Salil Chawla, Director of DFU Publications, covered the Bharat Tex 2026 launch on March 11, 2026, featuring excerpts from H'ble Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh, Government of India.
Advocacy for trans-seasonal clothing approach to scale up volumes and in turn improve/shore up India’s apparel exports market share.
Scale holds the key for success; India must move towards higher scale, higher value and 12-month garment manufacturing to achieve a $350 billion textile economy and $100 billion exports by 2030-31, textiles minister Giriraj Singh alluded to Wednesday while addressing on Bharat Tex 2026 inauguration ceremony.
He also urged and exhorted industry to capture at least $200 billion from the $465 billion market access provided by free trade agreements impressing upon the opportunity thus created by the evolving FTAs landscape. “He made a very strong case stating, Currently much of India’s production is oriented towards summer garments, catering to roughly eight months of global demand given that scale does matter in this competition paradigm".
Going forward, the industry must build capacity and capability.
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MARKET PUSH: Need to make best out of emerging opportunities
He also urged the industry to capture at least $200 billion from the $465 billion market access created under free trade agreements stitched in the recent times and more FTAs/CEPA trade agreements/pacts are in the pipeline as India continues to be considered a trusted partner and given our stable macro-economic indicators amid global geo-tensions and young workforce is a big plus.
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Hope is here: Forward statement
On long-term ambition for the sector, he said India’s share in the global textile trade should increase to 14.7% from 4.7% now.
Need of the hour; He was categoric that India must diversify into technical textiles which in recent times has come up as a strong growth engine, value accretion/value-added garments and innovative textile products, the minister said such a transition would enable India to serve a wider range of international markets/to a wider world and augment its competitiveness/manufacturing prowess. Bharat Tex, scheduled for July 14-17, is a platform to connect Indian manufacturers with international buyers and investors already gaining very strong momentum, Singh said.
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Bharat Tex 2026 expectations
The key pillars of this show is that, event is an industry led initiative and will be organised by the Bharat Tex Trade Federation (BTTF) – an umbrella group of 11 Textile related Export Promotion Councils (EPCs) and other industry bodies as was well articulated by H'ble ministry that 'It is by the industry and for the industry forum'.
This platform already is shaping up well and this edition of the global textile fair is expected to witness large-scale sectoral participation of more than 3,500 business exhibitors from entire textile value chain Pan-India, over 7,000 international buyers from more than 140 countries and over 1,30,000 trade visitors and last two editions is a testimony of shape of things to come.
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