Coimbatore: Textile industry’s agenda for Lok Sabha aspirants

COIMBATORE: The textile industrialists in Coimbatore and Tirupur region have appealed to the Lok Sabha candidates of this region to address the issues of the textile sector in their action plans and manifestoes and said they expect them to form a systematic approach to solve problems of the sector.

Speaking on the textile sector, Prabhu Dhamodharan, convener of Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF), said, “the textile industry is contributing lot towards growth of the western region of Tamil Nadu for the past ten decades. The sector is the backbone of industrial economy and other industries from this region including engineering sector have also developed with strong foundation of textile sector. More than Rs 40,000 crore of foreign exchange is being earned every year in western region alone. We are expecting MPs from this region should act as bridge between industry and government to bring further growth.”

Commenting on the demands from peoples’ representatives, he said, “MPs should allot special time to interact with textile industry associations to drive common minimum policy to present to the new government at the Centre. We also expect to appoint an economist with directions of MPs and the economist would act as coordinator with our industries and various government ministries.”

According to him, visits of joint secretaries and directors of few ministries to the region once in every quarter to interact with various stake holders will help to understand trends, issues and needs of industries.

Prabhu Dhamodharan further said, “we also request our MPs’ to conduct yearly review conference with Textile, Commerce and Finance ministries at Delhi with participation of entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, a review meet with stakeholders before every parliament meeting, would help MPs to understand the industry’s needs and demands and the views can be registered in time in Parliament.”