Covid Omicron wave poses shortage of workers to Apparel exporters leading to supply side woes

10 January 2022, Mumbai:

Garment exporters from Noida and leather goods exporters from Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata, are facing a shortage of workers due to rising covid cases.

In the Noida apparel export cluster, the return of migrant workers has completely stopped with 3,000 garment export units facing a shortage of around 3 lakh tailors.

With orders in hand from the US and Europe, exporters are concerned bow to meet their obligations Similarly, leather goods exporters are flooded with orders from global markets but rising covid cases among workers are creating a shortage in manpower at the units.

"Earlier, we were working at 70 per cent capacity. But now. suddenly, the flow of orders from the US and Europe has increased.

The migrant workers were slowly coming in. But the rising covid cases have halted the process and we are In the dark on how to handle the orders. We have taken up the matter with the Uttar Pradesh government as well," said Lalit Thukral, president of Noida Apparel Export Cluster.

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