled Bengal, and in the decades thereafter expanded its control over other South Asian territories. Such territorial dreams were furthered by British merchants’ increasing investment in the raw cotton trade between India and China by the late eighteenth century, which made them hope for the integration of western Indian cotton tracts into East India Company territories as well. This assertion of private political power by a state-chartered company over distant territories was a revolutionary reconceptualization of economic might. States shared sovereignty with private entrepreneurs.”

Two Points: 1)Local states(many of them aristocratic private states of their own) lacked the strength or integrity(military, economic, and institutional), and the UK government lacked the interest, to resist or restrain the East India Company, and so it came to dominate, it established its own Private State, and the “British Empire” eventually rose from this process of private conquests eventually ceded to an initially quiescent, though tacitly supportive, central government. Private States thrive where Public States are weak. 2)The EIC could never have succeeded at this without the tacit approval of the UK central government, expressed in; allowing its inactive soldiers, sailors, and ships to sell themselves as mercenaries to the EIC; allowing its armories to sell arms and ammunition to the EIC; allowing the EIC to use its charter to do things which its charter did not authorize, such as selling shares(which means issuing debt; the two are the same thing on a balance-sheet) to generate funds to then bribe local polities, either to fight for the Company, or “just” to corrupt local governance. A possible larger takeaway: Wealth sickens societies as much as it does individuals.

“Among many other things, this new combination of economic and political power enabled European merchants to gain greater control over textile manufacturing, especially by increasing control over weavers. Along the Coromandel coast the influential Indian merchants who acted as brokers between Indian weavers and European exporters increasingly were replaced by agents who were under much greater control of the European companies already in the seventeenth century. In Surat, which, like Bengal, would fall under company rule in 1765, the Board of Trade of the governor-general expressed in 1795 its dissatisfaction with

“the system in practice hitherto of having a Contractor who has not himself any immediate connection with the manufacturers or weavers, but engages in subordinate contracts with a large number of Native Merchants of little property or probity and though bound in responsibility, are not competent to pay a penalty if forfeited, and than in fact the goods never came into their possession, and apprehend that the difficulties now existing, will not be removed but with its abolition or very material alteration”

Removing the Indian middlemen promised foreign merchants better control over production and the ability to secure greater quantities of piece goods. To that end, the East India Company tried to bypass independent Indian banias who had historically connected them to the weavers by giving that responsibility to Indian “agents” whom they put on their payroll. The Board of Trade in London instructed the governor-general in great detail how to recast the system of purchasing cotton cloth, hoping thereby to “recover to the Company that genuine knowledge of the business,” and thus acquire more cloth at cheaper prices by implementing the “grand Fundamental principle of the Agency System.”

So here we see that private EIC state in South Asia dictating, through its “Board of Trade”(on-the-nose, I know, but reality’s writers have never been all that subtle), that India’s natural level of cotton production(how much cotton its growers&weavers choose to make at the price on offer) and natural balance of trade re: cotton(how India’s merchants choose to distribute that production to buyers based on the prices they offer) is neither high enough nor enough in the favor of British Industry(meaning: “willing to sell cotton and cotton-products to the EIC at artificially below-market prices”). Here is that private state of the East India Company(chartered by the UK central gov as all corporations are chartered by their governments. Because they are legal creations) stating its desire to force the people of India to act contrary to how they choose to act through law and regulation, solely because it would increase the profits of the East India Company in the cotton trade, and colluding with the central government back in England on how to do so(based, in part, on their similar promotion/subjection of the weaving trades in unguilded Lancashire). Tell me again how Capitalism loves Free Markets and Choice, and hates Bureaucratic “Red-Tape”.

“Through its Indian agents the company now made direct advances to weavers, something the British had not done in earlier years, which was greatly aided by territorial control and the attendant political authority. While weavers had always depended on credit, the novel insertion of Europeans into these credit networks along with the efforts of European merchants to monopolize economic control of particular parts of India made them ever more dependent on the company. Already by the middle of the eighteenth century, European companies sent these agents deep into the manufacturing centers in the countryside near Dhaka, agents who increasingly set the terms of production and thus succeeded in lowering prices. In the 1790s the East India Company even encouraged weavers to relocate to Bombay and produce cloth there---all with the goal of being able to supervise them better “without being extorted by the servants of the Rajah of Travacone”.”

First: Yes, modern Capitalism did not invent credit[1]. Second, India’s cotton industry initially worked on a “putting-out system”(the book deals with this in greater detail; this was the basic system for cotton production everywhere) and European capitalists sought to dismantle this system(as opposed to supporting its development, as in Lancashire. Again; the book deals with this in greater depth) explicitly because they did not control it, Indians did, and so could not use it to abuse labor. Third, here we see how credit and materials-access can be used to control people and restrict their choices, especially when those extending credit(specifically to access materials) also dictate your access to customers[2]. Fourth, considering how all of this was about controlling the native cotton industry of India and stealing from India producers and merchants its profits: Tell me again how India was an “Underdeveloped”, “Uncivilized”, place and culture, “Unimproved by Science or Art” that needed “The White Christian Man” to save it from its own “Benighted Backwardsness”.

“The encroachment of British power on the subcontinent meant that weavers increasingly lost their ability to set prices for cloth. According to the historian Sinnappah Arasaratnam “they could not produce for any customer they chose; they had to accept part of their payment in cotton yarn; they were subject to strict supervision of the process of manufacture by the Company’s servants who were located in the village.” Weavers were now often compelled to take advances from particular merchants...

...To further their goal, the company now employed its coercive powers toward the weavers directly. The company hired large numbers of Indians to supervise and implement new rules and regulations, in effect bureaucratizing the cloth market. Extensive new regulations attached weavers legally to the company, making them unable to sell their cloth on the open market. Company agents now inspected cloth on the loom, and endeavored to ensure that the cloth was, as promised, sold to the company. A new system of taxation penalized those weavers who produced for others.

