Surat is the country’s largest centre for man-made fabrics. The city is known to all for its cotton spinning mills and dyeing plants. Roughly 60 percent of the country’s polyester cloths are produced here. The city is known as the Silk City of India for its production of the fabric. The business has a turnaround of Rs 5 billion in a year. Much of the fabrics produced in the city are distributed throughout the country. Cloth merchants of Surat are thinking of ways in which they could be exported. A textile park in Surat would be of much use in the scenario.
Textile and garments parks had been sanctioned for several cities in the past, particularly in 2012. There were several who had lobbied that a major portion of the funds should go to Gujarat because of maximum utilization of the government funds that the city does. A textile park in Surat would give much boost to one of its main breadwinning activities. Such a park would integrate the activities of small time textile businessmen who need much assistance in scaling up their activities. Once production is centred at one zone, it would be easier for rounding up stock for export to other parts of the city. Textile parks would have the requisite machinery and employee support that is needed for a large scale operation to succeed. Proper transport, elevators for carrying around raw and finished materials, fire safety and uninterrupted power supply which individual entrepreneurs fail to procure on their own. Employee restrooms, cafeteria and crèche have also been planned for such projects which would take care of the well-being of workers in these textile mills.
Much of the tasks in these textile parks would be automated and use of ITeS maximum in order to produce quality products. A textile park in Surat which is close to both the airport and the railway station would be particularly beneficial as cost and freight charges would be lower. The operations of cloth spinning and dyeing shall be concise and easy to execute.
These projects are usually developed as public private partnerships or PPPs. Big builders such as Rajhans Realty are roped in for conceptualizing the projects. Textile parks have been set up all over India to give the textiles industry a boost and competitiveness over foreign made products. They have been of much help in reviving this declining sector in several states.
