In the aftermath of COVID-19, the Indian textile
industry has immersed itself in examining viable business opportunities,
further aided by Indian Government’s call to reduce or eliminate import dependency
on China. The timing is right to give a huge impetus to build a strong
portfolio for MMF textile products across the value chain. Success is more
likely to be achieved by focusing on technology-intensive, and by building
competitive advantage for better profit margins. 266 MMF textile products
including fibres, yarns, fabrics, made-ups, apparels, specialised articles, and
technical textile contributed to the trade-in US$ 389 billion according to the
global trade data of the year 2019. China is dominant in major part of the
textile value chain, and as global economic change occurs, an opportunity of
import and export substitution rises in the favour of the Indian textile
industry. The Government of India is promoting the country as destination worth
investing through removal of anti-dumping duty on PTA, special economic zones
targeting foreign investment, allotment of the budget of Rs. 1,480 crore for a
national technical textile mission. Read More
Dr. Vipul Saxena, Executive Vice President- Group HR, Sutlej Textiles and Industries Ltd.
With changing times, globalisation of
business has given employees exposure to Human Resource Management practices
and its positive impacts on Employee Engagement, Employee Performance and its
direct relationship to Organisational Performance.
One very important feature that has
emerged out of this learning is that its not only Employee Engagement but Employee
Well-being which actually leads to enhanced Employee Performance. Employee
Engagement only yields certain level of job satisfaction through role clarity,
responsibility, accountability, clarity of vision & mission of the organisation
through transparent internal & two way communication. Wheras Employee Well-being
is stage ahead of Employee Engagement where employees feel that their physical,
mental, psychological health are considered as organisational concerns, which make
employees not only better engaged but also motivated. This results in further
improvement in employee performance, retention and sense of reciprocation towardsorganisation.
Workplace emotion is one
of the key factors which effect employee well being. Workplace emotions are part
of working environment affecting employee's emotions due to company policies, leader’s
attitude, working relationships, office environment, inter-personal
relationships which impact employee’s emotional levels both positively or
negatively.Therefore, the extent to which company’s HR policies are employee
friendly & employee caring will impact employee well being and emotional
levels positively.
The role of leadership is pivotal in
an organisation set to achieve enhanced employee engagement through employee
well being. Therefore, globally Leadership styles too have gone through change/
in transition from Autocratic to Participative/Collaborative leadershi.
At an emotional
level, if the boss is empathetic to his or her team members, it triggers positive
emotional level leading to employees feeling motivated and better engaged; they
feel that there is someone whom they can confide about working comfort / personal
matters and someone who cares for their emotional needs. Hence, It is the one
of the key responsibilities of Leader to make & keep work place Emotionally
Intelligent (EI).
It is prudent to understand that in
changing times, along with need for Emotionally Intelligent(EI)
work place, it is also expected to be Socially Intelligent(SI). It
is believed that EI alone cannot lead to achieving Employee Well-being.
SI is defined as Team member’s bonding among each other and with Leader Socially.
In the upcoming post-COVID
challenging times, role of leaders in terms of EI & SI quotient will play
very important role in restoring team synergy under altered emotional
stress levels of employees, through empathetic personal conduct & driving innovative
interventions across levels.
We hear a lot about women empowerment,
gender equality, and feminism as it makes you look cool! However it only
remains an office fancy. I urge the men to ponder and try to take a bit back
home.
It’s fascinating to see a working women
cooking at 5 AM, putting the child on the school bus at 7 AM, hanging on the local
train at 8 AM and showing up for a corporate meeting at 9 AM as decked up and
refreshing as she can be, showing no signs of being tired.
Women don’t need to be empowered…They
already are way too powerful. A little encouragement would be good though.
Today there is a growing fad in women to
try to prove that they can do every job a man can.. we need to sit back and
understand that we were born to do things a man can’t do.
Just be yourself!
We need to believe and put efforts in doing
what each one of us is best at! We can do everything brilliantly!
We create, we nourish, and we give life! We
turn a house into a home.
We don’t need a special treatment....Just
an equal one!
We don’t need to be over compensated, just
equally compensated.
In us lies the future of the families,
communities and the country.
Let us do more of that but also not forget
ourselves, our purpose, our dreams, our goals, our cherished small desires that
are long forgotten, our fears that we always wanted to overcome and above all
our health.
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish
every women @ Sutlej a very happy women’s day and every man to help her become
one!
Go out and live your dreams, unleash your
potential, face your fears and turn your dreams into a reality!!
The guiding
principle for the youth to be successful is to have an optimistic attitude,
determination to achieve the goal and work with integrity. In this modern globalised
world, our age-old Indian Ideology is still relevant and powerful.