The company also increasingly resorted to violence, including corporal punishment. When a company agent complained that a weaver was working illegally for a private merchant, “the company’s Gumashta seized him and his son, flogged him severely, painted his face black and white, tied his hands behind his back and marched him through the town escorted by seapoys [sic] [Indian soldiers in the employ of the English], announcing ‘any weaver found working for a private merchant should receive similar punishment’.” Such policies produced their intended results: Indian weavers’ income fell. In the late seventeenth century, up to one-third of the price of cloth might have gone to a weaver. By the late eighteenth century, according to historian Om Prakesh, the producer’s share had fallen to about 6 percent... By 1795, the company itslef observed an “unprecedented mortality among the Weavers”.”

And all of this for what? To alienate the weavers and spinners of India from their labor and transform the compensation they ask for their labor and materiel from a Price to a “cost of production”. To steal from them the product and value of their own work through brutality, humiliation, injustice, and illiberty; to deny them the natural right to decide, or even so much as negotiate, the worth of their work, and who they will share, give, or sell it to. And for no reason other than the stuffing of the Company-men’s own greedy pockets.

To call this “Capitalism” makes it more complicated that it really is. It asserts a theoretical and philosophical basis it doesn’t really have, and grants it a practical rigor it doesn’t really deserve. It’s just powerful people doing whatever they can to make themselves richer. It’s just amoral, overriding greed. “Capitalists” don’t care about free markets or piracy or competition or contracts or Rights or “the invisible hand” or any of the rest of their claimed values and, as any history of “Capitalism” shows, they never did. It’s always just been about getting more however they can, and no matter how much suffering they inflicted to accomplish it. It’s always just been about building themselves up by grinding other people down.

[1]though I’d argue this less means credit predates capitalism than that capitalism is a much, much older system than we tend to think of it as. Or maybe that capitalism is rooted in and grew out of far older behaviors and mindsets which tend to get ignored in this discussion, depending on how you prefer to look at it. Like: reciprocity, and what you might call “delayed reciprocity”, has been a part of human cultures since, very likely, before they were human; the recontextualizing of that into commercial/financial terms as “debt” and “credit” is, to me, a sort of “capitalification” of reciprocity, morality, and social existence. Debt: The First 5000 Years was a useful book to me on this subject.

[2]This seems Quite Relevant to the modern USian question of Net Neutrality which: Tell me again-again how Capitalism loves Free Markets and Choice, and hates Bureaucratic “Red-Tape”.

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Indian fabric & Handicrafts market is the biggest employment generator after agri

Indian textile & Handicrafts market constitutes an essential section of the Indian economy as it is one of the biggest employment generators after farming. The field utilizes regarding 7 million individuals directly and also indirectly, which consist of a lot of women as well as individuals belonging to the weak sections of the culture, claimed Mr Tamta, Minister of State for Textiles. Handlooms & Handicraft and females, both the terms have their individual identity and also the fruitful amalgamation of both provides an extra purposeful identification. These industries are a major income source for country areas generally and for country ladies particularly. Though a a great deal of female labor force, both city and also tribal, from all areas of the culture are included in proper returns for their efforts, claimed Mr. Tamta. The joint research released by ASSOCHAM-Resurgent on 'Women in Textiles & Handicrafts Industry' exposes that the marketplace size of India's fabric market is expected to touch $250 billion in the following two years from the current level of $150 billion. The fabric industry in India represent 10% of the country's manufacturing production, 5% of India's GDP, and also 13% of India's exports earnings. Textile and garments market is the 2nd largest work service provider in the country using nearly 51 million individuals straight and 68 million people indirectly in 2015-16, adds the study. Demonetisation as well as the change to GST have hit smaller players hard. The variety of workers influenced because of closure of cotton as well as synthetic fiber textile devices (the bigger units that comprise the non-SSI segment of the sector) during 2016-17 was 4,356 on account of the closure of 18 systems, according to official Textile Ministry data on non-SSI systems. During the previous two years, the numbers were 7,938 employees impacted by the closure of 27 systems in 2015-16 and 5,384 employees influenced from the closure of 21 units in 2014-15, taking the cumulative number to over 17,600 employees impacted by the closure of 67 units in the last three years. The GST rollout has even more hit SME players in textile hubs such as Surat, Bhiwadi and Ichalkaranji. Capital products firms are battling as a lot of the downstream markets are saddled with excess ability and reduced need. It is approximated that out of the overall variety of individuals used in Handlooms, Handicrafts, and also Sericulture, regarding 50% are women. There are more women in the home market than in the signed up little scale or cottage units. In the ordered market the percentage of females employees is exceptionally reduced, with the exception being garmenting. Efforts are being made to restore magnificence of home based standard sectors like handlooms, handicrafts, jute and wool via an incorporated approach covering entire worth chain. To provide support to textile produces and farmers of basic materials, the government has actually been supplying rewards like minimum assistance price to cotton farmers, upgrading the technology for handloom weavers as well as giving centres for trade assistance. The fabrics as well as garments market is just one of the largest work generators in the nation. India has about 2 million power impends making around 20 billion meters of fabric, highlighted the research study. The power looms field make up around 60 percent of the complete textiles market. The sector is mostly unorganized with many gamers having rarely 10-20 looms and also weaving on an ordinary around 1,000 meters of towel per loom per month, depending on top quality of cloth and impend made use of to make. Many run their looms on job-work basis and also numerous purchase thread as well as manufacture fabric. These devices are spread out across Bhiwandi, Surat, Ichalkaranji, Erode, Bhilwara, among others big centres where power impends industry is operating. They are frequently targets of sex inequality as it is ingrained deep in our culture as well as additionally represents our social-political framework. Ladies have actually embarked on a new trip to find and also unravel their skills through their dedication as well as hard job in spite of being bound with household obstacles and also social disadvantages. There are many organizations who have actually pledged to sustain the standard needs and also equip aboriginal women to expand their opportunities. The sole intention of these companies is to supply the ladies access to necessary education, health and wellness treatment, employment and a social standing. These susceptible and also dependent women are trained mostly in the textile and also weaving sector to make them independent and economically encouraged.

