India to Diversify Textile Manufacturing Beyond Tirupur, Surat into Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Jharkhand
Ministry of Textiles plans to expand manufacturing footprint into Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Jharkhand to ease pressure on saturated hubs like Tirupur, Surat, Panipat, and Ludhiana. Move targets labor migration and infrastructure constraints reshaping apparel supply chains.
India's Ministry of Textiles plans to diversify textile manufacturing into Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Jharkhand to reduce dependence on saturated traditional hubs like Tirupur, Surat, Panipat, and Ludhiana, addressing labor migration and infrastructure constraints affecting apparel supply chains.
Why this matters
Follows Ministry of Textiles' broader push to rally states and industry behind a $100B textile export target by 2030, signaling a coordinated geographic rebalancing of India's apparel base.
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