SATISH HANDA
Members of Carpet Export Promotion Council (CEPC) having strength of nearly 150 carpet exporters in the country which include over 50 exporters from textile town in Haryana at Panipat and remaining from Jaipur, Varanasi and other places in the country has decided not to participate in coming Textile Fair Demotex-2022 to be held at Hanovar in Germany in the month January next year because of utter neglect faced by them in past few years by the organisers of Fair. Talking to media persons President of CEPC Omer Hamid said that decision has been taken on the consent of carpet exporters in the country participating in this Fair in past years spending huge amount worth lakhs of rupees towards expenses while participating in this Fair in-spite of the fact CEPC is offering handsome amount towards subsidy to participants in this textile Fair.
Omer Hamid said, Indian exporters participating in the Fair every year display their products in stalls allocated them in a big hall having large number of stalls in it allocated them by CEPC for display of their products in the front attracting large number of visitors as well as buyers but gradually the organisers of the Fair started allocating the place in the rear as a result the number of visitors as well as buyers gradually reduced adversely affecting their sale in-spite of spending amount up to Rs 10 to 20 lakh towards expenses in participating in the Fair as such Indian exporters feeling neglected as well as unable to recover expenses has decided not to participate in coming Demotex-2022 textile Fair.
President of Industry Association and a carpet exporter at Panipat Vineet Sharma said, Indian carpet industry doing annual business worth Rs 20000 crore said, by participating in this Fair they used to collect good orders and new buyers in past years when they were accommodated in front hall but when organisers of the Fair started allocating them space in the rear their business was adversely affected and they lost interest in participating in coming textile Fair. He said, most of the exporters are hesitant to participate in coming textile Fair due to severe spread of COVID-19 in German at present.