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Surat’s man-made fabric sector to stay closed till May 3

While some industries in south Gujarat may resume manufacturing activities from today with the central government offering partial relaxation, man-made fabric (MMF) units in Surat will continue to remain under lockodown till May 3. The power loom weaving and textile processing units located in the city’s outskirts have decided to stay closed till May 3.The reason for the decision is that textile markets, key component in the entire value chain, are located in the coronavirus hotspot areas, including Ring Road, Salabatpura, Saroli and Sahara Darwaja, and won’t get permission to start operations soon.Out of the total 6.5 lakh power loom machines in the city, about 3.5 lakh are installed outside the city limits at Palsana, Kadodara, Sachin, Kim-Pipodara, Sayan and Laskana. Even the majority of the textile processing units are in the outskirts like Palsana, Sachin and Jolva.None of the weaving or textile processing units have come forward with the application to the district administration to resume manufacturing activity from April 20, according to a report in a top Indian newspaper.Migrant workers want to go back to their native places and are no mood to work. Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS) While some industries in south Gujarat may resume manufacturing activities from today with the central government offering partial relaxation, man-made fabric (MMF) units in Surat will continue to remain under lockodown till May 3. The power loom weaving and textile processing units located in the city’s outskirts have decided to stay closed till May 3. Source link

source https://www.kadobeclothing.store/surats-man-made-fabric-sector-to-stay-closed-till-may-3/

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Types of wholesale garment options available in Surat

Surat has the largest textile hub in Asia. Surat Textile Market is 50 years old. A small city located in Gujarat offers a lot of garment options. The price is very low and affordable. People from metro cities come to visit Surat city only because of the large market it has. Surat Textile Market notices a large number of manufacturers and wholesalers who give various offers.

 It is called the Silk City of India. Many mills of cotton and other fabric materials run on a daily basis. Surely the competition for the businessmen is high in the textile area. Surat Zari Craft is also famous, and it is also known for man-made cloths. Surat has approx.381 dying mills and 41000 power loom units.

 There are more than 800 wholesalers in Surat. The Surti dress materials are also exported in many places and can be found anywhere in India. It maintains its quality and durability. Continuous improvement is seen in the textile area of Surat. Simplicity, hard work, and elegance are seen in the textiles.

 Surat has the Best Dress wholesaler in India. Surat sells a lot of fabric materials and a range of garment options are available. A lot of sales of Printed Saree wholesale in Surat is made on a large scale.Rajtex lehengas in surat are very famous.

 Some available garment options are:

Raw     dress materials

Sarees

Suits

Salwaar     Kameez

Western     wear

Kidswear

Lehengas

Skirts

Tops

Leggings

Gowns

Palazzo

Night     Suits

Dupattas

Printed     material

 In most of the shops, you will notice the starting range of products between 100-200 only. The price is so low that you would not even bargain. The quality is maintained, and the quantity is more. What else do you want? Book your tickets.

