Surat Textile News Today

Textile traders from Surat met FM Nirmala Sitharaman to raise concerns over new payment norms in the Income Tax Act. Weaving industry players support the norms, while textile retailers across the country have stopped buying from Surat traders. Surats weaving industry leaders oppose the demand for extending the payment time limit.

Police have only registered an offence against three employees of the firm, but not the company owner.

Surat: A city-based textile trader lost Rs 67 lakh to three Ahmedabad-based buyers who did not make payment for goods purchased from him.

Surat (Gujarat) [India], April 24 (ANI/PNN): With the festive season underway, Julahaa Sarees has launched a new campaign called Rishte Bunte Hain Dil Se Hi that aims to establish Traditional Indian Sarees as an integral part of our innate gifting culture in India

Traders and the dyeing and printing mills have already started receiving advance orders for saris from various political parties and they expect to send one crore saris this time SURAT: The Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown had brought the textile traders in the country’s largest man-made fabric (MMF) hub on their knees. Diwali sales and the marriage season too remained bleak. But the assembly elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal this year has finally brought so...

In Surat’s power looms, ‘ease of doing business’ norms leave workers vulnerable to exploitation Wages are low, hours are long and rates of injury are high. Representative image: A scene in a power-loom factor during the coronavirus lockdown in April. | Francis Mascarenhas/AFP This is an excerpt from the sixth edition of the India Exclusion Report, a collaborative effort involving institutions and individuals working with a shared notion of social and economic equity, ju...

Federation of Surat Textile traders Association president Manoj Agrawal said, “We are happy that state government had finally accepted our proposal. Due to the fly by night firms, the industry faced loss of hundreds of crores per year. The local police station officials are busy maintaining law and order and dealing other offences.” After the inauguration, the minister addressed media persons and said, “We have come to know that many small traders become victims of the conspirators who pu...