Over 150 buyers and buying agencies from various countries would participate in a two-day unique reverse buyer-seller meet ‘Global India Textile Show’, beginning here from March 26, a first of its kind event in South India.
With direct buyers from the UK, US, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Moroco, Turkey, Mauritius, Egypt, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the event is expected to generate business enquiries of more than Rs 1,000 crore, Mr M.S. Mathivanan, organising committee chai rman, told reporters here on Saturday.
Products like fabrics in the form of grey, bleached, dyed and printed for the purpose of garments pocketing, seating, along with home textile products and technical textile products would be displayed at the fair, to be inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Textiles, Ms Panabaka Lakshmi, he said.
Stating that India exported woven fabrics worth Rs 6,000 crore to Rs 7,000 crore, with a 10 per cent annual growth, of which Tamil Nadu’s share was 50 per cent, Mr Mathivanan said the event is likely to generate more than Rs 1,000 crore business.
The meet is being jointly organised by the Powerloom Development and Export Promotion Council and the Union Ministry of Commerce, with the support of the Union Textile Ministry.
Depending on the success of enquiries, the council would start warehouses in the European Union, like Belgium or Hungary and also Sri Lanka, so that materials could be delivered on time, he said. — PTI
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Diabetes Village, Coimbatore
Coimbatore Diabetes Foundation has opened a Diabetes Village, a lifestyle resort hospital at Marudamalai near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.
While hospitals normally dealt with acute care and management of complications, preventive care would be focus of the Diabetes Village.
The centre functions as a lifestyle resort hospital, enriching the quality of life of the affected.It offers diabetes treatment, diabetes master health check-up and management of all diabetic complications. It also has an obesity clinic a state-of-the-art clinical laboratory and also focused on hypertension, cholesterol and heart diseases.
The diabetes village mainly aims at the objective of providing necessary lifestyle changes. So far, patients were spending more on doctors and received very short consultation. So here, patients live with the medical team, said Dr. Sekar, Chief Diabetologist of Diabetes village.
You (patients) can walk with the doctors, play with them and may be dine with the doctors. So basically the idea of changing your diet and making you physically active is our objective, he added.
The centre would provide other facilities, including tracks for walking and jogging, swimming pool, tennis court, villas for treatment and rehabilitation, spas, meditation and yoga hall, music therapy and library.
These facilities attract patients from all across the country.
We can jog, swim in the pool. Here, we have all facilities of relaxation. I feel this is an ideal place for diabetic patients, said Raja Mohan, a diabetic patient from Uttar Pradesh.
While hospitals normally dealt with acute care and management of complications, preventive care would be focus of the Diabetes Village.
The centre functions as a lifestyle resort hospital, enriching the quality of life of the affected.It offers diabetes treatment, diabetes master health check-up and management of all diabetic complications. It also has an obesity clinic a state-of-the-art clinical laboratory and also focused on hypertension, cholesterol and heart diseases.
The diabetes village mainly aims at the objective of providing necessary lifestyle changes. So far, patients were spending more on doctors and received very short consultation. So here, patients live with the medical team, said Dr. Sekar, Chief Diabetologist of Diabetes village.
You (patients) can walk with the doctors, play with them and may be dine with the doctors. So basically the idea of changing your diet and making you physically active is our objective, he added.
The centre would provide other facilities, including tracks for walking and jogging, swimming pool, tennis court, villas for treatment and rehabilitation, spas, meditation and yoga hall, music therapy and library.
These facilities attract patients from all across the country.
We can jog, swim in the pool. Here, we have all facilities of relaxation. I feel this is an ideal place for diabetic patients, said Raja Mohan, a diabetic patient from Uttar Pradesh.
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