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To create awareness among the silk farmers about the importance of silk industry and various types of programmes that were taken up for the benefit of silk farmers, the District Collector D Krishna Bhaskar released a poster to give wide publicity on the importance of silk industry and describing the various types of programmes here on Monday, on the occasion of the Grievance Day.

Joint Director of district horticulture and silk industry department Sridhar, District Revenue Officer Shyam Prasad Lal were present along with others.

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The Kakatiya Mega textile park coming up on 2,000 acres in Telangana’s Warangal district, foundation of which was laid on Sunday, saw the state government inking Memorandum of Understanding (M0U) with 14 private companies, who have come forward to set up units with a total investments to tune of Rs 3,020 crore.

Two institutes ¬- textile training college of PSG College, Tamil Nadu and National Institute of Fashion Technology, Hyderabad - also inked MoU for setting up their centres in the textile park.

Related Keywords: cotton corporation of India, establish ginning factories, exploiting cotton farmers, harvesting season of next kharif, old Adilabad district, private cotton traders and middlemen, provide cotton farmers, remunerative prices, Rythu Coordination Samithis, start cotton purchasing operations, Telangana state government

The Telangana state government has taken decision to provide cotton farmers remunerative prices for their produce, as private cotton traders and middlemen were exploiting cotton farmers while branches of the Cotton Corporation of India have become mere spectators. It will start its cotton purchasing operations by the harvesting season of next kharif for the first time, if everything goes smoothly and also will be establishing ginning factories in old Adilabad district.

Related Keywords: CCI, cotton corporation of India, easy transactions, enable farmers sell their produce, extent of cotton sown area increasing, online payment of sale proceeds, open hundred and fiffy business centres, quality testing laboratories, relaxation in CCI purchasing norms, Telangana state government, two fold this year, urged Centre

The Telangana state government has urged the Centre to open 150 business centres of Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to enable farmers sell their produce as the extent of cotton sown area increasing two fold this year. During 2015-2016 the CCI had opened only 84 centres, this year the farmers would be requiring at least 150 centres to sell their produce.

It has also sought relaxation in CCI purchasing norms as cotton gets discoloured to some extent due to heavy rains in October and November.

Related Keywords: assistance for proposed Warangal textile park, Centre awaiting formal request, envisages personal loan waiver, formulating a textiles and apparel policy, individual handloom weavers, Ministry of Textiles, process of finalizing draft guidelines of National Textiles Policy, Telangana state government, union cabinet for approval next month

Ministry of Textiles is in the process of finalising draft guidelines of National Textiles Policy 2017 and same will be sent to the union cabinet for approval next month, a senior official said. Telangana state Government is allegedly in the process of formulating a textiles and apparel policy that envisages personal loan waiver of individual handloom weavers along with other enticements.

Related Keywords: appeal to a wider range of people, bring out new designs, Government employees and public representatives asked, National Institute of Fashion Technology, NIFT, patronise handloom products, promote weavers, sport handloom clothes once a week, step towards protecting the handloom industry, Telangana state government, to get associated with

Telangana state government to get associated with the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) to bring out new designs to appeal to a wider range of people, a step towards protecting the handloom industry, said Collector Prashanth Jeevan Patil at the inaugural function of textile exhibiton on Monday.

Mr. Patil urged people to patronise handloom products and promote weavers as handloom formed a part of their culture. Government employees and public representatives were asked to sport handloom clothes once a week to promote such products.

Also, scores of weavers are dependent on this age-old industry which is slowly losing patronage. People should protect and preserve the handloom industry by buying products from weavers, he added.

With an aim to promote the use of handloom fabrics, several handloom stalls were set up at the Collectorates at Medak and Sangareddy on Monday.

At Sangareddy, Collector Manickaraj Kanan and Joint-Collector V. Venkateswarlu bought a few items and even wore them. It was also decided that officers should wear handloom fabric every Monday without fail. This was the initiative suggested by IT and Municipal Administration Minister K. Taraka Rama Rao.

The products at the stalls were brought from handloom cooperative societies of Jogipet, Narayankhed, and Sangareddy.

While, Collector Yogitha Rana urged government officers and employees to attend the Prajavani (grievance cell) meeting by wearing handloom clothes every Monday.

Addressing the gathering after opening a handloom outlet set up by the Telangana Chenetha Society at Pragathi Bhavan here on Monday, she said that orders were also issued to the employees at the division and mandal level to wear cotton and handloom clothes at least once a week.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had taken a decision to make it mandatory to ensure financial support to weavers, Ms. Rana said, appealing to the people to use handloom products at home.

The Collector also suggested the people to purchase clothes worth Rs. 500 every month by joining the Chenetha Lakshmi scheme. Members of the scheme would get a rebate on the same. With people buying handloom products they would help the weavers come out of their financial woes.

Related Keywords: drop proposal to impose VAT, levy to lead to harassment of traders, on sarees and textile products, Telangana state government, textile traders, TSFTA

The Telangana state government has decided to drop the proposal to impose Value Added Tax (VAT) on sarees and textile products, subsequent to its appeal, said the Telangana State Federation of Textile Associations (TSFTA) on Thursday.

Commercial Taxes Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav gave this assurance when a delegation from the Federation explained to him the problems that such a levy would result in, including harassment of traders, said TSFTA president Ammanabolu Prakash.