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What is the top issue dominating the minds of voters this critical election season? Multiple surveys have thrown up a unanimous answer— jobs, or more precisely, the lack of them. Surveys by Pew Research, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Times Now have revealed unemployment as the top issue. The ADR survey, which queried 2.7 lakh people, said employment is the top priority for voters, and they ranked the incumbent government’s performance in this area at an abysmal 2.15 on a scale of 5 — a forgettable performance appraisal. Key opposition party Congress says it will make unemployment the rallying issue in its campaign. There are good reasons why the jobs crisis is getting so much attention. India is reeling under perhaps its worst ever job crisis. According to a leaked official report (denied by the government), India’s unemployment rate stood at a 45-year high at 6.1%, with youth being the most affected. In the world’s youngest and second most populous nation, unemployment is understandably an emotive issue. With a workforce of more than 450 million people, close to 10 million new workers enter the labour market annually. The jobs situation is a reflection of the economy. GDP growth has slowed down. Investment cycle hasn’t picked up. Amid sub-optimal capacity utilisation, fresh investment, especially in the private sector, has been of concern. Foreign direct investment, household savings and farm income have all shown worrying trends. Worse, some of the most labour-intensive sectors led by real estate are going through a rough patch. Post demonetisation and the GST roll-out, the MSME sector is facing multiple challenges. Manufacturing jobs fell in absolute terms from 58.9 million in 2011-12 to 48.3 million in 2015-16. Multiple sectors — from IT services, airlines to telecom — are going through a structural shift or consolidation. Understandably, this election, political parties are laying thrust on the job crisis, trying to put the Modi government on the mat. In the 2014 general elections, he promised to create two crore jobs annually if voted to power. The government has failed to deliver. Yet, when it comes to votes, jobs may not be the biggest rallying factor. Voting is a complex decision in India with caste, class, community, religion, political alliances and sops, etc. being important variables. Also, voters are aware that creating millions of jobs isn’t going to be easy for any party. Rising global trade barriers, automation and intensifying farm-to-non-farm transition make things difficult. A bigger problem is the demand-supply mismatch and India’s employability crisis where graduates are poorly skilled. Demographic dividend turning into a demographic curse has been a constant worry. So, will jobs be top of mind when the Indian voter steps into the voting booth this summer? ET Magazine reporters travelled to trade and industry hubs across the country to find out.Constituency Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP Jobs a Concern, But Will Vote ModiIt’s 10 am on Sunday and the so-called Labour Chowk in Noida’s Sector 49 is abuzz with activity. A few hundred daily wage labourers anxiously await their day’s business. The corner stall serving hot chhole bhature is doing brisk business. Men — young and old — rush to every car that stops by, hoping to land a job for the day. 68648661 “It has become worse. Unemployment has risen. We have become poorer,” says Priyanshu Tiwari, 22, a jobless graduate who has been soliciting work here since 2017. He says the number of workers has multiplied — from around 200 then to now more than 500. Women, a rarity earlier, now have a visible presence. Tiwari, like many others here, barely manages to get hired for 10 days a month, at a daily wage Rs 400. “There are no jobs in Noida’s factories,” he says.As a job seeker, Tiwari is disappointed with the Modi government. “He promised us jobs but did not deliver,” he says. But as a voter, Tiwari has no doubts: “I will vote for Modiji. I like him. He is good for India.” Noida, the economic engine for the politically important Uttar Pradesh, has been a hub for migrant workers. It has seen its voter count grow from 12.14 lakh in 2014 to 14.9 lakh in January 2019. Of them, 1.2 lakh are first-time voters. Meanwhile, Amity University bustles with youthful energy. With 25,000 students, the mood here seems more upbeat. Campus placement has been average. A noticeable trend is that startups are showing up in large numbers. About 30% of MBA students have opted to become entrepreneurs. 68648676 “Five years back, nobody here talked of startups,” says Kritika Das Gupta, who heads the placement cell. Understandably, colleges and universities have become important battleground for parties. Last Sunday, a day before ET Magazine visited Amity, BJP leader and union minister Sushma Swaraj addressed industrialists on campus. The next day, a news channel hosted a show with leaders from all major political parties and students in the audience. Gunendra Singh, 22, says he is impressed with the way the Modi government has pushed the Startup India campaign. His batchmate Aditya Narula, 21, is happy with MSME loan schemes like Mudra. Many ofhis friends, who have launched startups, have managed to get funding. 68648690 “I too applied but didn’t get it. Still, their mentoring helped me,” he says. Now, instead of launching his startup, he has opted to take up a job. Prateeksha Tyagi, a 23-year-old MBA student, is happy with the way the Meerut expressway was built. Manya Khanna, 23, from Chhattisgarh, has landed a job with Hyundai Motor and says she is happy with what the BJP government did in her home state. Her batchmate Shubham Sagar says Modi has delivered in dramatically changing his hometown Varanasi. His support isn’t blind. “Of course, there are ifs and buts. I don’t like the communal overtones or the cow move,” says Sagar. However, of the 40-odd students this reporter met, at least 15 did not have a voter card. 68648697 Co-working hub 91 SpringBoard in Sector 1, Noida, echoes the mood. It houses 190 startups with 800 members. Nikhil Mishra, 27, a serial entrepreneur, says: “Except for the PSUs, the government has little role to play in jobs. I firmly believe that there is a long curve and a short curve game. The Modi government has had just five years. We need to give them more time,” he says. Startup employee Eesha Kapoor, 25, says she is not 100% satisfied but she is sure Modiji has worked hard. “Tell me what is the alternative. There is none,” she says. Over two days, this reporter met close to 100 voters, young and old, educated and illiterate, employed and unemployed. Undoubtedly, job is a critical issue. But the job crisis hasn’t dented Modi’s appeal. Everyone has their own reasons —a decisive and muscular government, its grand ambitions, the infrastructure push, brand India, its attempts to formalise the economy, the TINA (There Is No Alternative) factor, and so on. How will the job crisis affect votes? Voters don’t seem to see a correlation between the two.Constituency -- Surat, Gujarat Back in BusinessBy Shantanu Nandan Sharma 68648781 Rutvik Vaghasiya is a second-generation textile entrepreneur in Surat. The 23-year-old, who has a bachelor’s degree in business administration, is convinced that he can now expand the mill set up by his father, Nitin Bhai, a decade ago. The demand for textiles, Vaghasiya insists, would now pick up, as Surat — the second largest city in Gujarat, after Ahmedabad — is limping back to action. The city, which is a major hub of textiles and diamond processing, faced severe job loss after the double whammy of demonetisation in 2016 and the implementation of GST in 2017. While the diamond industry — with about 6,000 units sustaining 12 lakh people — shrank, it was the loss of jobs in the textiles sector that shook the city. About 300,000 employees, many from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, became jobless when 70,000 looms out of 700,000 were sold in scrap markets after GST, according to data being prepared by the Federation of Surat Textile Traders Association. 68648814 About 60,000 embroidery designers in the city, many of whom hail from the Saurashtra region, also lost their jobs, the data reveals. So, what could be the political fallout of job loss, as Surat goes to polls on April 23? Vaghasiya says job loss won’t matter much: “The majority of people will continue to vote for peace and stability. Surat is one of the safest cities in the country. We don’t want to experiment with something new and bring in potential disruptions to our businesses.” At least a dozen people ET Magazine spoke to echo the sentiment: job loss is a reality, but voters won’t experiment. However, a few among auto drivers and small vendors say they were hit the hardest and election will be an opportunity to vent their anger. 