IMPORTANCE OF

TEXTILE INDUSTRIES
IN INDIAN ECONOMY

Introduction
What does a textile industries comprise of ?

Cotton Textiles
Silk Textiles
Woollen Textiles
Ready Made Garments
Handicrafts
Jute
Coir & Coir Products
% export
share

The Indian textile industry is as old as the world textile

industry. In fact the first known cotton cultivation seems to be
from India followed by UK.

AHMEDABA
D

Manchester of
= INDIA
Kanpur another textile industry in India also has the soubriquet
"Manchester of the East"

An
Overview
Indian textiles and clothing (T&C) industry is extremely varied :
Industry contributes about
14% to industrial production
4% to GDP
8% excise and customs revenue collections.
17 % to country's export earnings
Largest provider of employment after agriculture
Direct employment to over 35 million people
50 million engaged in allied activities
Self reliant in the entire value chain fibre to fashion
Supports agriculture in over 9.5 million hectares of land where cotton is
cultivated.

SPENDING PATTERNS IN
INDIA IN APPAREL CATEGORY

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Indians are increasingly becoming conscious about

their appearances.
This is seconded from the fact that the textile and
apparel market is expected to grow at over 11 percent
to reach Rs. 10, 00,000 crores by 2020 .
Ready to Wear and Ready to Stitch fabric would rise
from 77% at present to nearly 90% of the apparel
Industry size.

Following figures are in (USD billion)

SPENDING PATTERNS IN
INDIA IN APPAREL
CATEGORY
According to Technopak analysiswomens
wear market is growing faster than other
apparel markets and is expected to grow at
a CAGR of 14% by 2020.
Meanwhile Mens apparel market is
presently growing steadily at a CAGR of
over 15% percent.

GROWING TEXTILE
ECONOMY

Textiles exports stood at US$ 28.53 billion during April 2013January 2014 as compared to
US$ 24.90 billion during the corresponding period of the previous year, registering a growth of
14.58 per cent.
Garment exports from India is expected to touch US$ 60 billion over the next three years, with
the help of government support, said Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman, Apparel Export Promotion
Council (AEPC).

INCREASING MARKE
T SIZE
Period of Rise

April 2013February 2014.

Material

Percentage increase

MMF(Man Made Fibre)

10 per cent

Cotton yarn production

10 per cent

Blended and 100 per cent non-cotton

yarn production

8 per cent

6 per cent
Cloth production by mill sector

2 per cent

Cloth production by power loom

9 per cent

Cloth production by hosiery

Government Initiatives
Some of initiatives taken by the government to further promote the industry are as under:
Under revival, reform and restructuring (RRR) package, financial assistance to the tune of

Rs 1,019 crore (US$ 169.66 million) has been approved and the Indian government has released Rs 741

crore (US$ 123.42 million).

Government of India plans to set up a US$ 60 billion target for the current financial year, a jump of over 30 per cent from

the previous financial year.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved an Integrated Processing Development
Scheme (IPDS) with a corpus of Rs 500 crore (US$ 83.28 million) to make textiles processing units more

environment-friendly and globally competitive.

SOME INDIAN
TEXTILE
INDUSTRIES

ACHEIVEM
ENT

India overtakes Germany and Italy, is new world

No. 2 in textile exports
Year-wise Target fixed and achievements
during the last three years

Year

Target

Achievement

2011-12

27000

33310

(inUS$ Million)
2012-13

38000

34933

2013-14

34000

39310

Year-wise Target fixed and achievements

during the last three years

Education(Textiles/Fashion)
Natinal Institute of Fashion
Technlogy
Apparel Training & Design Ce
ntre
Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel Institute of Textile M

IS INDIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY ABLE TO MAXIMISE ITS POTENTIAL

OF GAINING DOLLARS ?

WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

6% empoyees women in
Northern India
9% empoyees women in Central India
17% empoyees women in Southern India
In southern India's Tirupur town the industry employs
400,000 workers regularly and an additional 500,000
seasonally where most of them women .

The industry today would need an additional 1.5 million

people and about 6 million in next 5 years to come.

Current Textiles & Clothing exports trend:

(a) Trend during the period 2011-12 (P).
In rupee terms, during 2011-12 (P) there has been a surge in exports of
Handloom
product (68.51%), Coir & Coir Manufactures (40.49%), Cotton Textiles
(37.23%),
Man-made textiles (25.99%), RMG (24.80%), Wool & Woolen textile
(20.97%) and
Jute (4.72%).
In US$ terms the surge during 2011-12 (P) registered in Handloom
product (60.09%),
Coir & Coir Manufactures (33.46%), Wool & Woolen textile (14.93%), Manmade
textiles (19.69%), RMG (18.56%), Cotton Textiles (30.37%) and Jute (0.52).
(b) Latest Trend during the period 2012-13 (P)
The total textile exports during 2012-13 (P) were valued at Rs
172494.71 crore as
against Rs 159570.55 crore during the financial year 2011-12, registering
an increase
of 8.10 percent in rupee terms.

Indias textiles products, including handlooms and

handicrafts, are exported to
more than a hundred countries. However, the USA
and the EU, account for about
two-thirds of Indias textiles exports. The other
major export destinations are
China, U.A.E., Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Republic of
Korea, Bangladesh, Turkey,
Pakistan, Brazil, Hong-Kong, Canada and Egypt etc.

To promote apparel exports 12 locations has been

approved by the government to set up apparel parks for
exports

National Institute of Fashion Technologies played

pioneering role in growth of apparel industry and exports

To improve technical skills in apparel industry government

established 75 apparel training and design centres across
India