Skills Requirement Analysis at the Production Floor in Ready Made Garment Industry

Abstract

Ready Made Garment industry has an over whelming presence in contributing maximum foreign exchange to Indian economy. The largest consumer group of the readymade garment industry includes the age group of 16-35, which is very brand conscious and gives priority to high quality branded readymade garments. Indian ready garment manufactures have various categories of products and to manufacture such varied products trained and skilled employees are required at the production floor. The study for the research is focused to know the training aspect at operator level of employees of national branded apparels manufacturing units and international branded apparels manufacturing units and to find the differences in their skills. To meet the objectives, three domestic branded trousers and three international branded trouser companies were selected in the region of Delhi, National Capital Region (NCR) for primary data collection. The study is done on primary data. This is an empirical research and data is further analyzed to know the gap in skills of workers at production floor of national brand and international brand manufacturing unit.

Keywords: Training, skills, Apparel Industry, Branded Apparels, and Production floor employees