Study on performance appraisal of shawl units in Ludhiana
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2017
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
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The present investigation was carried out in Ludhiana city. An interview schedule was
formulated to collect the required information from the powerloom shawl weaving units
regarding the infrastructure of the units. Data were collected with the help of pre structured
interview schedule from 60 randomly selected powerloom shawl weaving units. The results of
the study revealed that majority of units had made fixed capital investment of `40 lakhs to 60
lakhs and working capital investment between `20 lakhs to 40 lakhs to establish the unit.
Majority of units had installed capacity of 10 to 30 power looms and 60 percent possessed
semi computerized looms to prepare shawls. Majority of units used acrylic fiber as raw
material for preparing shawls and they purchased the yarn from local market. Most of units
had employed total number of 40 to 80 workers. All the units produced plain shawls and
majority of units had annual production of plain shawls between `60,000-90,000. Majority of
units were selling their products in the local market. Twenty five percent units had minimum
annual sale up to `50 lakhs. Majority of respondents faced the problems related to shortage of
skilled labour (weighted mean score 2.83), high price of raw material (weighted mean score
3.68), low profit margins (weighted mean score 6.50), lack of proper infrastructure (weighted
mean score 4.50), lack of power supply (weighted mean score 1.83) and maintenance of
looms (weighted mean score 1.16)
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