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As per an official release, India’s Ministry of Textiles organized an interactive Session with Foreign Missions in India for Bharat Tex 2025 at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, New Delhi. The event saw participation from 30+ foreign missions in India.
These missions included from Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lesotho, Montenegro, Malaysia, Mongolia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Taiwan, Togo, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Bharat Tex is a mega global textiles event being organized by a consortium of Textile Export Promotion Councils (EPCs) and supported by the Ministry of Textiles. Scheduled to be held from February 14 to 17, 2025; it is positioned as a global scale textile trade fair and knowledge platform. The event will be held simultaneously at two state-of-the art venues: Bharat Mandapam (New Delhi) and India Expo Centre and Mart (Greater Noida).
The main event will be held from February 14-17 at the Bharat Mandapam. The entire value chain of textiles, exhibitions pertaining to handicrafts, garment machinery and ethnic apparel will be held from February 12 to 15 in Greater Noida.
Bharat Tex 2025 aims to build on the resounding success of the first edition in 2024. Built around the twin themes of resilient global value chains and sustainability, the show promises to be even more vibrant and attractive than the first edition. It is attracting top policymakers, global CEOs, international exhibitors, and global buyers. A record number of over 5,000 Exhibitors, 6,000 international buyers from over 110 countries and over 1, 20,000 visitors are expected to participate in the event.
The Bharat Tex 2025 exhibition will feature dedicated pavilions for Apparel, Home Furnishings, Floor Coverings, Fiber, Yarns, Threads, Fabrics, Carpets, Silk, Handlooms, Handicrafts, Technical Textiles, Apparel Machinery, Dyes & Chemicals and many more. It will also have a retail High Street focusing on India’s fashion retail market opportunities.
The textile mega event will also provide a platform for global textiles dialogue covering conference, seminars, CEO roundtables, and B2B and G2G meetings across various key topics such as Industry 4.0, Sustainability, Global Value Chain, Investment, Trade among other areas.
Attendees can look forward to live demonstrations, cultural events, and fashion presentations, designer and brand exhibitions and sustainability workshops, and expert talks. Bharat Tex 2025 aims to serve as a unique and consolidated platform to showcase India’s full textile value chain, while highlighting its strengths in fashion, traditional crafts, and sustainability initiatives.
Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Textiles, Shri Pabitra Margherita graced the event as the Chief Guest.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister invited the ambassadors and representatives of various countries to proactively participate in Bharat Tex 2025. Describing it as the largest and the most comprehensive textiles event ever, he described Bharat Tex as a unique effort to bring the entire value chain of textiles under one roof. He highlighted the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian textile industry in finding innovative solutions for the challenges posed by the global textile industry.
Mr. Minister also underlined that Bharat Tex will reaffirm the attractiveness of India as a reliable, sustainable sourcing destination as well as an investment destination at a large scale for textiles.
The sector has the potential to provide large scale employment across the value chain and touch the lives of people across all social spheres. With innovation, collaboration, and the ‘Make in India’ spirit at its core, this event is an embodiment of the 5F vision of the Prime Minister- “Farm to Fiber to Factory to Fashion to Foreign”.
The textile industry in India, traditionally after agriculture, is the only industry in the country that has generated large-scale employment for both skilled and unskilled labor. The textile industry continues to be the second-largest employment generating sector in India. It offers direct employment to over 35 million people in the country. It is the world’s second largest exporter of textiles and clothing. According to the Ministry of Textiles, there were 2,500 textile weaving factories and 4,135 textile finishing factories in all of India in 2010. According to AT Kearney’s ‘Retail Apparel Index’; India was ranked as the 4th most promising market for apparel retailers in 2009.
Presently, India is the second largest producer of fiber, and is the world’s largest producer of cotton and jute. It is also the world’s second largest producer of silk. Other fibers produced in India include wool, and man-made fibers. Many of the foreign textile companies including Rieter, Monti, Marks & Spencer, Zara, Promod, Benetton, Levi’s and more have invested or working in India.
The session was also attended by Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Ms. Rachna Shah; Special Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Shri P. Kumaran; Additional Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Shri Rohit Kansal; Trade Advisor, Ministry of Textiles, Ms. Shubhra; industry leaders and officials. Ms. Rachna Shah also highlighted the role of Bharat Tex in the Global Textiles Industry.
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