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Related Keywords: achieve its full potential, an Inter-Ministerial Synergy Group on Man-Made Fibre, exports and employment, help on textile industry, Indian Ministry of Textiles, production, set up institutional mechanism, Steering Committee, Task force

The Indian Ministry of Textiles has set up institutional mechanism which includes a Steering Committee, an Inter-Ministerial Synergy Group on Man-Made Fibre and a Task Force to help on textile industry achieve its full potential.

The textile ministry has set up the institutional mechanisms to carry forward the key recommendations which emerged from the deliberations at the Textiles India 2017 was held at Gandhinagar, Gujarat from June 30 to July 2.

Related Keywords: allowed conditional reopening of textile units, any direction passed by tribunal, CETP, chart out surveillance mechanism, engaged in dyeing and printing of cloth, last eight months for flouting pollution norms, National Green Tribunal, NGT, Pali district of Rajasthan, punitive measures, Task force, to be complied with, units had been shut

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has allowed the conditional reopening of 578 textile units engaged in dyeing and printing of cloth in Pali district of Rajasthan , with an assurance that any direction passed by the tribunal has to be complied with. These units had been shut for the last eight months for flouting pollution norms.

The Jodhpur bench of the tribunal, comprising Justice Jawad Rahim and member B S Sajwan, permitted the reopening of these industries.

Related Keywords: Ghanaian textile industry, Haruna Iddrisu, out-going trade and industry minister, priated textile design, Task force

Ghanaian out-going trade and industry minister, Haruna Iddrisu, has decided to reconstitute a Task Force on the Seizure of Pirated Ghanaian Textile Designs to combat recent negative effects faced by the textile industry due to trade in pirated textile designs.
 
Apart from this, another reason is the decline of Ghana’s textile workforce. The number of workers in the country’s garment industry has dropped from 30,000 in the 1980s and early 1990s to 3,000 presently.