Ludhiana garment industry demand permanent expo centre

Ludhiana, June 1 (KNN) The Ludhiana based garment machinery manufacturers urged the Punjab government to allot them space to establish a permanent exhibition centre in the city.

The Garment Machinery Manufacturers and Suppliers’ Association (GMMSA) has joined hands with Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) to highlight their problems in front of the state government, reported TOI.

GMMSA chairman Ram Krishan said, “Garment machinery manufacturers and suppliers are facing huge problems as there is no permanent centre for us to exhibit our products and services. Every year, we have to use rented premises to organise the exhibitions, in which every participant has to shell out lakhs of rupees for putting up stalls to generate business inquiries.”

“Time and again, the successive governments in the state have promised to make a permanent exhibition centre for the industry in Ludhiana, but this was never materialised,” he said.

Urging the Punjab government to allot space for the centre, the association chairman pointed out that the industrialists were ready to bear the cost of construction and maintenance of the exhibition centre, and the state government should help them with this project.

Teja Singh, president of the GMMSA said, “A permanent exhibition centre is the need of every sector of industry in Ludhiana, and if such an infrastructure comes up in the city, crores of rupees of the industry could be saved from going down the drain every year, which are spent on organising different exhibitions and events.”  (KNN Bureau)