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In this interview, Vinod Kumar Gupta, MD, Dollar Industries Ltd, says that the work from home (WFH) norm and the prevailing pandemic are helping athleisure/comfort wear gain immense popularity.

Dark clouds of lockdown are back with the Tsunami of Covid 19 cases resurfacing across the country. With major textile producing states – Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat – under lockdown, the industry is staring at huge losses again this year.

The state government imposed a state-wide lockdown allowing only construction and manufacturing activities to take place. The KEA has requested for garment factories to function with COVID-19 measures and 50% attendance.

COVID-19 has severely affected the garment industry, with exports dropping and 20% of people losing their jobs. AEPC has requested the government for an essential service tag that will free them from lockdowns.

Despite being the second-largest textile manufacturer in the world, India faces many challenges and competition, which can be resolved with central government incentives, structural reforms and lower import duty.

Being a large manufacturer and exporter, the Indian textile industry has consistently been looked forward to – in terms of product, manufacturing processes and channels of sale.