68648830 In the 2017 state poll, 15 of 16 assembly seats in Surat city went in favour of the ruling BJP even when demonetisation, GST and the reservation agitation of Patidars were urgent issues. In the entire state, the ruling party did not fare that well, clinching just 99 seats in an assembly of 182, with the opposition Congress sweeping the Saurashtra region — the home of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. In Surat, the original dwellers — the Surtis, as they are called — comprise less than 10% of the city’s population today. About 60% of a population of 44.6 lakh people (according to Census 2011) have come in from other states such as Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Many of them are now staunch supporters of the BJP. 68648845 A prominent BJP leader from the city, CR Patil, for instance, is a Maharashtrian. He won the 2014 Lok Sabha poll from Navasari constituency with a huge margin of 5.58 lakh votes. The city of Surat is spread across three Lok Sabha constituencies: Surat, Navasari and Bardoli. When asked about a possible dent in his vote bank because of job losses, Patil says: “Surat has not witnessed any job loss. If one mill shut, another cropped up. Anyway, this Lok Sabha poll is not about Surat, but about the nation. People are not voting for me this time. They are voting for a strong prime minister.” In the city, the BJP has shifted the political narrative from jobs to the air raids on terror camps in Pakistan, thereby packaging PM Narendra Modi as a decisive leader. In Surat — which runs on trade and entrepreneurship, not government jobs — the issue of joblessness has receded to the background. When ET Magazine asked five undergraduate students in Surat’s Veer Narmad South Gujarat University on whether they were concerned about the unemployment numbers, they all said, “No.” They were all from well-to-do families of chartered accountants, designers and diamond traders. “I chose interior design as my subject because I love creativity and I don’t need to look for a job. As an interior designer, I can be on my own,” says Saumya Khandelwal, a student. Jobs is not a poll issue for many in a city where “josh” is in running their own businesses.Constituency Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu Loyalties Intact Amid Job WorriesBy Indulekha Aravind 68649388 For some, Sriperumbudur is where memories of good times lie buried. The manufacturing hub located 60 kilometres from Chennai was where Nokia and Foxconn had set up manufacturing units in 2005, employing some 9,000 permanent workers at one point. When an embattled Nokia sold its assets to Microsoft in 2013, the Sriperumbudur plant was left out because of legal complexities surrounding multiple tax demands amounting to thousands of crores. The plant was shut down in 2014 and the Foxconn unit, its major supplier, in 2015. 68649393 “I was a permanent employee at Foxconn for eight years. When I left, I was earning Rs 18,000. Now I’m earning Rs 12,000 as a driver on contract,” says I Jayakumar, while shooting the breeze at a tea shop in the SIPCOT (State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu) industrial complex in Sriperumbudur before his work starts. No political party, he says, can remedy this. Sriperumbudur and Oragadam are part of the auto manufacturing belt outside Chennai, where auto and two-wheeler companies such as Hyundai, Renault Nissan, Royal Enfield and Yamaha have plants, along with a slew of units supplying parts. M Vijayabaskar, professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, says this region, considered part of Greater Chennai, forms one of the most important hubs in Tamil Nadu in terms of job creation, along with Coimbatore. According to the Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy, Tamil Nadu’s unemployment rate was 1.4% in February 2019, considerably lower than the 7.2% nationally. Workers here say jobs are “100%” an important issue. They bring up the lack of job security, low salaries and the inability to find jobs commensurate with educational qualifications. Diploma- and degree-holders in engineering, who work in low-skill jobs, for instance, are dime-a-dozen. Like Vinod N, rushing to make it to his 3 pm shift as a machine technician in an auto major. “Note the point: I am a BE in mechanical engineering. But I am earning Rs 14,000 a month in my current job,” he says. Or Nandini S, who has a diploma in electrical engineering but is working in the quality department of a cable manufacturer, earning Rs 12,000 a month. “We have to work 8-hour shifts, standing,” says the 21-year-old, taking shelter from the fierce midday sun while waiting to hail a shared cab to work. 68649402 Others rue companies’ preference for contract labour from outside the state and trainees replaced every two years, to quell worker unrest. In the past one year, employees of Royal Enfield, Yamaha and Hyundai have gone on strike for better wages. Yet, when they enter the polling booth next month, none of this will matter. 68649408 S Chandrashekhar, for instance, says he has always voted for the AIADMK though former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s death has left him unsure about who he will vote for this time. He says he cleared the railway recruitment exams but could not join because he was unable to afford the bribe he was asked to pay. Praveen N, a 21-year-old trainee at a motorcycle manufacturer who says none of his batchmates from the ITI (industrial training institute) he attended have found jobs, will be casting his debut vote for the DMK, the party his family votes for. Rahul Kumar, waiting in queue to enter a manufacturing plant in Oragadam where he has been a trainee for two years, intends to return to his hometown in Patna to cast his vote for Modi because the last five years, in his view, have been very good. “No party can be successful in job creation,” he says. Quite a few locals voice support for former minister TR Baalu, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Sriperumbudur who won the seat in 2009, before he shifted to Thanjavur in the last Lok Sabha elections. He will be contesting against NDA candidate A Vaithilingam from the Pattali Makkal Katchi. And while Tamil Nadu is considered a tough nut to crack for the BJP, which has just one Lok Sabha MP in the state, Modi finds a few backers. “Educated people support Modi,” says Suresh K, a supervisor at a twowheeler plant. But there is a general air of resignation when discussing parties, promises and how the state will vote next month. The cynical consensus— people will vote for the candidate who pays them the most.Constituency -- Agra, UPReeling from Job LossesBy Prerna Katiyar 68649447 At Heeng ki Mandi, the hub of Agra’s famous footwear market, one is greeted by the sight of lockedup stores and piles of unsold stock. Traders claim half the shops and factories have shut down. “Business has halved; half of the shoe-making factories have shut down,” laments Gagan Das Ramani, president of the Agra Shoe Federation. The man who has spent a good part of his life spearheading the leather industry here has seen better days. 68649486 The shoe industry that dates back to the Mughal era caters to an estimated 65% of country’s footwear demand and 25% of shoe exports, according industry estimates. With leather shoes available for around Rs 500, Agra footwear is seen as great value for money. Since they are handmade unlike the machine-made ones of Delhi or Ballabhgarh, they also offer more designs. Till Partition, the footwear here was made by Dalit families and traded by Muslims. After Partition, Sindhis and Punjabis came into the trade. Business was booming. Annual sales were to the tune of Rs 3,000 crore until about two years back, according to the federation. With cow vigilantism, demonetisation and GST, the footwear business has nearly come to a standstill. “I know of craftsmen who have left shoemaking and picked up menial jobs like driving e-rickshaws for livelihood,” says Ramani. Original GST slab for footwear was 5% for shoes up to Rs 500 and 18% for pricier ones. Subsequently, the rate was cut to 12% for footwear costing more than Rs 500. “Under the VAT (value added tax) regime, there was no tax on it. Additionally, the imposition of 28% GST on raw material has been a double whammy. Thousands associated with the industry are now jobless,” says Harsh Vanjani, a member of the Agra Shoe Federation. Vaibhav Mishra, 21, had a dream of getting a “stable” government job like many others. A 2016 science graduate from Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University he applied for a couple of jobs immediately after college but to no avail. He now works in the accounts department of Kripa Karan Shoe at Dayalbagh and is also preparing for the Staff Selection Commission exams. “I don’t blame anyone else. It is strange — the number of vacancies have risen yet the youth is not getting adequate jobs. Irrespective of local candidate, I’ll vote for Modi. He is the youth’s first choice.” Agra produces nearly 200 million pairs of shoes annually in an industry that employs a quarter of the city’s population, according to Fair Labour Association (FLA), an organisation that promotes workers’ rights. “The shoe industry was once the lifeline of the city; today the industry is on life support,” says Narendra Pushnani, an Agra-based shoe exporter. Aved Khan, 37, has been a marble craftsman in the Gokulpura area. Today, he has left his skilled job and is looking for any work that pays him enough to feed his family. Traders claim imposition of 18% GST has hit the industry hard. “The trade has turned unattractive. I’m not the only one who was forced to leave the business. Earlier, there were close to 70,000 craftsmen; now there are just 15,000. I will vote for the mahagatbandhan candidate,” says Khan. Sunil Kumar Verma, president of Agra Handicrafts Association, points to wider political ramifications. “It’s mostly Muslims who work as marble craftsmen. 2014 was different. This time, most of the minorities will not vote for the BJP.” The BJP has replaced MP Ram Shankar Katheria with UP minister SP Singh Baghel. The SP-BSP-RLD alliance has fielded Manoj Kumar Soni. Making the fight triangular will be Congress candidate and former IRS officer Preeta Harit.Constituency -- Pune, MaharashtraFence SittersBy Suman Layak 68649528 Pune offers a variety of employment opportunities, and job prospects often sit side by side with hopelessness. Political opinion is likewise divided. Between 17-year-old Alisha Pathan (pictured above), an apprentice at Tata Motors Skill Development Centre, and 34-year-old Harpreet Saluja, an out-of-job techie who drives for Uber, there is hope and desperation. Alisha and her colleague Prithviraj Ghadge at Tata Motors are still not eligible for vote but they feel prospects have improved in five years, especially for women. Just as there are voices of support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, there is dissent too. Aspiring beautician Komal Korda is learning the tricks of the trade at Aundh Lighthouse, a centre started by the Pune Municipal Corporation and Pune City Connect, a non-profit with corporate backing. Korda is joining duty at a beauty parlour on April 1 for a stipend of Rs 3,000 a month and hopes to set up her own shop in a year. She was a BJP supporter but now feels that on creating jobs, the government has not kept its word. So she will vote for change. 