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Modern Machinery Is Not Enough

Vol. 19, Issue No. 2, 14 Jan, 1984

IT is indeed ironical that the silver jubilee of the Indian Cotton Mills Federation should have come off at a time when the industry is in deep trouble. The rich tribute s paid to the ICMF for its services to the industry may seem very appropriate to the occasion but they sound odd in the context of the marked deterioration in the industry's health over the years. Taking the public and private sector mills together, nearly 45 per cent of the total spinning capacity and 60 per cent of the weaving capacity is accounted for by sick units. All this has come about during the past 25 years. 

TEXTILE MILLS- No Tears for Traders

Vol. 18, Issue No. 45-46, 05 Nov, 1983

THE private sector cannot be expected to take kindly to the take-over of any enterprise by the government. And yet the take-over of the 13 textile mills would seem to be the most lenient way of dealing with the managements which had reduced these mills to the present deplorable plight. 

Textile Industry-What Next

Vol. 18, Issue No. 43, 22 Oct, 1983

The Union government's take-over of 13 sick textile mills in Bombay once again brings to the fore the various conflicting interests which operate within the country's oldest industry. 

Textile Industry-Putting Sickness to Use

Vol. 18, Issue No. 41, 08 Oct, 1983

Union Commerce Minister V P Singh apparently underestimated the influence of the Bombay textile mill owners' lobby over his party's government and has hence been forced to retrace his steps. The prolonged strike by roughly two lakh textile workers in Bombay's textile mills, organised by Datta Samant's Mumbai Girni Kamgar Union, has petered out. About 15,000 workers have been retrenched following modernisation in some of the reopened mills. And another 36,000 workers are yet to get back their jobs owing to the alleged sickness of 12 mills which are at present virtually closed. Maharashtra's Chief Minister Vasantdada Patil and leaders of the Congress(I)'s Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh, in their discussions with the Commerce Minister during the latter's visit to Bombay on September 26, pressed for government take-over of the sick mills. 

The Textile Puzzle

Vol. 18, Issue No. 39, 24 Sep, 1983

Cloth production has been lagging behind Plan targets and the Per capita availability has also been on the decline. The annual average for the last three years (1980-83) works out to only 14.36 metres (10.44 metres of cotton cloth and 3.92 metres of blended and manmade fibre fabrics). This is well below the 1964 figure of 16.83. metres (15.21 metres of cotton cloth and 1.62 metres of other fabrics). 

Textile Industry-Widening Gap

Vol. 18, Issue No. 36-37, 03 Sep, 1983

THE textile industry, burdened with huge stocks, appears to be undergoing a transformation. The strike in Bombay's 60 textile mills is estimated to have led to a production loss of 1,400 million metres, i e roughly half the annual output of the organised sector of the industry, over about an 18-month period in 1982 and 1983. But despite this fall in production, stocks with the mills at the end of May had risen to 166.000 bales (of 1,500 metres each) compared to 155,000 bales at May-end last year.

Handlooms Face Liquidation-Powerlooms Mock at Yojana Bhavan

Vol. 18, Issue No. 35, 27 Aug, 1983
L C Jain

A substantial portion of powerloom production of cloth, it is well known, is shown as handloom production. This is not an innocent error; it is a smoke-screen for concealing the cannibalisation of hand- looms by powerlooms. The resultant loss of employment in weavers' households is unimaginable; and one-half of those who lose their jobs are women since women engage in pre-weaving processes and, in certain areas, in weaving as well.

Textile Machinery-Slump In Demand

Vol. 18, Issue No. 26, 25 Jun, 1983

After registering a steady growth from Rs 95 crore in 1977 to Rs 259 eiore in 1981, the value of output of textile machinery dropped to Rs 229 crore. in 1982. The outlook for 1983 is not much better as there are no signs of improvement in domestic demand which is the industry's mainstay.

Textile Sickness- Finance No Cure

Vol. 18, Issue No. 24, 11 Jun, 1983

How sick is the cotton textile industry? Very sick indeed, NTC mills (112) and those run by some of the state corporations — accounting for nearly 17 per cent of the industry's total spindleage and 25 per cent of the loomage — are all on the sick list since long. In the private sector, some 25 per cent of the mills, representing nearly 25 per cent of the industry's total spindleage and 30.5 per cent of the ioomage, are said to belong to this category. Taken together, 45 per cent of the total spinning capacity and 60 per cent of the weaving capacity are accounted for by sick units. 

Cotton-Many Santa Clauses

Vol. 18, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 1983

Because of the long drawn-out Bombay textile strike, cotton prices continued to decline from the onset of the new season to December-end. In January they remained steady. And in February the cotton market made an about-turn. 

Textiles and Industrial Growth

Vol. 18, Issue No. 12, 19 Mar, 1983
Mridul Eapen, R Nagaraj

The latest Economic Survey points to a sluggish increase in GNP of only 2 per cent during 1882-83 '(compared to 5.2 per cent in 1981-82) owing to a down-turn in agricultural output and a slower growth in industry. However, while the rate of growth of agricultural output is lower by about 2

LABOUR-Minimum Wages for Industrial Workers

Vol. 17, Issue No. 52, 25 Dec, 1982

It was in 1946 that Bombay textile workers won the right to a minimum wage for the whole industry, a wage that was supposed to be related to the needs of a worker (rather, of the worker's family) and not to the capitalists so-called capacity to pay. The 1946 Award based the minimum wage on the diet recommendation of Dr Aykroyd, the then Director of the Nutrition Research Laboratories at Coonoor, which laid down a minimum daily intake of 2.600 calorics for an adult working six hours in India. Even at that time this recommendation was regarded as being too low. Given that (he League of Nations Nutrition Commission had recommended 2,400 calories the energy requirement for basic diet (i e, without work) for workers in temperate countries and 75 calories per hour of moderate work, 3,000 calories would be the requirement for eight hours of moderate work. 

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