Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has announced in the Assembly that State would grant Rs. 2.5 crore to provide infrastructure to those entrepreneurs who are interested to collectively come forward to set up micro textile units in textile centres.

This is to facilitate provision of electricity, water, construction of teleconference facility, marketing centres and common amenities in the micro textile parks set up out of the towns.

District Collector A. Gnanasekaran has convened a meeting of entrepreneurs interested in collectively setting up micro textile parks in Tiruvannamalai district. Assistant Director, Handloom and Textile Department S. Balasubramanian also participated in the meeting.

Mr. Gnanasekaran told the participants that suitable proposals to set up micro textile parks should have details such as type of the project, sustainability and feasibility of the project.

The proposals should be sent to Director, Handloom and Textile, 2nd floor, Kuralagam, Chennai.