68649564 “Many of my friends were selected for government jobs after ads were published and exams were conducted but they are yet to get appointment letters.” And there are others like Saluja, who are circumspect. A member of the Forum for IT Employees, a union of IT/BPO staffers, he is fighting a case against his former employer in the labour court. He wants a change in legislation and says he will vote for the party that can protect his ilk. Contrast this with Gaurav Sisodia, a 27-year-old engineer who switched to an IT biggie from a mid-sized tech company last year after teaching himself Java through free resources. “I will go with the development agenda and vote for the BJP candidate.” Pune is an education hub and attracts students from across India and the job scene here is seeing a transition. Instead of hiring permanent staffers, the manufacturing units are opting for contractual and outsourced models.Jobs have become diverse, but permanent employment is decreasing. Suruchi Wagh, cofounder of Jombay, a B2B human resource startup, says the onus is on employees to upgrade their skill sets, especially if they are in the IT/BPO sector. “Permanent employment, as we understand it, is going down. But livelihood options are on the way up….And this has nothing to do with politics,” says Pradeep Bhargava, president of the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture. Pune’s youngsters, who have understood the transition, are adapting quickly. Yet, politically, many are undecided. Atul Bhandare, a 21-year-old from Bopali, who has passed Class 10, did a bakery course at Aundh Lighthouse and landed a job as a baker at Café Peter. In his spare time, he also works as an electrician’s assistant. Bhandare’s family members are traditional voters of the Nationalist Congress Party but he says he will wait before deciding which party to vote for. Rohan Gaikwad, a commerce graduate who found a job at a BPO unit, says his sympathies are with the BJP but he is yet to decide which party to back. “Parties just want our votes.” It may be worth the wait. While the BJP has replaced incumbent MP Anil Shiroke with Girish Bapat as its candidate, the Congress is yet to name his challenger.Constituency -- Ludhiana, PunjabSkill Gap Hurts Job ProspectsBy Ishani Duttagupta 68649674 It is not just the top manufacturing hub in Punjab but also a centre for small industries in India. So it is not surprising that business leaders in Ludhiana are more concerned about finding skilled people rather than raising the red flag on unemployment. Punjab’s Ghar Ghar Rozgaar & Karobaar mission, launched in November last year, was aimed at addressing the skill gap in small and medium enterprises. Pradeep Kumar Agrawal, deputy commissioner, Ludhiana, is not willing to comment specifically on the impact of the mission on the upcoming elections since the Election Commission’s model code of conduct is in place. “However, industries here have been struggling to find people with the right skills. And now, the district bureau of employment and enterprises is trying to connect jobseekers with employers through a new website, counselling sessions as well as job fairs,” he adds. 68649694 Many business leaders say the state government has just made a start and a lot remains to be done on the jobs front. “Most companies here are facing high attrition rate and are looking for the right people for various kinds of jobs, even as youth in the villages and small towns around here face unemployment. We are evenwilling to partner with the government to train people,” says Upkar Singh Ahuja, president of the Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertaking and president of auto parts manufacturing group, New Swan Enterprises. Jaskaran Singh is one of the lucky ones who got employed recently. The 20-year-old was among the 15,000 who applied for a job at a fair held in Ludhiana in February. He landed a job with Ludhiana’s City Bus Service, earning about Rs 10,000 a month. “I was helping out at our family farm after I finished Class 12 but I was constantly looking for a job also. Getting this job was a big break for me. I feel that positive steps like job fairs will play an important role in helping young people in deciding which party to vote for,” he says. Women make up a significant number of the labour force in the factories across Ludhiana, and they are likely to play a significant role in deciding who will represent their constituency in Parliament. “I have a permanent job in a good company where women can work without any fear,” says Jyoti Sharma, 35, who earns around Rs 10,000 per month, working the wheel assembly line at Avon Cycles, Ludhiana’s second largest bicycle manufacturer. But the softspoken single mother of two children is aware that her income is not enough. “As a single mother who must think of the future of her children, I will be closely watching which political party addresses the issues of employment and wages.” The Vardhman group, one of the largest manufacturing companies in Ludhiana, employs 10,500 people in Punjab, including 3,700 women. “We employ many women in our factories and address the issue of their welfare in a big way, including running four hostels for them,” says DL Sharma, director, Vardhman Textiles. But to deepen the pool of talent available to employers in Ludhiana, he says the central and state governments need to take more meaningful steps. Elections are more than a month and a half away and none of the political parties have declared their candidates for this constituency. No matter who contests the polls in this bicycles and knitwear hub, jobs and employability will certainly be important issues.Constituencies: Bangalore Central & Bangalore North, Karnataka Choke CollarBy Rahul Sachitanand 68649727 Bellandur and Peenya, once sleepy backwaters of Bengaluru, provide contrasting views of the city, which is known as an employment magnet. Bellandur, in southeast Bengaluru, is a throbbing hub of large technology and startup offices and campuses. Peenya, in the northwest, is a grungy industrial suburb with thousands of small manufacturers crammed into a warren of roads. Factories often operate out of cramped facilities here, a far cry from the glass and chrome buildings of Bellandur. Those working in Bellandur grumble about choked roads. During peak time, a vehicle might take an hour to cover 5 km. Cab aggregator drivers shudder when they get a trip to this area. A lake next door, foaming over with industrial effluent, keeps this borough in the news. Nevertheless, places like Bellandur, Whitefield and Electronic City house sought-after offices for technology coders. A significant chunk of voters here are young people or are first or second timers. The major contestants in the locality in Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency are incumbent MP PC Mohan (BJP) and Rizwan Arshad (Congress). Actor Prakash Raj is also contesting this seat as an independent. 68649741 From his office building in Bellandur, Arpit Bhatt, 32, an engineer with a multinational networking and security firm, is keenly watching the election drama. He has felt the pangs of unemployment, albeit in the US. When he graduated from his master’s programme in 2009, the financial meltdown was in full flow. Barely 30% of his classmates bagged internships. He could not. “I want to vote for candidates who have a vision for key issues such as jobs and job creation and have the capabilities to execute it.” Lok Sabha polls candidates should provide a broader framework for the country’s progress rather than promise to solve Bengaluru’s local issues, says the engineer. The city — once a magnet for technical and blue-collar workers thanks to staterun firms such as ITI, HAL, BEL and BEML — saw a spurt in jobs from an assortment of sectors. Bengaluru was a favoured destination for technology behemoths, too. But technology outsourcing’s sheen as a pre-eminent employer has now dulled. Rapidly changing technology needs and tightening immigration norms have slowed job and salary growth. This has also affected indirect employment in this IT hub. Some 34 km to the northwest, Peenya houses several industries based here for decades. There are some 6,000 small enterprises crammed into a warren of roads in the industrial area, employing as many as 800,000 people, according to Peenya Industries Association. Companies in this cluster generate over Rs 12,000 crore in revenue, it says. Despite the change in work-scape, the primary issue is the same. Over the past couple of years, jobs in this primarily cash-driven industrial hub dried up due to demonetisation and GST. “Peenya continues to be a hub of employment for south India,” says Giri MM, president of Peenya Industries Association. “We business owners require at least 100,000 people for our factories.” But Giri wants actual employability, rather than empty job generation boasts. “We hire poorly trained technical talent and invest our resources to train them.” The primary contestants from the locality in Bangalore North constituency are the BJP’s DV Sadananda Gowda and the Congress’ Krishna Byre Gowda. Two streets away from the cool offices of Peenya Industries Association, M Rajanna, 50, a blue-collar worker in a small steel fabrication unit, says the job generation claims made by ruling party politicians are bunkum. Dressed in dark-blue oil-soaked overalls, he takes a moment to wipe his brow with a rag. “These are all empty promises that politicians have made over time and this party (BJP) is no different. We tend to ignore these claims and vote for the candidate that at least promises the most changes to where we live and work.” He rushes away to grab a quick lunch before resuming work. Several small-scale units here have been operating on a knife edge after demonetisation and GST. If business dives, employment dries up. Rajanna and people like him are taking it one day at a time. from Economic Times https://ift.tt/2TPE4aY

