Tirupur will help Orissa in setting up new manufacturing units. This also means the Tirupur knitwear industry will get skilled workers from Orissa rather than untrained laborers.

Experts from Tirupur have visited Orissa to oversee the training programs and suggest changes that need to be incorporated to suit knitwear production.

The idea for this initiative came in the wake of an increase in the flow of laborers from Orissa to Tirupur during recent times, but at the same time these workers were found not to be fully suited for the specific needs that were expected by the apparel manufacturers in Tirupur.

As a result many workers from Orissa wound up doing unskilled work and eventually were found moving to other clusters.

The initiative will thus provide an impetus to the apparel cluster in Tirupur, which does not have to train a rookie worker to cater to the specific needs in the production process and at the same time the trained workforce in Orissa will gets quality employment.

Orissa’s textile policy offers a 60 per cent subsidy on building and common facilities, 25 per cent subsidy for new machinery, Rs 1 crore interest-free working capital loan, minimum wage of Rs 220 for eight hours and a reimbursement of Rs 1,500 for new factories, giving employment for new laborers.