With the fast rise in Covid-19 instances, textile buying and selling retailers will stay shut for eight days and powerloom factories might be closed for 15 days in Surat. The diamond industries within the metropolis will proceed to function with 50 per cent of the workers.
The textile buying and selling retailers in Surat metropolis have been closed on April 28 and can reopen on May 5.
“The shops will remain closed to prevent further spread of infection. For that we are ready to sacrifice our business for a few days,” mentioned Federation of Surat Textile Traders Association secretary Champalal Bothra, including that there are over 4 lakh individuals working within the 65,000 retailers in 175 textile buying and selling markets in Surat.
Federation of Powerloom Weavers’ Welfare Association (FOGWA) has determined to maintain factories shut from May 1 to May 15 after a gathering on April 30.
FOGWA president Ashok Jirawala mentioned, “The cases are rising day by day, and all other textile-related bodies have decided to shut down the shops. We can only run factories if trading activities are done by the textile traders.”
However, the diamond industries will proceed to function as there’s a rise in demand of polished diamond within the worldwide market, Surat Diamond Association president Nanubhai Vekariya mentioned.
“We have appealed to the factory owners to run factories with 50 per cent staff by following the Covid-19 guidelines,” he mentioned.

However, Surat diamond staff’ union vice-president Bhavesh Taank, has on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the district collector requesting that every one the diamond factories ought to be closed for 15 days to stop additional unfold of Covid-19 and the salaries of the diamond polishers ought to be paid by the manufacturing unit house owners throughout this era.