Gujarat’s textile hub in Surat has started feeling the pinch of rising input costs due to the ongoing West Asia conflict, with several units either curtailing their daily working hours or bringing down their active production days.
Some office-bearers claimed that the industry was currently facing losses of around Rs 100 crore every day.
Surat city is among India’s largest centres for man-made fabric production.
The South Gujarat Textile Processors Association has decided to limit the operational days of units to five days a week instead of seven in a bid to manage rising costs, its president Jitendra Vaktania said.
“Due to rising costs of raw materials and coal, the textile processing industry in Surat and South Gujarat is facing a crisis,” he said.
Several units have also scaled down production cycles from 24 hours to 12 hours a day, impacting overall output, said Ashok Jirawala, president of the Federation of Gujarat Weavers’ Welfare Association and vice-president of the Southe