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CONFERENCE ON EXPORT AND MARKET OPPORTUNITIES FOR ICHALKARANJI CLUSTER Ichalkaranji is majorly known as textile hub and shuttle less city. The Textile Commissioner Of-fice (Ministry of Textiles), DKTE institute, PDEXCIL and Textile Value Chain Media; 4 service industry jointly organised the conference for Industry development on 27th October, 2021 at Conference Hall of Janata Sahakari Bank, New Building Opposite to Ichalkaranji Municipal Cor-poration, Ichalkaranji between 3pm to 7pm. Entire Conference was Live on YouTube Channel of DKTE institute. View Conference Video The conference theme was “Export and Market Opportunities for the Ichalkaranji cluster”. The main objective of this conference was to gather all textile manufacturers of Ichalkaranji and give guidance about export and market development. Conference started by lighting a lamp by Mr. Prakash Awade, MLAIchalkaranji; Ms. RoopRashi, Textile Commissioner of India; Ms. Usha Pol, Deputy Director General- Textile Commissioner ; Mr. S P Verma, Joint Textile Commissioner ; Mr. Vishwanath Agarwal, Vice Chairman PDEXCIL and Mr. Sunil Patil, Immediate Past Chairman PDEXCIL.
Dr. P V Kadole, Director of DKTE institute and also director of various organisations and banks, welcomed all the dignitaries and chief guests present while delivering his welcome speech. At the same time, he pointed out that the
shortcomings felt by the manufacturer while exporting will be resolved here and the questions raised related export-import will be answered through this program. Direct and Merchant Export know how, many more queries will be answered here.
ing machinery. New branded sizing machinery like Karl Mayer, Benninger has also established in Ichalkaranji. For Processing of Fabrics, Entire new plant has set up with Effluent Treat Plant ( ETP) , Zero Liquid Discharge( ZLD). By working on the plain loom and designing, the manufacturer sells fabric to the merchant ex-porter and the merchant exporter sells the fabric in his own name, so the main manufacturer left behind.Common Facility Centre needs to be established so every person to sell his fabric at the international level and get a fair price for his fabric.
Shri PRAKASH AWADE, MLAIchalkaranji, Vice Chairman of DKTE Institute, former Minister of TextilesIchalkaranji guided everyone on the subject of Ichalkaranji Cluster and Development. Ichalkaranji Shuttle less City journey started in year 2004, Mr. Awade and his team took lot of efforts to become shuttle less city of India by facing all odds and challenges. Finance challenges are resolved by Kallappa Janta Sahakari Bank, approximately 60 % of the city entrepreneurs has got finance through this bank. New Technology seminars/ exhibitions visited international-ly and many more needed education/ skills program given by institutes, government and many private bodies. Today Ichalkaranji has proud to become shuttleless city and set example in In-dia for textile cluster Development. Today all branded International weaving loom company like TSUDAKOMA, PICANOL, ITEMA Weaving etc. have their presence through regional office in Ichalkaranji, this is power of manufacturing development. After modernisation of weaving technology, next challenge industry faced is sizing and pro-cessing ; as Morden weaving loom not supported old siz-
Mr. Awade also mentioned that they have set up a garment sector in Ichalkaranji, at start 4,500 women had been trained and given stipend in return and due to this training process, today 8000 to 10000 women are working in various garment industries. Ichalkaranji town has 3 lac population, Government criteria of below 5 lac population town , our city has highest per capi-ta income, this is hard working city, 24 hours city works. Survey conducted about “ Rank Cities on Employability (whoever wants work, get it )” in which top ranked is Surat and second rank got Ichalkaranji. Since every person got a job in Ichalkaranji, the per capita income of Ichalkaranji is Rs. 1,70,000 / Year ( highest in India under 5 Lac population Town). Ichalkaranji is the decentralised top centre not only in Maharashtra, but also in the interna-tional arena. Everything is good in Ichalkaranji, but today Ichalkaranji is lagging behind in terms of export, middle chain getting benefits of exports but manufacturer are not. At present, Ichalkaranji has a handful of exporters, but expects this number to increase. The main reason why textile export is not very good in Ichalkaranji
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