The textile industry of India plays a substantial role in the Indian economy, but at the same time, its implication on the SDGs is quite diverse.

Economic Growth and Employment:
This is particularly so in providing the large employment opportunities among women and rural dwellers through SDG 1 and 8 whose direct effects scrutinized here determine textile’s impacts on employment and poverty eradication.

Export Revenue:
Being a major exporter of Textiles and garments SDG 8 contributes a lot to India’s foreign exchange earning.

-Traditional Crafts and Cultural Heritage: The industry preserves arts and crafts creations hence preserving culture and skill (SDG 8, 11).

Negative Impacts:

-Environmental Impact: Manufacturing of textile is an unrelenting process that requires enormous water, leading to widespread pollution and green house emission that causes climate change (SDG 6/12/13).

-Social Issues: Fears for the welfare of workers and their pay, hours, and conditions in some segments of the food value chain (SDG 8 and 12) remain valid.

-Sustainable Consumption and Production: The industries’ common that promote, fast fashion and high consumption, increase waste and degradation of the environment, SDG 12.

Changes:

Sustainable production practices are one of the most significant concepts in industries and markets of the contemporary world.

-Water Conservation: Installing closed-loop water system and using water efficient technologies for storing rain water.
– Renewable Energy: To curb emissions of carbon, the use of energy from natural sources for instance, solar energy.
-Waste Reduction: Reduction of wastage of cloth through recycling them, up cycling and promoting circular economic systems.

Social Responsibility
-Fair Labor Practices: In other words, labour standards, including remunerations, working condition and the rights of workers, in the supply chain.

-Empowering Women: In Egypt, ambitions among women in leadership positions in the textile sector.

Sustainable Consumption:

-Promoting Sustainable Fashion: Getting consumers to purchase fewer items, but better quality and supporting the sustainable and ethical brands.
Raising Awareness: Informed consumer awareness regarding the negative effects that consumers clothing have on the environment and the society.