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Related Keywords: apparel units, creating marketing linkages, develop the state as hub of textile industry, focusing on textile sector, looking for new textile and apparel policy, operational for period of five years, provide incentives to investors, set up garment cotton based ancillary industries, strengthen the procurement of raw cotton, Telangana state

Telangana state focusing more on the textile sector and encouraging apparel units to develop the state as a hub of textile industry for which they are looking at a new textile and Apparel policy (T-TAP) in January 2016 which will be operational for a period of five years from the date of its announcement.

Related Keywords: apparel units, bulk apparel purchase, energy consumption of textile units, profit margins of textile units, textile stakeholders, textile units in Tirupur, The Sripuram Trust

The Sripuram Trust, formed by different textile stakeholders, has started grouping together apparel units in the Tirupur cluster to purchase LED (light emitting diode) bulbs under a consortium approach in order to reduce energy consumption and increase the profit margins.

Initially, it has planned that a total of one lakh tube lights would be replaced with LED lamps, said T.R. Vijayakumar, coordinator of Sripuram Trust.

Around five lakh tube lights are being used by the textile units in Tirupur cluster in total on the production floor and on the campus of the units, he added.