Tirupur, a small town in the state of Tamil Nadu, started off as a market
for raw cotton back in the day, has today become a strong base for the setting
up of cotton ginning factories. In due course, the local economy of this
South-Indian town gave way to hosiery cluster and is today known as the
country’s biggest knitwear cluster accounting to a whopping 90% of the nation’s
total knitwear exports. Let us take a
closer look at what is now known as the ‘Knit City of India’ and rightly so!