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Gyaananda school (2026 CyberFair Project ID 8828)
India,
haryana,
haryana
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 30 student(s) from 12 to 18 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Panipat, the city of weavers, which fails to recognize its importance for being famous for war, has been overlooked. Before these wars occurred, Panipat was a famous textile hub which provided for the needs of the Mughal royalty. This tells us that Panipat didn’t emerge as a textile hub in recent years but has been weaving its future for more than centuries.
The threads didn’t just weave clothes but the destiny of millions of weavers. The city flourishes with tradition, culture, and manufacturing hubs, with a steady growth over the last 45 years. It gives a living to more than 60k weavers in the industry.
The traditional locals work with migrants from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and other neighboring states to cope with the high demands of the handloom industry. While the textile industry is shifting towards machine-made goods, a large part of Panipat’s industry uses modern power looms while still keeping the traditional handmade essence.
These locals do not only scale the boundaries of India but have made connections with European, American, and East Asian regions by delivering up to 85% of the final products made from textile waste.
After finding out that Panipat has been such a big contributor of sustainable growth in textile we began our research to get a deeper insight on the topic, when we discovered that connecting threads with rest of the world, then we skilled up our research with the help of our fellow schoolmates from grade 8th, 9th & 11th the number of questions not only increased but diversified.
Project Description: Recycling textile doesn’t only weave new threads but gives a new luxury to nature…
Indians are best known for their “Jugaad”. Before the concept of sustainability existed, we had already been practicing it in our households. This practice stretches back decades in our country, when we saw our grandmother taking patches out of our old clothes and stitching them into a quilt out of the memories cherished for years.
We have seen our old jeans turning into shopping bags, old t-shirts into dusters and mops. This made us realize that we never really felt the need to buy mops and dusters or totes as they were right in front of our eyes every time we needed them.
Seeing all these practices, it made us question if this happened on a large scale as well?
During our research, we came across one of the biggest sustainable textile hubs in India— Panipat, a small district in Haryana known to deliver approximately 62% of India’s home furnishing products, including bed sheets, blankets, and other textile items, along with housing about 30,955 MSMEs with an annual production value of a whopping 950 crore.
Panipat didn’t only weave a future of textile in India but also created a huge stand in the foreign markets and became the largest textile and recycling hub in all of Asia.
Panipat not only weaves stories of new textile items but also receives around 250 tonnes of waste textile every day from all over the world to give them a new purpose. It receives most of its worn-out garments from the US and EU. These regions also support the largest market for Panipat’s recycled floormats, creating a full cycle where the old garments are transformed into usable household products. In addition, these recycled products are sold in over 50 destinations worldwide, including Kenya, Tanzania, Australia, and Japan.