Related Keywords: jet looms, knitwear capital, powerloom weavers, Sircilla, Textile Industry, Textile town, Tirupur model
Telangana Government’s plans to develop textile industry in Sircilla on the lines of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, referred to as the knitwear capital of India, has resuscitate among the power loom weavers.
The town and its surrounding areas were rocked by a spate of suicides by the weavers due to crisis in the industry, unemployment and invasion of jet looms for over a decade. Replicating the Tirupur model for the textile town in Telangana can work wonders, only if there is an attitudinal change among the power loom weavers.
