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TN textile units facing skilled labour shortage
A once thriving business in Tamil Nadu, the Kancheepuram silk weaving looms are witnessing acute shortage of skilled labour. The reason, the weavers of the silk city are leaving for more lucrative jobs in the newly developed manufacturing factories of Sriperumbatur, reports CNBC-TV18’s Divya Rajagopal and Krupali Pandit Yadav.
Labour shortage has hit the textile units in the silk city of Tamil Nadu. Kancheepuram weavers are abandoning their ancestral occupation for jobs at Nokia, reports CNBC-TV18's Divya Rajagopal and Krupali Pandit Yadav.
Flextronics , These companies have become a major attraction to the villagers. Close to 20,000 people have shifted to these factories. Organized textile units are also facing this brunt of labour shortage. With the appreciation of the rupee the textile mills owners are finding it hard to increase the wage.
Manikam Ramaswami of Southern Industrial Mills Association said, "There is a limit to what textile industry can pay and precisely for this reason the textile industry is moving from west to east, if we increase our cost say beyond USD 4 then the textile industry cannot stay in India."
The private handloom owners are slowly coming to terms with this change. The only option which they see right now is to retain the present work force by giving a hike that would come close to what the manufacturing units are paying.
A lucrative salary and a white collared job is what's making the weavers of Kancheepuram abandon their ancestral occupation, and as the textile industry as a whole takes a beating, the new generation from the weaving families prefer to work in a Flexrtronics or a Nokia factory rather than bargain for a better wage with the handloom owners.
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