Tirupur, India's largest garment manufacturing hub, employs illegal foreign labor!

16th September 2021, Mumbai:

Tirupur, India's largest garment manufacturing city, employs illegal immigrant labor. According to media estimates, around 20 Bangladeshi nationals have been apprehended in Tirupur, a textile town in West Bengal, in the last three months.

Surprisingly, some of them possessed false Aadhaar cards, while others didn't bother to acquire paperwork at all, yet they were still able to get work in various garment manufacturing plants.

Although Bangladesh's clothing manufacturing business offers more prospects than India's, Bangladeshi employees are drawn to Tirupur because of the higher compensation. In India, a worker may make nearly twice as much as in Bangladesh. A factory owner was reported in the media as saying, "If one individual succeeds to visit Tirupur and find a job, he would try to bring his friends and family within the following year." They communicate in Hindi and Bengali and blend in with other temporary employees living in leased housing. According to the police, they would fly to Bangladesh, visit their relatives, and then return to Tirupur. We don't dig any deeper when they generate Aadhaar cards. The garment units would solely focus on getting work done due to a severe labor shortage.”

According to reports, some Bangladeshis will have prior expertise and will work as tailors or cutting masters, while those without prior experience would begin by packaging and gradually learn specialized labor.

MP Muthurathinam, President of the Tirupur Exporters and Manufacturers Association, believes that a method to maintain track of guest workers is long overdue. “At the moment, there is no registration system in place.

They come here and stay in the accommodations of their choice.

Some people relocate to Coimbatore, Erode, or Karur. As a result, a state-wide registration of foreign workers must be established. “The State Government should provide them an identity card,” he added. In 2018, the local police started a mission to gather information on all foreign workers and build a database, but the epidemic and a lack of staff made it impossible to complete.

According to a police spokesman, now that Covid is down, authorities will begin collecting information on migrant workers.

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