The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) during a full Bench hearing here on Friday, sought a status report from the Tamil Nadu government on the steps being taken to ensure sanitation facilities for garment and textile industries across the State.
The garment export volume reached US$ 4.3 billion in 11 months in the current financial year, up US$ 1.1 billion compared with the same period of the previous year, said an official of the Ministry of Commerce.
Thai police raided garment factories that supply aprons to Starbucks and clothing to Bauer Hockey on Thursday after a Thomson Reuters Foundation exposé published last week found workers were being illegally underpaid.
For a nation of a billion consumers with over 60 million SMEs spread out in metros as well as the Bharat, the fully digital system of tax network, with complex new laws to comply with, the regime was overwhelming to every business owner.
New Delhi: The finance ministry is understood to have asked the state-controlled banks to go slow on the recovery of loans from the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as the economic downturn may have restricted their capacity to repay the dues on time.
India and its textiles industry have a long and storied history. However, in the recent past, the country has fallen behind some of its peers, especially when it comes to catering to the global export markets.