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LetsTransport is a new-age, reliable logistics platform aiming to disrupt on-time
delivery with last-mile efficiency. The company was founded in 2015 by IIT-Kharagpur
alumni Pushkar Singh, Sudarshan Ravi, and Ankit Parasher. It is a series-B funded, last-mile
tech-logistics solution provider for intra-state deliveries based in Bangalore. It offers reliable,
affordable, and professional services, structured to serve enterprises. Co-founder and CEO,
Pushkar Singh chats about the future of logistics in India and the company’s foray into the
textile and apparel sector.

Donear Industries, with over four decades in the textile industry, is one of the leading manufacturers of wide range of fabrics for the purposes of suiting and shirting in India. Rajendra Agarwal, Managing Director, Donear Industries in an interview deliberates about the new markets and avenues tapped due to COVID-19, expresses his views on the soon to be announced budget and the long term growth strategies for the company.

Improving consumer confidence levels, pick up in discretionary spending and opening up of economies are assisting Indian textile companies to tide over the COVID 19 pandemic with continued rise in demand.

Most of the textile companies have been under severe stress ever since the Covid pandemic struck Indian and the global economy causing economic slowdown.

Vikram Mahaldar, MD and CEO, OCM Private Limited, speaks on global market size for suiting and shirting fabrics, and performance of OCM this year.

In September 2020, Textile Secretary Ravi Capoor informed investors that the Government of India was planning to bring a “focussed product scheme” to incentivise production of synthetic fibre-based apparel and technical textiles.