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regular factory, but also something
which will actually improve the
skills of our tailors like a training
centre and a sustainable factory.
Many more facilities will also
be provided to the workers to
support their families and children.
Approximately, we will invest close
to Rs. 24 crore to achieve these
goals.” The company decided to
also expand outside Karnataka as
the policies of Odisha and Andhra
Pradesh seem to be more fruitful
compared to Karnataka.
95 per cent of the workforce in
their factory are women and the
company is very active on workers’
welfare front. Apart from routine
health check-up camps, it has
comfortable loan systems for its
workers, helping them in education
including the production unit. Earlier
we were working daily for 8 hours,
but now we will work for 9 hours
from Monday to Friday which makes
us loose some hours of production.
But we are hoping that our workforce
will be more energetic after this
decision is executed. Especially as
most of our employees are women
workers, they will get more time
to spend at home,” informed a
proud Adil.
Adil manages factories and for
better management of these with a
full-fledged professional approach,
he has distributed senior staff to the
factories as the CEO of the company
doesn’t sit in the corporate office.
Each of the factories of Colorlines
has senior management present
there. “We like to assign approval
ROSL driving growth in
Indian garment industry,
says AEPC
Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), the apex council
for the apparel exporters in India, recently conducted a survey
to find out the reasons behind the exceptional export growth
of 31.7 per cent in April 2017. In its study, AEPC figured
out that Rebate of State Levies (ROSL) scheme has hugely
impacted the industry in a positive way. The industry seems
to be undergoing a sudden boom and is expecting a constant
increase in exports over a period of three years.
According to the survey done in 8 states where there has
been substantial apparel production, 85 per cent of apparel
exporters were considerably benefited by the scheme in
their export performance, while 65 per cent witnessed a
constructive influence. Additionally, 64 per cent people said
that the scheme helped them a lot to expand their factories,
which leads them to generate more employment and better
work environment. After recording the impact of ROSL, the
exporters are all set to increase their capacity regularly to
gain more. About 61 per cent of industry respondents believe
that they can deliver growth above 15-20 per cent; with as
many as 6 per cent expect more than 30 per cent growth.
Ashok G Rajani, Chairman, AEPC commented, “AEPC has
been reiterating the importance of ROSL for the industry.
ROSL has been a helping hand for the industry to deliver
phenomenal growth in the sector and its people. The day
the scheme had been announced, since last June, it played a
positive role for the exporters and its roll-out in September
last year helped lifting the plunging apparel exports.”
TEA urges centre to expedite
the release of ROSL pending
claims
of their children. “As our industry
is very time bound and stressful,
we all are running from pillar to
post… We have therapists and
psychologists coming regularly to
meet the workers as well as the
middle-level management. Another
thing that we just implemented is
the changing working hours of the
factory (not corporate office). Now
we are working five days a week
decisions to the senior management.
All of us meet once a month and
discuss the overall strategy. The
benefit that we have in this trade
being young is that we can learn
from the experience of stalwarts
of the industry. Our core team is
very much experienced to run the
company. We are roaming around
and learning,” Adil concluded on a
positive note.
Raja M Shanmugham, President, Tirupur Exporters’
Association (TEA), has urged the centre to expedite releasing
Rebate of State Levies (ROSL) pending claims. He said that
the ROSL has been pending for more than nine months for
most of the garment exporting units and only a few units
got the partial ROSL amount till the month of December.
The total ROSL amount for All India Readymade Garment
Exports (Woven and Knitwear) estimated for the period – 20th
September 2016 to 20th June 2017 – is Rs. 3,025 crore, and
out of this till date only Rs. 400 crore has been disbursed and
the balance of Rs. 2,625 crore is yet to be given. He also stated
that for Tirupur exporting units alone, the ROSL amount
pending is about Rs. 550 crore. Though in the Union Budget
2017-18, Rs. 1,555 crore was allotted for ROSL claim, till date
it has not been disbursed.
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