Erode: Over Rs 30 crore worth of business
has been affected in this major textile town in Tamil Nadu due
to the "unrest" in Andhra Pradesh for the past 12 days and non
operation of lorries to that state, R S Natarasa Mudaliar,
President, Erode Handloom Cloth Merchants Association said
on Friday.
He said textile producers and traders usually receive
minimum of Rs 50 crore worth orders from Andhra Pradesh,mainly
from Kurnool, Kadappa, Tirupathi, Chitoor, Pakala and
Telengana area, including Hyderabad, during Magara Sankaranthi
season in middle of January.
But this year they had received only Rs 15 crore order in
November and just Rs five crore worth of goods were delivered.
He said textile traders from Andhra Pradesh usually visit
Erode Textile shandy and purchase goods worth Rs one crore a
week, but had not done so for the past three weeks.
Lorry transport owners were also unwilling to allow drivers
ply to that state, he said.
PTI
First Published: Friday, December 25, 2009, 18:42