Telangana: Sircilla Textile Park temporarily closed
Sircilla: El Parque Textile Sircilla has been temporarily closed. Textile manufacturers operating textile units in the park took the decision saying they could no longer get remunerative prices for the textiles they produced. The park was closed on January 2.
The main reason for the closure of the park is considered to be the fall in the prices of raw materials such as textiles in the national market. This created a crisis in the textile sector. Manufacturers said a large amount of textile has accumulated in the country due to a lack of exports, a stock that has increased since the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Textile manufacturers, who earlier used to get Rs 14 to 15 per metro cloth, now do not get more than Rs 12. The owners, in trouble due to rising prices of hay and chemical products, closed the park without being able to bear further losses. Additionally, there were polyester clothes worth approximately Rs 25 million found in the park.
Established in 2002-03 on 60 acres between Sarampalli and Baddanappalli in Thangallapalli mandal, the park employs 1,500 to 2,000 people. They all lost their jobs due to the closure of the park. It also operates 27 commercial units besides 165 industrial units. 1,475 modern sets of pins were used to cut the cloth into 115 units.
Previously, manufacturers relied only on private orders. To provide employment to the tenants, the previous state government had given orders for saree bathukamma, Ramzan and gifts to the units operating from the park. Apart from government orders, he also reimbursed the energy bills of mechanical factories from 2010 to 2014 as well as from 2015 to 2020.
Manufacturers maintained records of private orders as they received government orders. Now we were facing problems, because even private orders were very less. Earlier, Sircilla supplied clothes to Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Ahmedabad, Kerala and Delhi. It is now limited only to Surat in Gujarat and Bhiwandi in Maharashtra. In a statement to Telangana Today, Annaldas Anil, president of the Fabric Manufacturers Association of the textile park, said the park has been temporarily closed due to the fall in textile prices. When they were told that garment factories were closed in other parts of the country, they said they had closed the units because they could not bear further losses.
Informing that Bathukamma’s sarees had pending government bills worth Rs 150 million, he wanted the government to subsidize the energy used to produce the cloth, meaning it was produced in mechanical machines. In many other places, the cost of energy supplied is Rs 3 per unit. However, from here they charge Rs 8.
He said that these topics will be discussed with the officials in the meeting to be held on Monday.
