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The Tamil Nadu Federation of Powerlooms Associations has powerfully condemned what it described arsenic a “misleading and factually incorrect” connection issued by a little-known organisation claiming to correspond weavers, regarding the Central Government’s caller exemption of Rayon Staple Fibre (RSF) from the Quality Control Order (QCO).
An urgent consultation gathering of the federation, comprising powerloom associations from Erode, Chithode, Lakkapuram and Veerappanchatiram, was held connected Friday (November 21, 2025) to sermon the issue. The Central Government precocious issued a notification exempting lone imported RSF from QCO norms.
However, a connection circulated by a weavers’ federation—an organisation that does not run wrong the powerloom assemblage and exists lone successful name—alleged that imported yarn and rayon fabrics meant for export had besides been exempted nether QCO. It further claimed that the withdrawal of these norms would summation rayon cloth accumulation from 15 lakh metres to 25 lakh metres successful Erode, Chithode, Lakkapuram and Manickampalayam, bringing happiness to weavers.
Members, led by State president L.K.M. Suresh, said the assertion was wholly false. They resolved that the organisation down the connection has “no transportation with the powerloom industry” and accused it of spreading misinformation. The federation pointed retired that accumulation cannot summation nether the existent circumstances, citing acute labour shortages successful the units aft Deepavali. “In specified a situation, projecting that yarn prices volition autumn and orders volition summation is misleading,” they said. The assertion that weavers are blessed contempt ongoing hardships was besides termed “condemnable.”
