Exodus of migrants hits garment, knitwear hubs, Retail News, ET Retail

Kolkata: Garment and knitwear hubs throughout the region from Ludhiana to Tirupur are struggling with lack of tailors and finishing staff as hundreds of 1000’s of migrant staff who ended up engaged in these positions have left for their hometowns amid the countrywide lockdown.

Whilst a part of the market is striving to woo the migrant staff by presenting incentives, many others are approaching governments of states this sort of as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, the place these staff come from, to convince them to return, market insiders said.

“There is an acute lack of those who stitch garments and also those engaged in ironing and pressing of the garments,” said Rahul Mehta, main mentor of Garments Producers Affiliation of India (CMAI), the country’s oldest garment market affiliation primarily based in Mumbai, as factories get started to reopen after more than two months of Covid-19 lockdown.