Fabric Of A Nation

Jhini, jhini bini re chadariya, kaahe ka tana, kaahe ki bharni, kaun taar se bini re chadariya.”

- Chinki Sinha

Quoting these words by Kabir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day Textiles India 2017 at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on June 30. A collaborative effort by 24 export promotion councils under the Union ministry for textiles, with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) as industry partner, the initiative may even become an annual event. Around 1,500 exhibitors and 20,000 participants, including 2,500 foreign buyers and sellers, registered for the event. There were participants from the US, China, UK, Australia, Germany, Bangladesh, South Korea, UAE and Vietnam, among others. As many as 65 memorandums of understanding (MoU) were signed on July 1.