Textile job losses mount as 150 mills down shutters

Job losses are showing up in labour-intensive industries such as textiles, the country’s largest employer after agriculture. A total of 150 cotton and man-made fibre textile mills in the organised sector employing over 50,000 workers are estimated to have closed down in the last four years. If the mills in the SSI sector were included, the number would be higher. Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra top the list of states where most organised-sector mills have closed down.

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