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The first National Handloom Day will be launched by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in Chennai on August 7. This day has been chosen to honour the Swadeshi Andolan, which was launched in 1905 and Chennai has been choosen as PM wanted that the event be organized at a place which has more people associated with Indian Handloom, said Union Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar.

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Anil Rajvanshi, Chairman of Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council had a meet with the Union Textiles Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar over the rising ingress of foreign yarn. In a letter later submitted to the Ministry, Rajvanshi said that the Indian “manmade fibre industry is passing through a tough phase as the substantially high excise duty provides edge to Chinese producers to dump polyester fibres in India.”

According to him the domestically produced synthetic yarn is losing market share to cheaper imported yarn from China, Vietnam and Bangladesh.

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India’s new national textiles policy is being finalized which aims to achieve USD 300 billion textiles exports by 2024-25 and envisages creation of additional 35 million jobs.

The Textiles Ministry has set up an expert committee headed by Ajay Shankar, member secretary, national manufacturing competitiveness council for review and revamp the textile policy 2000.

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The government has revised its cotton production estimate for the current marketing year due to unseasonal rains and hail storms across the county from 40 million bales to 39 million bales. Cotton crop prospects adversely impacted particularly in the central zone, textile minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. One bale equals 170 kg.

The main cotton growing states include Rajasthan, Telengana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. Total demand is estimated to be at 39 million bales in 2014-15, compared to 41.68 million bales in the previous season.

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The Union Ministry of Textiles, Santosh Kumar Gangwar at the inauguration of 4th edition of Technotex, organized jointly by Ministry of Textile, Federation of India Chambers of Commerce and Induatry (Ficci), said that the textile industry is the second largest sector after agriculture to create employment opportunities in the country. He called upon textile industry barons to invest in the technical textile business, by calling it a sunrise sector.

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Central silk board has set up high capacity state-of-the-art silkworm egg cold storage plant at Mysore in Karnataka where up to 1 crore disease free layings (dfls) can be comfortably preserved in this plant. In effect, with this plant, the total storage capacity of the Mysore facility would go up to 1.5 crore dfls.

The new plant was inaugurated by Union Textiles Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar is expected to give a boost to the production of import substitute bivoltine raw silk in India.

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Union Minister for Textiles (Independent charge) Santosh Gangwar has put up a written proposal requesting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to connect the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme with the Textile Ministry. The objective of the proposal is to develop basic amenities in the localities of artisans and weavers to motivate them to continue their traditional work.

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The centre plans to extend the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) to textile artisans. The move aims to support artisans who are leaving the skills and joining the unskilled labour force, as the latter provides better wages. It is a step to boost to the handloom industry in India.

Santosh Gangwar, Union minister for textiles said that they are considering extending the MNREGS to the handloom weavers and artisans of the textile sector, so that they or their younger generation are not forced to take up jobs under MNREGS which offers better wages.

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The Textile Ministry is working toward resuscitating sick mills including the National Textile Corporation (NTC). The government wants to bring to profit a total of eleven mills of NTC in next three months. NTC had acquired 119 mills, out of which 78 are closed under the Industrial Disputes Act, Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar informed Rajya Sabha.

He was replying to a debate on the Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Laws (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2014, which replaces an ordinance promulgated some time back.

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Government is working out plans to speed up revival of sick textile mills, including the National Textile Corporation (NTC), a move that will generate more employment. This assertion came from Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar during his reply to a debate on the Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Laws (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2014 in the Lok Sabha.