Employment Generation in Fashion Industry

Textile industry of India: The employee generator

With the dismantling of textile quotas at the beginning of 2005 by US and Europe, a huge prospect has been unlocked for India. The promising boom in the textiles sector - which accounts for 14 per cent of the total Industrial production, provides about 30 per cent of the total exports and is the second largest employment generator after agriculture, which already employs around 35 million people. This sector aims to increase India's share in world's textile trade from the present 4 per cent to 8 per cent by 2010 and to gain export value of US $ 50 billion by 2010. As the textile industry is labour intensive it would generate 12 million new jobs in the textile sector (needs to employ 11 million semi-skilled and one million skilled people); and modernization and consolidation for making a globally competitive textile industry. In order to make India a service and production center, the Indian government recently declared the long-awaited Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Rules which are anticipated to bring Rs 100,000 crore investments and generate five lakh jobs in next three years. There is a Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks which plans to establish 25 integrated textile parks by the financial year 2006- 07. Hence in so many sectors, especially in textile and garment sector, there will be a huge opportunity for employment. Say for example, at Ludhiana Integrated Textile Park (LITP) which is spread over 150 acres and is proposed to have around 125-150 textile units and is expected to generate 80,000 jobs. West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) is setting up another textile park which would generate employment for 8,000 people. Hi-tech Weaving Park (Hyderabad) would also generate employment for 12,000 people.

So, in the near future, to fill this gap, there will be a huge demand of personnel from top to bottom which also covers various fields like design production management, quality control, planning, fabric design, printing, fashion accessory design, fashion merchandising, textile science, colour mixing, marketing and so on, which are all a part of fashion technology.

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