The 50 per cent tariffs on Indian exports are already driving them out of their dream job. They are now heading back to their homes in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh on the Ganga Kaveri Express. https://theprint.in/ground-reports/chennai-station-tiruppur-migrant-workers-up-bihar/2745825/
Orders have dried up, inventories are piling up, and factory owners can’t pay their idle labourers anymore. Migrant workers are the first to be ejected from the cut-throat price-sensitive export industry
The Tiruppur textile industry, which supplies one-third of India’s textile exports, has been suffering since the tariffs came into effect. Of the 2,500 export knitwear industries in Tiruppur, about 20 per cent have shut down and half have scaled down operations, said A Sakthivel, the founder and honorary chairman of the Tiruppur Exporters’ Association (TEA).