LABOUR SHORTAGES IN INDIA’S CLOTHING SECTOR LIMITS INDUSTRY’S ABILITY TO SNATCH ORDERS FROM CHINESE COMPETITORS
August 2nd, 2020
Indian apparel exporters continue to face severe labour shortages, limiting the orders they can accept and undermining the quality of their work, even as the country’s five months-long Covid-19 related lockdown has largely been lifted. This scarcity of trained and experienced labour is coming at a bad time for Indian manufacturers who have an opportunity to snatch business from Chinese competitors as western buyers seek to diversify supply chains during the pandemic.
That is according to Raja M Shanmugham, president of the Tirupur Exporters Association, ...
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