Problems and Prospects of Textile Industry: A Study on Productivity of Large and Medium Scale Textile Industries

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This book offers an assessment of the performance of the large and medium textile industries in India, based on a case study of Orissa. While measuring the productivity of the textile industries in the organized sector, it throws light on profit and employment in the textile industries in the state and examines their prospects in the light of the demand for and supply of the textile products. As a prelude to the measurement of factor productivity, the book discusses the concept and methods of measurement of productivity and highlights and nature and pattern of industrial development in Orissa. Based on empirical studies, the book delineates the problems of textile industries â€“ financial, infrastructural and organizational, and offers valuable suggestions for their solutions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B. Sahoo

Dr. B. Sahoo (b. 1933), received his education at Presidency College, Calcutta; Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from Utkal University. Keenly interested in creative and critical writings, Prof. Sahoo has many publications to his credit. The most important ones are â€œWage Price Productivity in Leading Sectors of Indiaâ€, â€œWeaker Sections: Poverty and Developmentâ€, â€œInstitution, Structure and Developmentâ€ and â€œAnthologies of Oriya Poetry and Short Storiesâ€. Dr. Sahoo served as Professor of Economics in the Premier College of Orissa and Utkal University and N.K.C. Centre for Development Studies, Bhubaneswar. Currently he is the Director of the J.P. Institute of Social & Economic Studies, Bhubaneswar.