The Saurashtra Textile Traders Association (STTA) has blacklisted 70 textile traders from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal for allegedly defaulting on payment worth Rs 9 crore to around 20 textile traders of Surat.

The decision was taken in a meeting of the Payment Solution Committee of STTA with textile traders at the Federation of Surat Textile Traders Association (FOSTTA) office on Sunday.

Talking to The Indian Express , committee chairman Umesh Amipara said, “The textile traders who have been cheated are members of our association, and we have requested FOSTTA to take stringent steps against other unscrupulous traders from other states.”

Traders said around 70 textile businessmen were fleeced of Rs 9 crore in the last one-and-a-half years. The STTA has also blacklisted 16 agen

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