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Editor’s Note: LUXYORA is proud to be an official media partner of Bharat Tex 2026. This article forms part of our independent editorial coverage of the event, with no payment exchanged for publication.
Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh opened Bharat Tex 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, Delhi’s flagship convention centre, on 14 July, cutting the ribbon on a four-day trade event running through 17 July. The Bharat Tex Trade Federation organised the show with backing from the Ministry of Textiles. Minister of State for Textiles Pabitra Margherita and Textiles Secretary Neelam Shami Rao joined Singh at the opening, alongside textile ministers from several states who arrived for the first day of proceedings.
Singh told reporters on the sidelines of the event that this year’s edition has drawn more than 60,000 buyers and exhibitors from over 130 countries. The minister said he expects this edition of Bharat Tex to set new benchmarks for exporters and buyers. The Ministry of Textiles’ official release separately cites more than 3,500 business exhibitors and over 7,000 international buyers from upwards of 140 countries.
Nearly 90 per cent of participants at Bharat Tex 2026 are micro, small and medium enterprises, Singh told reporters. He said people from nearly 550 districts across India currently export handlooms, handicrafts, textiles and garments, many of them entrepreneurs who once assumed exporting was out of reach.
Manufacturing investment came up too. Singh pointed to a Taiwanese company that has begun producing stitching machines domestically, calling it a sign of growing investor confidence in India’s textile sector. He said the country has built up manufacturing capability in technical textiles it once had to import and is now a leading exporter of flexible intermediate bulk containers, the industrial bags used to move grain and chemical products in bulk.
Singh said an investment of one crore rupees (roughly £78,000) in the garment industry typically generates jobs for between 50 and 60 people. He named Bihar as a state building its textile manufacturing base, pointing to industrial parks and state-level policy support as the drivers behind that growth.
Eight states hold official partner status at this year’s event: Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Nine more states and union territories are showing pavilions of their own alongside them. Each pavilion gives overseas buyers a direct line to that region’s manufacturers for the duration of the show.
International visitors span several continents. Ministerial delegations from New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Cambodia and Brunei are attending this year, and business delegations have arrived from the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, the UAE, Thailand and Bangladesh. Representatives from the United Nations and the European Union are present as well, taking part in sessions alongside the visiting trade delegations. Across the four days, bilateral sessions are scheduled on the India-US cotton partnership, the India-New Zealand wool trade, the rollout of the India-UK free trade agreement, textile cooperation with Japan and talks with Russian industry figures.
Dr Rakesh Kumar, chairman of India Exposition Mart Limited and a core committee member of Bharat Tex 2026, described the event’s State Investor Connect Sessions as built to serve the entire textile ecosystem. “From the largest exporter to the smallest MSME,” he said of the sessions’ intended reach.
Organisers are projecting more than 4,000 business-to-business meetings across the four days, along with over 100 business-to-government interactions between exhibitors and visiting officials. They expect more than 30 memoranda of understanding to be signed, spanning trade, investment, sustainability, technology and market access.
Trident Group used the opening day to set out its next phase of growth under a theme it calls The Expression of Living. The company confirmed an investment of more than 100 crore rupees (roughly £7.8 million) into research, development and environmental performance, backed by over 17 patents and 147 trademarks registered under the group’s name. Dr Rajinder Gupta, a Rajya Sabha MP and Chairman Emeritus of Trident Group, and a Padma Shri recipient, said India has moved beyond being a participant in the global textile industry and is now playing a significant role in shaping its future.
myTrident, the group’s home décor division, showcased its upcoming festive collection at the exhibition. The brand unveiled Torani for myTrident, marking designer Karan Torani’s debut home décor collaboration, and also launched a second edition of its Shivan & Narresh for myTrident collection. Singh closed his remarks by tying India’s free trade agreements to the wider export push, telling reporters that the agreements are opening larger international markets for Indian textile products and strengthening the country’s competitiveness abroad.
Bharat Mandapam stays open through 17 July. The bilateral talks, investor sessions and Trident’s showcase will run alongside the exhibition floor of handloom, fabric and finished garment stalls from more than 130 countries. State pavilions from Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu remain staffed for the rest of the event, and the ministry has scheduled further bilateral sessions with Japanese, Russian and UK trade representatives before the show closes on 17 July.
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