Today, the
youth is more informed and empowered to achieve their desired goal. Youth
should work earnestly to acquire necessary skillsets, pursue with full
capability to achieve the desired goal. Even in adverse conditions, one should
not deviate from the principles laid for success. Firm Determination, Work
Integrity, and Optimism will assist an individual to navigate the challenging
and adverse environment with ease to achieve the desired objective.
Youth
should not follow the herd mentality and take shortcuts to success. Instead believe
in hard work and possess determination to achieve the set objective. The
success achieved by hard work and work integrity is more fulfilling experience
not only in professional life but also at a personal level.
Mr. SK Khandelia
as a business leader not only lives by these principles but also takes every
opportunity to guide youth to follow these principles to achieve success in
professional and personal life.
India is
continuously developing its textile traditions and bringing exceptional
innovations in the textile industry. Indian yarns and fabrics are known for
their excellent quality and versatility. History of textiles in India is so enriched
that today India has become one of the most promising manmade textile
manufacturers in the world. Indian manmade fibers industry is vast, vibrant,
modern and continuously growing. Currently, India is producing 2655 million kgs
of yarns, 1263 million kgs of manmade fibers and 27889 million square meters of
fabric every year. The Indian government is also working to raise the reputation
of Indian textiles globally.
The
Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) is one of the
oldest Export Promotion Council in India, sponsored by Indian govt.,
established in 1954 to promote the Indian exporters who fabricate manmade fibers
and textiles. SRTEPC has developed a 20 point strategy in which they included
the factors such as making raw materials to be made available at international
price, bringing in fibers neutrality, considering textile merchant exporters as
a manufacturer exporter, lowering interest rates, WTO-compatible schemes and
branding to expand the manmade Indian textiles at the global scale. This
council mainly focuses on the production of biodegradable and synthetic
products.
Every year,
the council distributes awards to its member exporters to appreciate their
accomplishment in the export of products that comprised under the purview of
the council. This award custom was inaugurated in the year 1972 to grant
certification to the exporters for their exemplary service in the field of
manmade fibers textiles. SRTEPC award acknowledges the exporters that are
performing as an inspiration to the other members.
We, SutlejTextiles and Industries Limited, devoted towards manufacturing noteworthy gamut
of yarns, have been rewarded with the Gold Award at the award function for the
category “Synthetic Dyed Spun Yarn Gold Award for Highest Exports in the Year
2018-2019”. We were acknowledged as the second-highest exports of spun yarn. We
are one-stop solution providers with an aim to set ourselves as a benchmark in
the textile industry and continuously working towards maintaining the status
that SRTEPC has given to us.
The luminous
award function of The Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council
(SRTEPC) was held on February 8th, 2020 at Hriday Lawn in Mumbai. Our honorable
minister of textiles Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani was the chief guest at the
function and all the awards were conferred in her presence. Applauding the
efforts of exporters, she said that in spite of invincible difficulties and
global slowdown confronted by the textile industry, export of manmade textiles
in India during the year 2018-2019 was of US$6.13 billion. She also added that
it was impossible to achieve such great numbers without the combined efforts of
the council and its exporter members.
Smt. Smriti
Zubin Irani also released a report on the study of “Promoting Growth of
Man-made Fibers Textile Industry in India – A Roadmap to identify gaps and
suggest measures” by M/s. Gherzi Textil Organization AG, Zurich. She said that
this report would help the exporters in both the export and production of
manmade fibers. She finished the statement by saying that the textile industry
will be motivated in the coming years from the acknowledgment of outstanding
performance by exporters in meeting the international production and quality
standards.
Shri Ronak
Rughani, chairman of The Synthetic and Textiles Export Promotion Council
(SRTEPC) mentioned in his announcement that our government has made a recent
budget for 2020-21 in which he is planning to inaugurate the National Technical
Textiles Mission with a four year implementation period from 2020-21 to 2023-24
at an estimated expenditure of Rs. 1,480 crore. He also said that 90% of the
fibers used in the National Technical Textiles Mission will come from the
manmade fibers and therefore this mission will be like putting a new life into
the manmade fibers textile segment. In the end, he remarked on the outstanding
efforts made by the members in the export front and congratulated them.
Convener of
the Export Award Committee and Former chairman of The Synthetic and Rayon Textiles
Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC), Shri Anil Rajvanshi added that it is not
only an award event but a celebration of hard work done by the companies.
The
Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) has the vision
to take the Indian synthetic and rayon textiles internationally at a
competitive level and make them sustainable so that they can serve equal
benefit to both industries as well as environment.Following the same, we at Sutlej are
dedicated to manufacturing a hundred percent biodegradable and environment
friendly range of yarns like cotton mélange, neppy yarn, polyester, acrylic,
siro spun, multi-fold, double-ply, single-ply, lycra twisted, core-spun and
roving grindle yarn. We are able to meet the exact demands of yarn buyers
within India as well as out of India.
