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Garment manufacturing unit to be set up in Velankanni

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Workers to be drawn from tsunami-affected villages

It will provide employment to 25 workers
The production, initially, will cater to the local needs and will take up mass tailoring orders.

NAGAPATTINAM: The Development Promotion Group, a Chennai-based non-government organization engaged in the tsunami relief and rehabilitation projects has forged an alliance with United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) to establish a garment manufacturing unit at Velankanni in Nagapattinam district.

This was said to be the first tie-up initiative by the UNESCAP with an NGO in India to initiate a scheme on a partnership basis. R. Bhakther Solomon, chief executive officer of the DPG, said on Tuesday that the UNESCAP and DPG had tried to rope in private companies as partners but no existing company was prepared to come to Nagapattinam with a tie-up arrangement or to establish a new company with workers in the management as the town is about 340 km from Chennai and did not have proper road and power facilities.

As the efforts to tie-up with a company did not materialize as per the project concept, the DPG had started a public company by name Rose Fashions and Designs to overcome this hurdle with the staff, workers and members from the general public as investors.

The new company hadstarted work on Tuesday in Velankanni and all the machines were installed. Mr. Praveen Joseph, one of the company directors, inaugurated the company in the presence of all the investors.

The unit has been installed with imported single and double needle machines with the capacity to stitch garments worth Rs. 8 lakh per month or to provide mass tailoring support of Rs.1.75 lakh. To start with, it will provide employment to 25 workers on an apprenticeship basis and to another 5 as employees in various positions, Mr. Bhakther Solomon said.

Most of the workers were drawn from tsunami-affected villages and local areas in and around Velankanni.

The production, initially, will cater to the local needs and will take up mass tailoring orders.

‘The company is expected to break-even after 12 months. Once the break even is achieved from the profit, a portion will be set apart for workers as incentive and another portion for community service’, said Ms. Lalitha Kannan, one of the company directors.

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