India added an estimated 14 million new manufacturing jobs between 2018 and 2024, amid a post-pandemic recovery and rising informal-sector participation. Remarkably, five million of these jobs, more than one-third, were in ‘custom tailoring’ alone, according to a report

New estimates based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) and census-based population projections show that tailoring has quietly become one of the most important sources of manufacturing employment growth in India. According to a report by Data For India citing data from PLFS, NSO and population, nearly two out of every five new manufacturing jobs created since 2018 were taken up by custom tailors.

Surge After the Pandemic

The sharpest rise occurred after 2021, when tailoring employment spiked alongside a broader r

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