The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil) presented 56 awards across 32 categories to 36 companies this year. Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister for Textiles, presented the awards in Mumbai. The criteria laid down for selecting the winners included their export performance for the year 2017-18 with the weightage on percentage increase in their total export, breakthrough in the market and focus on product development etc. This year a category on generating highest employment was also added.

Top players received accolades in different categories. Vardhman Textiles was honored with six different awards while Trident and Welspun each got four awards. In the category ‘Other Fabrics’ including embroidered lace etc, Atlas Exports got gold and Alok Industries achieved silver.

Special achievement awards were given to GTN Textiles for yarn; Paramount Textile Mills for fabrics and Premier Fine Linens for madeups. Globe Cotyarn got the gold award for the highest employment generation as did BVM Overseas, the yarn division of Sintex Industries. It is pertinent to mention that 22 out of 36 award winning companies this year received the awards last year as well.

Texprocil has a membership of around 3,000 companies spread across major textile clusters in India.