The lock down due to COVID crisis has affected the textile industry and livelihood of textile  labourers .  The Government has issued Guidelines for restarting various industries, manufacturing units with safety precautions after almost a month. The National disaster Management authority has issued detailed guidelines on how to restart plants taking precautions and ensuring Covid-19 prevention measures.

The NDMA guidelines said while restarting a unit the first week should be considered as the trial or test run period after ensuring  all safety protocols. Companies should not try to achieve high production targets. There should be 24 hours santisation of the factory premises.

Tiruppur District Collector Thiru. K. Vijayakarthikeyan informed Textile industries have commenced operation adhering to the norms set out by the Government. The Collector also visited the Textile industries and reviewed the preventive measures.  While speaking to FOB Coimbatore, Shri Raja Shanmugam,  President of Tirupur Exporters Association said Covid-19 lockdown had an  unfavourable impact on Textile industry. Closure of World Market had worst hit the industry affecting the livelihood of more than 6 lakhs people. Considering the welfare of the labourers and the industries, he suggested  ESI monthly contribution payment waiver for both Employers and Employees and financial support to the industries to settle the existing imbalance. However he said the Union government's  Samarth scheme became a boon to the weavers community in Tiruppur especially woman who gained training through this scheme.

 In 2017 the ministry of Textiles (MOT) Government of India introduced a new scheme titled "Scheme for capacity building in Textile sector (SCBTS) which is known as Samarth. The Samarth is launched with a view to transform the unskilled manpower to skilled  workforce  in Various  sectors like Garment, knitting, processing, manmade synthetic fibres and other unorganized  textile  sector including  Traditional  sectors like jute silk, Handloom, Handicraft by running the skill development programme in these sub sectors across the country.

Shri. Nataraj from Magilam Trust , Tirupur says that they are offering many skill training courses to enhance the Woman Self Employment Service in association with Central Government's Skill India Scheme. They are prioritizing handloom sector for it's growth and development.

Ms.Satya  from  Vellaikoil Tiruppur District says under the skill India programme she has taken the weavers training. It gave confidence and this kind of training is unheard so far  in their area  and  she thanked the Central Government for this initiative.

Ms.Gracy Angel  from Vellaikoil , Tiruppur too thanked the Government for the weavers training under skill India. She said after seeing her parents working  she also went for the skill training in weaving and  now she is happy to  support her parents .

Smt Jeyalakshmi from Vellaikoil Tiruppur says she was very much interested  in Handloom weavers training  and she utilised the  Central Government  initiative for learning the trade .

Though the Covid-19 lockdown had inflicted difficulties in the lives of people in the Textile city of Tiruppur,   the innovative skill development  schemes of union government had kept them confident and undeterred that they rise  above like phoenix bird flying out of fire.

 

 

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