We became
able to grab the SRTEPC award at the event because of our dedication towards
business with sustainability. Our textile product ranges from exceptional grade
yarn and fabrics to home furnishing and all are manufactured under the
guidelines of The Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council
(SRTEPC). We are able to meet the modern trends and customer’s expectations in
a highly environment-friendly manner and therefore The Synthetic and Rayon Textiles
Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) acknowledged us with their prestigious award.
Being a responsible and dedicated firm we are working hard to perpetuate our
position and become the winner of the SRTEPC award every year.
Towards a Beautiful Future With our Leading Industries
As we celebrate republic day, we are proud to announce that
it’s been more than 70 years since our company took over the textile industry. On
this special occasion, honorable legends of our country gave us our very own
law system; the constitution came into force on January 26, 1950. The great leader
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar contributed his efforts to the nation and shared his
ideology to make our country a better place, to make India one nation.
All the respect for our beloved founder Late Dr Krishna
Kumar Birla, who helped to start the journey of Sutlej. Our roots were set up
from Pre-Independent India, at Okara as Sutlej Cotton Mills Ltd in 1934. It
earned in those critical times (the time of undivided province of Punjab) as Asia’s
largest textile mill. At times like those, our legacy chose not to stand down
by any kind of hurdle.
A dream that Late Dr. K K Birla saw with the growth of the
country, by adopting the ideology of Babasaheb Ambedkar, to make our company world’s
leading and largest textile solution provider. During Independence movement in the
1940s & 50s, the company was reestablished in 1963 as Rajasthan Textile
Mills at Bhawanimandi in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan. From there the
production of cotton yarn started and later diversified into synthetic blended
yarn.
After Establishment as expansion continued Sutlej purchased
all Chenab Textile Mills’ assets, bringing the facility into its fold. The
company emerged as a value added yarns business in domestic and export markets
and building sustainable unique position for us in home business. To enhance
our economy, quantity, and quality, we have installed modern technology and
commissioned captive power plants for more outcomes.
As a small token of gratitude for our hard work to put a
smile on our customers’ face, we, Sutlej Textiles received, “Bhamashah Samman”,
“TEXPROCIL”, and “SRTEPC” for best export performance of spun yarn, and for contribution
towards our customers’ satisfaction. We take these achievements as inspiration,
and look forward to receive more. Our company is emerging as “One Stop Textile
Solutions”, and it presents the largest product portfolio of Spun dyed, Cotton
blended, and Dyed yarns. These appreciations show us that we are moving forward
with the leading generation.
As we grew over the time, we expanded the spindle capacity
as well as evolving designs for consumers; our company built its manufacturing
mills in the states of Rajasthan (Bhawanimandi), Himachal Pradesh (Baddi),
Jammu & Kashmir (Kathua), and home textile fabric division at Daheli
(Gujarat).
With a clear understanding for textile industries, we
entered home textiles segment in 2006, our strategy is to form independent
environment by expanding relationship across countries in international
markets, agents, and dealers. The company has majored development and emerging
economies in over 62 countries. Our company has a strong reputation amongst
textile manufacturers in key markets like Turkey, Bangladesh, USA, Poland,
Egypt, Italy, Portugal, Columbia, Africa, South Africa, and Morocco.
Our renowned products that we produced are Yarns and Home
textiles:
Yarns: We are the
leading exporters and the largest producers of blended dyed Spun yarn, and
value added synthetic yarns in India. We are number one producer of Melange
(yarn in India); we process 25% India’s total capacity of dyed yarn spindles.
We had increased 8% growth in yarn production during 2016-17 & 2017-18. We
produce varieties of yarns like; 100% Polyester, 100% Viscose, 100% Cotton,
100% Modal and Tencel, 100% Cotton mélange and Cotton dyed, 100% Acrylic/Non-bulk,
Polyester/Viscose blends, Polyester/Cotton blends, Polyester/Acrylic blends,
Viscose/Cotton blends, Modal/Cotton, Modal/Polyester, Bamboo/Cotton.
Home Textiles: Our
Company’s fabrics are benchmarked to international ground with international
quality standards. We stand with the purity, consistency, and value of our
product. With an attractive and the best In-house design, we rule over the
heart of home decor with a thousand of options for consumers. We guarantee
quality product with the latest testing technologies. Over the years we made
trust and reliability with our clients, and they made us their companion with
their trust.
We are the company with a team of goal achievers, and we
believe, together we can achieve more than we are doing today. As our country
grows, we are committed towards growth with our customers’ expectations.