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Karur generated around Rs.6000 crores in foreign exchange through direct and indirect exports in 2016. [9] Allied industries like ginning and spinning mills, dyeing factories, weaving etc., employs at around 450,000 people in and around Karur. On the international textile map, Karur has become synonymous with hand loom made-ups products. The ...
Karur is a part of the Karur assembly constituency and it elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years. [47] The seat has been won by the All India Anna Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam five times, twice by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and once by the Indian National Congress . [ 48 ]
Textiles. The state is one of the largest producer of textile yarns and finished garments, accounting for more than 70% of the national output. The department is responsible for the management of entire textile supply chain including facilitating resources including materials, land and labour, textile machinery, education and research and promotion. [13]
These workplaces were not numerous, especially in the rural areas. Each smithy catered to the needs of many neighboring villages and hence was overworked. The art of the goldsmith seems to have caught the fancy of foreign markets and Tamil made ornaments were shipped to foreign lands mainly from karur. [8]
The master weavers lease hand-looms and contract weavers. The hand-looms are owned by trade merchants who procure raw materials such as thread from neighboring cities of Coimbatore, Salem and Karur. [9] About 1500 workers are involved in the production of jamakkalams with women forming two-thirds of the work force. [10]
In 2007, a Guinness world record - "most expensive silk saree" was created by Chennai Silks. [5] It was worth about $100,021; £50,679 (worth ₹41 lakhs) and features reproductions of 11 famous paintings by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma.
Employers include the EID Parry sugar factory in Pugalur, the textile industry in Karur, and the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd (TNPL). TNPL is the largest producer of bagasse-based paper (made from sugarcane waste from sugar mills) in the world and is the second largest paper producer in Asia.