The South India Hosiery Manufacturers Association (SIHMA) and the Tirupur Domestic Garments Manufacturers Association (TIDGMA) will, in January next year, organise an exhibition of garments made in Tiruppur for the domestic market.

Apart from garments made for exports, Tiruppur produces T-shirts, inner wear, and apparel worth over ₹40,000 crore every year for the Indian market and several leading brands source garments from Tiruppur.

R. Dhamodharan, secretary of the SIHMA, said the SIHMA has nearly 675 manufacturers of garments and inner wear for the Indian market and the TIDGMA has 350 to 400 manufacturers of apparels. These producers make garments and inner wear for summer and winter. “We plan to hold two fairs annually – one in Tiruppur for summer wear and another in a north Indian city for winter wear. Tiruppur garment makers produce winter wear such as thermal wear, hoodies, and so on, apart from T-shirts and basic garments,” he said.

The logo for the event was released and stall registration began on October 9 at a meeting headed by P. Shanmugasundaram, president of the SIHMA, and M.K.M. Balasubramaniam, president of the TIDGMA.

The event, to be held at the India Knit Fair complex from January 3 to 5, will have nearly 115 stalls.

“We plan to invite retail chains, distributors, white label buyers, corporate buyers, and uniform producers to this business event,” he added.s

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Acting on a tip-off, a surveillance team conducted an inspection at Mulanur, and seized ₹40,79,150 lakh in cash from the residence of Viswanathan in the Thalakkarai area and ₹7,63,400 from the residence of house of Selvaraj, also from the same locality.

A total of ₹48,42,550 was not accounted for and would be handed over to the district treasury, official sources said.

Officials are investigating if the money is meant to be distributed to voters by political parties.

Precautionary measures

The Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) of Dharapuram, Felix Raja, in his capacity as Returning Officer for the Dharapuram (R) Assembly constituency, convened a meeting with owners of marriage halls at the Taluk Office and instructed them not to permit conduct of political events, as per guidelines of Election Commission of India.

Information about political parties or candidates attempting to book marriage halls, while the Election Code of Conduct is in place, must necessarily be conveyed to the officials immediately, the RDO said.

Farmers were arrested by the police when they prevented the work on IDPL (Irugur to Devanagonthi Pipeline) project at Poosaripalayam in Kandiankovil panchayat, on Saturday (August 29, 2026), demanding higher compensation.

Twenty four farmers – 12 men and 12 women – were arrested and detained in a community hall along the Palladam-Dharapuram Road, where they have been in a hunger fast till late night.

The farmers said they have decided to continue their protest at the venue, and that they will not move out even with the issuance of a release order.

After their arrest, the work was carried out under police protection.

The farmers, sources said, have decided to sustain their protest at the work site every day.

The proposed pipeline is planned through a private land to a stretch of 74 km in Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts, along an existing Right of Use alignment.

The Government had initially fixed compensation at the rate of 20% of the market value for the additional land, and subsequently increased it to 100%, as a special case.

As this revision was not acceptable to the farmers, the BPCL had agreed to pay additional relief of ₹5 lakh per acre, over and above 100% market rate, that works out to 125%, for both dry and wet agricultural land. As per the latest order, the compensation for residential and industrial land categories would continue to remain at 100% of market value.

Terming the compensation announced by the Government as a “pittance”, N. Ramesh, Tiruppur District Secretary of Tamil Nadu Farmers’ Protection Movement said the project will be prevented until the compensation is raised to 500% of the market value.

Two Bangladesh citizens, identified as M.D. Sohan and M.D. Nadeen Hossain, were sentenced to two years in jail under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act for staying without proper documents in Palladam police station limits in Tiruppur. Second Additional District and Sessions Judge R. Kanagaraj also imposed on them a fine of ₹10,000 each.

The Union government has set a target of $21 billion worth textile and apparel exports from Tamil Nadu by 2030, said T.N. Venkatesh, Principal Secretary, Department of Handlooms, Textiles, Khadi, and Handicrafts, Tamil Nadu, in Tiruppur on Sunday (June 28, 2026).

India is expected to achieve $100 billion export of textiles and apparel by 2030 and Tamil Nadu’s contribution will be one-fifth, and Tiruppur cluster alone would contribute nearly $11.5 billion. “This will be easy to achieve with the investments in research and development and free trade agreements,” he said.

One of the main demands of the Tiruppur garment industry was hostels for the women workers. The Tamil Nadu government has allocated ₹1,250 crore to construct “Thozhi hostels” in industrial clusters, and hostels for women workers in Tiruppur will be constructed under this scheme. A Centre of Excellence for athleisure (athletic wear) will also be set up in Tiruppur, Mr. Venkatesh said.

Union Textile Minister Giriraj Singh told the garment exporters at the meeting organised by the Tiruppur Exporters Association that annual exports of textiles and apparel hit the $44 billion mark only once since 1998. It is now at $38 billion and the target is $100 billion by 2030.

India has a free trade agreement with Japan. But, its exports to Japan are not much. Garment exporters need to diversify at least 20% of their exports to new markets, he said.