– The government incentives in budget, FTAs, PLI, RoSCTL, PM MITRA, etc. will help apparel industry focus on market and product diversification: Chairman AEPC
Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) today celebrated its 46th Foundation Day at Apparel House, Gurugram. The event marked the presence of Chairman AEPC, Shri Sudhir Sekhri, Shri Rakesh Vaid, Vice Chairman ATDC, Shri HKL Magu past Chairman AEPC, Shri Gautam Nair, Executive Committee Member, Shri Mithileshwar Thakur, Secretary Genral AEPC and other AEPC staff members.
The event began with lighting of lamp and cake cutting in presence of SG AEPC, DSG AEPC and other staff members. Shri Sudhir Sekhri, Chairman AEPC in his address said, “Firstly, on behalf of the entire apparel export community, I extend my sincere thanks to the Government on the Foundation Day of AEPC. My special thanks to the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and the Minister of Textiles, Commerce and Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal for providing all help to the industry and an ease of doing export environment.”
Further Shri Sekhri stated that, “The government’s key initiatives such as FTAs with Australia, Mauritius and UAE, extension of RoSCTL, enhanced duty drawback, PM MITRA, PLI for technical textiles, etc. will help us to focus on market diversification and product diversification.” We are also grateful to the Ministry of Textiles for aggressively pursuing creating the ecosystem for the MMF segment growth. This will help us in creating new opportunities in the MMF segment, he added.
AEPC has been a major contributor in the export growth story of India through Buyer-Seller Meet (BSM) in different parts of the world.
