This will be possible only if there is an attitudinal change among power loom weavers, say owners. Tirupur Stakeholders Forum website says entrepreneurial skills of the people, coupled with hard work and commitment to job made the city grow in leaps and bounds. Telangana Government’s assertion to develop Sircilla on the lines of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, referred to as the knitwear capital of India, has rekindled hopes among the power loom weavers. Replicating the Tirupur model would do wonders for the textile town in Telangana, only if there was attitudinal change among the power loom weavers, according to the loom owners. The town and its surrounding areas were rocked by a spate of suicides by the weavers due to ...

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