Category: YARNS
Country: India
Region: South Asia
Once the code comes into practice from April 3, it would not be permissible to produce, stock and sell yarns without a BIS certificate.
By: Express News Service
Surat | Updated: March 13, 2023 04:48 IST
Stakeholders of the Surat textile industry, along with the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI), will make representations to the Union Textile Minister Darshana Jardosh next week against the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) code to be implemented from April 3 on domestic as well as imported yarns.
In a meeting led by SGCCI president Himanshu Bodawala with different stakeholders of the industry, including Pandesara powerloom association president Ashish Gujarat, it was unanimously decided not to carry out protests but to make representations to Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Minister of Chemical and Fertilizer Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of State for Textile Darshana Jardosh.
Once the code comes into practice from April 3, it would not be permissible to produce, stock and sell yarns without a BIS certificate. “With the BIS code coming into effect from April 3, there will be a shortage of yarns in the market. This will also affect lakhs of powerloom weavers and labourers who will not get yarn to run the factories. The yarn prices will also go up, due to which many weaving units will be forced to shut down and even lakhs of textile workers will become jobless,” said SGCCI President Himanshu Bodawala, adding they will also make representations to Gujarat BJP president C R Paatil, too.
The Ministry of Chemical and Fertilisers had, last year, declared quality control on different types of yarns such as polyester continuous filament yarn, polyester partially oriented yarn, polyester staple fibre yarn, polyester industrial yarn and grey spun polyester yarn, effective from April 3.
“We have also come to know that if a yarn without BIS code is found by the authorities from the factory or any other units, the merchants would attract a penalty that will be 10 times the value of the seized yarns,” said Bodawala.
Textile yarns are processed and twisted to form threads that are later converted to grey cloth by power looms and sent to dyeing and printing mills for colour and finishing. The fabrics are then sent to Surat textile traders where they are cut, packed and sold in the markets.
Courtesy: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/surat/bis-code-yarns-april-3-surat-industry-body-union-ministers-8492640/
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