The office of the commissioner of customs and central excise during the last two months registered around 3000 units in the Coimbatore and Tirupur regions and another 2500 units in Salem and Erode.
The excise officials were unable to provide data on the number of units in these regions, which need to be registered.
However, a majority of powerloom units, which the industry source estimate at 80 per cent, fall under the
