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CHENNAI: South India is fast emerging as an attractive destination for large apparel manufacturing units because of its favourable infrastructure, easy availability of labour and presence of weaving units. Nearly forty such units, each entailing an investment in the range of Rs.20 crore to Rs.30 crore and set to create jobs for thousands of people, are coming up in the region, Mohan Sadhwani, executive director of the Clothing Manufacturers' Association of India (CMAI), told a press meet organised here on Wednesday by the association in connection with the National Garment Fair that it will hold in Mumbai from August 3 to 5. A release issued by the CMAI said that already garment manufacturing centres such as Chennai, Tirupur, Bangalore and Hyderabad had accounted for exports of Rs. 4,000 crore. "Tamil Nadu is in the best position to grow rapidly as it has ideal conditions such as major ports, industrial towns and cities, and several textile and weaving production centres. Leading national and international apparel brands are opening buying offices, manufacturing facilities and marketing/trading depots in the south," it said. The CMAI leaders, including its joint secretary, Rajesh N. Masand, said the dereserved readymade garments industry, with exports Rs. 28,000 crore, would grow faster in the present quota-free regime if the required working hours and the inspection and prosecution procedures were introduced. The government should also refund the taxes paid in the process of garment exports, which accounted for 12 to 15 per cent of the end price of the garment.
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