The Hindu Business Line : Pune apparel makers to form SEZ

The city's 200-strong community of garment manufacturers, who make everything from shirts, trousers and bags to high-end lingerie, are now in the process of putting together a plan to form an SEZ and has sought the help of IL&FS, which has helpedupur's garment manufacturers to form an SEZ.

Pune , Nov. 3

After bio-technology, pharma and auto components, it is now the turn of Pune's clothing manufacturers to organise themselves to form a special economic zone. The city's 200-strong community of garment manufacturers, who make everything from shirts, trousers and bags to high-end lingerie, are now in the process of putting together a plan to form an SEZ and has sought the help of IL&FS, which has helped Tirupur's garment manufacturers to form an SEZ.

"We have already had two meetings and at least 50 members of the Association of Clothing Manufacturers of India (ACMI), western region have shown interest in coming together for such a project'', Mr Vasudev Jani, Regional Secretary told Business Line. The city is home to over 200 garment factories, which make between 150 and 200 garments each daily to supply to the domestic market and for large foreign brands.

The association has already been approached by landowners and is now zeroing in on Wagholi in the outskirts of the city, as a possible destination for the apparel park. "If we find the land on our own, we go ahead with it or we approach the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) for adequate land,'' Mr Jani said. The project is expected to take two years and cost about Rs 10 crore once the required 75 acres of land is made available. When the project materialises, this will probably be the first project that will be developed for and by the small and medium (SME) sector, without the benefit of financial back up from large corporate houses.

The region already has a fairly large textile belt such as Solapur, Ahmednagar and Kolhapur, which have their own distinctive textile traditions that has brought in global heavyweights such as Italy's Carrera, which is setting up a shuttleless loom manufacturing facility in joint venture with Belgium's Picanol in Mahrashtra. Carrera Holidings is also setting up a Rs 650-crore textile park at Chincholi , in Solapur with the capacity to process 2.5 lakh garments a day.

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