NEW DELHI, February 24: In a major step towards encouraging India’s textiles-apparel-fashion industry chart out a sustainable path that keeps both the planet and its people at the heart of all activities, the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has announced the CITI Birla Awards, and the launch of the first edition of the CITI Sustainability Awards.

The aim of the awards on sustainability—the first ever by an industry body—is two-pronged: (i) recognise efforts currently being made towards sustainability; (ii) incentivise others to tread the same path. The broad objective is to trigger a cascading effect: that of innovation and pragmatic work. And, the CITI Knowledge Partner texfash.com says it all in its slogan: ‘It Ain’t Fashion,  If It Ain’t Sustainable’.

The awards are open to Indian enterprises, working across the textiles-apparel-fashion value chain, in India. Startups are particularly encouraged to apply.

The last date to apply for the awards is 6 March 2023.

Announcing the awards, T Rajkumar, Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry, said: “As the premier national body for the promotion of India’s textiles sector competitiveness and excellence, CITI has been encouraging best practices in various aspects of textile manufacturing since 1993-94 through the CITI Birla Awards. Starting this year, an attempt is being made to expand the areas of focus to encompass efforts toward Sustainability, Circularity, and Traceability of the value chain partners.

“The Indian textiles industry has inherently been very conscious of its social and environmental responsibilities, but better monitoring, management, and demonstration is what we aim to encourage through these awards. We want this to emerge as a complete value chain platform to share and understand more about the best practices on “Sustainability happening around us in India.”

“Sustainability and circularity are the two critical cogs on which the textiles-apparel-fashion industry must move forward, and India needs to ramp up its efforts to be a global leader. The fragmented and diverse nature of the integrated value chain makes the task that much more difficult. The CITI Sustainability Awards are a step in the right direction and will push enterprises to walk this path. We are proud to be associated with the awards as the Knowledge Partner,” said Richa Bansal, Co-Founder and Managing Editor of texfash.com.

In all, the five award categories are as follows:

1. A)CITI Birla Economic & Textile Research Foundation Awards – 2022-23
   CITI invites applications under CITI Birla Economic & Textile Research Foundation Awards from textile mills for achieving excellence in the following two categories:  

 

A.I: Contribution Towards Zero Carbon Mission by Textile Mills
To download the application form, please follow the below:
http://citiindia.org/img-uploads/2023/Q_Contributions_Towards_ZCM.pdf 

A.II: Achieving Excellence in Water Conservation by Textile Mills
To download the application form, please click below:

http://citiindia.org/img-uploads/2023/Q_Excellence_in_Water_Conservation.pdf 

 

1. B)CITI’s Textiles Sustainability Awards 2022-23 | Knowledge Partner: com 

CITI’s Textiles Sustainability Awards 2022-23, with texfash.com as Knowledge Partner, has three categories:

B.I: Award for Expanding Circularity
To download the application form, please click below:
http://citiindia.org/img-uploads/2023/Q_Expanding_Circularity.pdf

B.II: Award for Progress Towards Sustainability

To download the application form, please click below:

http://citiindia.org/img-uploads/2023/Q_Progress_Towards_Sustainability.pdf 

B.III: Award for Cutting Edge Retail Practices
To download the application form, please click below:

http://citiindia.org/img-uploads/2023/Q_Cutting_Edge_Retail_Practices.pdf 

 

 

About CITI:  The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) is a leading industry chamber of the textile and clothing sector of India, representing major regional & industry associations & 18 corporate members, thus, covering the entire textile value chain from farm to garments & made-ups and the textile machinery industry. It is the only National Association which covers the entire spectrum of the Textiles & Clothing Industry spanning both domestic and export market. CITI has signed MOUs with 13 international textile associations for promotion of textiles’ trade and investment. It directly and indirectly serves an industry that connects to millions of farmers, 100 million plus work force and 1.3 billion consumers. To know more visit: https://citiindia.org/

About texfash.com: The texfash.com project is a cutting-edge digital publication that explores the global textiles-apparel-fashion industry, straddling a line between journalistic reportage and academic rigour. With sustainability as its underlying watchword, the texfash.com approach is incisive, fact-based and research-driven journalism that is beholden only to the planet and its people. To know more visit: https://texfash.com/ 

 

Contacts: 

• Chandrima Chatterjee; Secretary-General; Confederation of Indian Textile Industry; sg@citiindia.org
• Richa Bansal; Co-Founder; texfash.com; richa@texfash.com