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“Chinese imports have thrown a spanner in the wheel of India’s economic progress per se, and the industrial sector in particular,” the parliamentary standing committee on commerce voiced in its report tabled last week.

Beginning with hard numbers that establishes its basic premise of huge and constantly growing Sino-Indian trade imbalance, the report dwells on the boiling debate on the market economy status to China, echoing a similar line of thought implicit in the US-initiated trade war.

Identifying the problem of costly capital in India vis-à-vis China, it suggests product specific strategies for improving the trade balance, underlining the accountability of pertinent institutions, including the Directorate General for Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties and the Risk Management Division of the Central Board of Indirect taxes and Customs.

The Committee found that Chinese manufacturers were re-routing their products through the markets of other countries that India has Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with. Straddling the South East Asia, underdeveloped members of ASEAN have served as hubs for Chinese exporters to circumvent anti-dumping and countervailing duties, it says.

It has recommended a relook at the Least Developed Countries (LDC) arrangements and joint verification/ certification mechanism with the partner countries. ALSO READ: Increased aluminium imports to hit realisations of domestic producers

The report has also expressed skepticism about India's ongoing negotiations with these nation and China, among others for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement.

It expressed hope that India might offer to reduce its tariffs by 74-86 per cent of all goods.

The unscrupulous imports from China are also on account of influx of under-invoiced Chinese goods, goods brought in through mis-declaration and outright smuggling, it says.

These illegalities have its share of adverse effect on domestic industry, the report declared. In April to December 2017-18, as many as 1,127 cases of smuggling have been registered by India, recovering more than Rs 5.4 billion worth of Chinese goods.

However, it also calls for measures such as encouraging people to buy Indian products, popularising ‘Swadeshi apnao’ (consume domestic goods) and generate positive public opinion about Indian goods, which, trade experts say, contribute little to revive domestic industry.

We look at the committee’s view from the perspective of data to understand the depth of the trade imbalance. The big picture 16.6%: Chinese share in India’s imports grew from 11.6 per cent in 2013-14 to 16.6 per cent in 2017-18. This came as a result of Chinese imports growing at a staggering 20 per cent in 2017-18, compared to 9 per cent growth four years ago. India exports grew by 9.8 per cent in 2017-18. $50 bn: In a decade to 2017-18, India’s exports to China rose by $2.5 billion. In the same period, China’s imports in India rose by $50 billion. India registered a trade deficit of $157 billion in 2017-18.

5%: Chinese government gives an effective rebate of 17 per cent to its exporter companies.

This, the committee says, results in Chinese goods being 5-6 per cent cheaper than their Indian counterparts, making it lucrative for Indian importers.

9%: On account of costlier energy, finance and logistics, Indian goods are costlier by about 9 per cent in the global market. Chinese industry gets loans at 6 per cent, compared to 11-14 per cent in India. Logistics costs are 1 per cent of the business in China, compared to 3 per cent in India.

