Related Keywords: business hardly meeting sustenance, compounded woes of textile processing units, directly affected workers, market-linked problems, owners have reduced production considerably due to water scarcity, Sircilla textile units, water shortage in Sircilla
The water shortage in Sircilla has only compounded the woes of the textile processing units already in crisis due to multifaceted problems. This has directly affected the workers whose chances of getting regular work has already shrunk. Sircilla, once the richest town in Karimnagar district with handlooms, power looms and textile processing units whirring round-the-clock. There were over 100 units a decade ago, but hardly 70 are surviving now with only 25 to 30 functioning with business hardly meeting sustenance, said T. Damodar, a processing unit owner.
