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Related Keywords: attract foreign investment, boost domestic players, develop skills, focus on creating jobs, geo-textile fabrics, growth of natural fibre sector, Indian textile industry, Make in India, modernisation, on the final day of Textiles India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, roped in to hard sell India, Seven union ministers

Seven union ministers were roped in to hard sell India on the final day of “Textiles India-2017” event, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attract foreign investment in the Indian textile industry and to boost domestic players urging them to focus on creating jobs.

Union Ministers M. Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Ananth Kumar, Nirmala Sitharaman, Radhamohan Singh, Mahesh Sharma and Rajiv Pratap Rudy took part in different sessions at Mahatma Mandir and urged the players to help and support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Avision of “Make In India”.

Related Keywords: Anandiben Patel, chief minister, develop skills, gujarat government, mega textile cluster, set up textile university, smart city, Surat hub of synthetic textile, Surat textile players, Textile Industry

Gujarat government to further develop skills in the textile industry, another important industry in Surat after diamonds, is planning to set up a textile university in Surat which would help boost its textile sector.

Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel on Sunday at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of 2,000-acres Diamond Research and Mercantile (DREAM) City here announced the setting up a textiles university at the proposed smart city- DREAM City near Surat.

She asked textiles players to seek land in the proposed DREAM-city on the outskirts of the Surat city.