Smriti Irani to inaugurate 65th National Garment Fair in Mumbai on July 10

28 June, Mumbai

The 65th National Garment Fair, billed as the country’s largest apparel trade show and organized by TheClothing Manufacturers’ Association of India (CMAI), will be heldfrom July 10 to 12 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, NSE Complex,Goregaon, north Mumbai.

Minister of State for Textiles Smriti Irani, who will bethe chief guest, will inaugurate the fair while Anant KumarSingh, secretary (Textiles), will be the guest of honour onJuly 10.

Rahul Mehta, president of CMAI, stated that this B2B Fairwill be spread over approximately 6 lakh square feet area of theExhibition Centre. There will be 881 stalls displaying 1,005brands by 822 exhibitors. Approximately 50,000 retailers from panIndia are expected to visit this 3-day B2B Fair.

Besides expo, there will be three business networkingsessions, comprising of agents & distributors, high streetretailers, national chain stores & E-commerce companies, he informed.

Mr Mehta further stated that after some confusion anduncertainty for initial 2-3 months for manufacturers and dealers,the Goods & Service Tax (GST) will be beneficial to the garmentindustry in the long run.

Whilst welcoming the Government for having accepted CMAI’srequest to reduce GST applicable on job work from 18 per cent to5 pc, he said that unfortunately this has been done only up tothe fabric stage and it will not benefit the smallermanufacturers and again requested the government to reconsider toreduce GST on job working at the garment stage also to 5 pc.