294: Of the 803 licenses provided by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to foreign manufacturers selling in India under the Foreign Manufacturer Certification Scheme (FMCS), 294 licenses for 55 products have been granted to Chinese manufacturers.

A similar scheme has also provided 9,274 registrations for information technology and electronics products. Of this, 5857, 0r 64 per cent, registrations have been granted to Chinese manufacturers.

8%: Despite the fact that 75-80 per cent of Chinese steel products are covered under anti-dumping duty, their imports have increased 8 per cent in 2017-18.

Sectors that have been impacted Industry Key number and how badly it hurts Recommendations Pharmaceuticals 1,200%: In the life-saving drugs category, the dependence on Chinese imports is as much as 90 per cent. As much as 75% of the APIs (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) used in the formulations of essential drugs in the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) are sourced from China. China has increased the prices of bulk drugs 11-fold, or 1,200 per cent, during last two years. Revive India’s fermentation based API capability. Solar 90%: Chinese solar imports form 90% of the India’s market share directly or indirectly through their offshore companies across South East Asia. Further, its dumping prices in India are lower than that of the price at which they sell in Japan, Europe or the US. Under the Special Incentive Package Scheme, no domestic manufacturer has got any capital subsidy till now. Domestic industry must pursue innovation that will help in further reduction in price per unit. Anti-dumping duty may be levied in a differential manner to facilitate level pegging for domestic industry. Textile 35%: Cheap Chineseimports have resulted in 35 per cent closure of power looms in Surat and Bhiwandi, the report notes. It fires a salvo at the GST structure, stating that taxing synthetic fibres at 18 per cent, yarns at 12 per cent and fabrics at 5 per cent has caused unintended benefit to China resulting in increased imports of fabric from there. Need to look at the LDC arrangements wherein imports from LDCs are fully exempt. Increase the customs duty on garment imports. Modernize the power loom and handloom sector for mass production with quality. Toys 85%: About 85-90 per cent of toy market space is commanded by Chinese products, the report says. It has affected 50 per cent of the domestic toy industry. Low-priced Chinese toys are either mass-produced or are rejects from other countries and are diverted to Indian sub-continent/ Africa. Further, Chinese toys are toxic in high proportion, it says. Issue quality control order (QCO) for toys and ensure toxic and cheap quality Chinese toys do not enter the country. Import of finished toy products from China be banned Bicycles 58%: Bicycle imports from China saw a rise of 58 per cent in volume and 47 per cent in value in April to October 2017 over the previous year. Further, under-invoiced bicycles constitute 85% per cent of the total bicycle imports from China in 2017-18. Apart from affecting bicycle manufacturers, it is gradually killing the unorganized industry of small bicycle parts manufacturers who provide employment to many skilled and unskilled workers. Carry out detailed analysis of the customs data in order to unravel the modus operandi of the unscrupulous importers involved and curb the entry of under-valued Chinese bicycles into the country. Source: Impact of Chinese Goods on Indian Industry, 145th report of Parliamentary standing committee on commerce

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GST-related issues being seriously addressed, Smriti Irani tells Surat textile traders

Union Textile minister Smriti Irani on Friday assured the textile industry of Surat that issues related to GST are being seriously addressed in association with the Finance ministry. Visiting Surat as part of the ongoing campaign of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government to celebrate four years the BJP rule, Irani said that the textile businessmen facing issues with refund under Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST) would be heard at special camps being organised by the Finance ministry.

Addressing members of the textile industry, Irani said, “I had meeting with the members of the textile industry and Finance Minister Piyush Goyal to discuss the issue of refund of IGST. The Finance Minister took up the issue seriously and assured that the arrangements for the refunds of IGST will be made soon.” “The FM has announced that camps will be organised from May 31 to June 14, where IGST issues being faced by the textile industry will be sorted out on the spot and refund will be given in the camps,” she said.

Irani claimed that the previous textile commissionerate had no statistical data of the industry and a survey to gather the figures to help implement the schemes was recently conducted. She said, “During discussions related to textile industry in the GST council, some delegates of the textile industry had come to us and put forth three demands, which included the rise of the import duty on the silk and to bring velvet industry and job work under five per cent slab of GST. We have hiked the import duty on silk to 20 per cent and the remaining demands of velvet and job work are being worked out.”

Attacking the previous UPA government at the Centre for delaying technology upgrades in the textile industry, Irani said, “In last three years of UPA government, 40 schemes were launched, out of which 20 were suspended without spending a single penny. Meanwhile, we have worked in the direction of 100 per cent allocation and implementation. Under the UPA government, only ten projects were sanctioned in Surat and Rs 6 crore were allocated between 2011 to 2014. Under PM Narendra Modi’s leadership, 110 projects have been sanctioned in Surat, in which Rs 34 crore have been released while Rs 57 crore have been approved. For machinery upgrade, a Rs 61 crore subsidy was released by government in 2014-15, Rs 92 crore in 2015-16, Rs 199 crore in 2016-17 and Rs 83 crore in 2017-18. Over 2,900 applicants from Surat, had applied for this.” She said that capital subsidy in technical textiles had also been increased with an intention to allow the local businessmen to seize the opportunity of indigenous manufacturing instead of relying on importing the items.

Irani, however, refused to meet the representatives of the Federation of Gujarat Weavers Association (FOGWA). The association’s president Ashok Jirawala said, “We contacted Surat MP Darshana Jardosh, who was with Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani and requested her to give us an appointment. We were told that union minister refused to meet us. Our intention to meet her was to hand over a list of demands which we have made about the issues that the industry is facing. We all are disappointed as we were not allowed to meet her.”

When contacted, Jardosh told The Indian Express, “I received a call from power loom association president Ashok Jirawala when Smriti Irani and I were in the middle of a press conference. I told him that it I will let you know after contacting her. It was too late and later she had other pending programmes to attend.”

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Power looms have been the backbone of the textile industry, facilitating the manufacture of materials in an efficient manner. Explore the complete range of textile machinery at our Power Looms Machine Manufacturer. Revolutionize your weaving processes with cutting-edge technology. Visit Paramount Looms and embark on a journey of transformation!