Industry Overview
Though floor coverings in India are one of the most ancient crafts followed
till date the typical pilled carpet more commonly known as the Kashmiri
carpet in India and oriental carpet internationally reached here in the 14th
century. Since then the carpet industry has developed leaps and bound in
terms of production, styles and patterns and so in the markets.
Indian carpet industry is primarily export oriented. Though it experienced
a major set back during 1996 -2000 due to the involvement of the child
labor, it has over come the jolt by implying special measures like "rugmark"
and "kaleen " labels that ensure the non involvement of child
labor.
The major carpet producing regions (including all types of floor coverings
and durries) are Agra-Bhadoi belt in Uttar Pradesh, Kashnir, Bikaner-Udaipur
belt in Rajasthan, West Bengal, Haryana, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. There
are 1215 carpet manufacturing units recorded and of that 190 are in the
organized sector and the rest are in small scale industry sector.
