Ludhiana: A fire broke out at a garment factory in New Shakti Nagar on Sunday noon. Nobody was injured in the incident.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment has to really labour hard to generate, collate and produce accurate job data.
All BGMEA member factories have given Eid bonuses to their workers, while about 90 percent have paid the salary for the month of May as well.
After the portfolios of Union Ministers were announced on Friday and Smriti Irani was retained as Union Minister for Textiles, the textile and clothing industry here is hopeful that many of the pending issues will be resolved.
The textiles industry has welcomed the appointment of Smriti Irani as the Union textiles minister in the new Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
A hire-and-fire policy on labour is required in textiles to realise its full export potential, an expert panel has suggested.