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Indian Textile Commissioner Kavita Gupta To Speak At Planet Textiles 2017 Summit

India’s Textile Commissioner Dr Kavita Gupta (IAS) will deliver the opening address at this year’s Planet Textiles Summit to be held in Bangalore on May 24, it has been officially announced.

Dr Gupta’s opening address will outline some key approaches and new challenges in waste water management, which the Government of India will help the textile industry to address. She will be joined by experts on Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) from India’s textile wet processing sector, while leading brands such as Puma will outline their policies along with NGO Water.org which will discuss issues about water availability.

The summit is being organised by MCL News and Media in partnership with the Sustainable Apparel Coalitionand Messe Frankfurt. A key environmental issue for India’s textile sector is wastewater treatment, pollution and remediation, which have also been issues for the global textile sector.

Planet Textiles will also hold a special breakout session on wastewater in the textile sector featuring Tamil Nadu Water Investment Company Ltd’s Chief Operating Officer Sajid Hussain, whose organisation was instrumental in the zero liquid discharge (ZLD) initiative in Tirupur, which is India’s knitted fabric sector hub.

He will discuss experiences of the ZLD project and challenges such as how ZLD could mean generation of hazardous solid wastes which pose new disposal challenges for the global textile sector. He will be joined on the panel discussion by Stefan Seidel, Head of Corporate Sustainability at Puma Group who will talk about how retailers and the textile industry in general could roll out these guidelines across the whole sector.