Analysis on Working Condition of Women in Garments Sector in Karnataka with Special Reference to Anekal Town

Abstract

India being the world’s best producer of textiles and garments after China and ranked second position. Indian textile industry is varied and multifaceted as it tries to meet all the diversified population and their demands. India is the chief producer and consumer of cotton as after China and USA. India’s garments industry has a speedy development from past few decades. The garments sector contributes extremely high income in terms of exports, and it is calculated that one out of six households in the country depend on the garments sector in direct or indirect way for their livelihood. However, the development of the garments sector is not going correspondingly with the upgrading in the working condition of the garment workers who are almost women in each company all over the country. The domestic apparel and textile industry in India contributes approximately 2% to the country’s GDP, 7% of industry output in value terms. 95% of handwoven fabrics globally are from India. The textile business is the second largest employment provider in India after the agricultural sector. Indian clothing industry dates to HARAPPAN CIVILISATION and is one of the ancient clothes manufacturing industries in the world. Cities like Delhi, Surat, Tirupur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Mumbai and Chennai are important manufacturing centers in India. In Bengaluru, the garment industry which is considered as the second largest sector in generating employment after agriculture has seen an unprecedented churn. Data released by the department of commerce shows that over 180 garments factories shut down between 2019-2021 in Karnataka, leaving approximately 32,560 individuals, 66% of whom are women jobless. In the six garment units that reported the most layoffs, 1870 men and5710 women lost jobs. All these six units were in Bangalore. It has been determined by studies that at least 56% of the working society in India have confronted discrimination of some sort in the working environment. Primary inclinations happen on the basis of: Gender, Age, Religious grounds and case1