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Related Keywords: 5Fs formula, cotton textile industry, cotton traders, fabric to fashion, farm to fibre, Hussainiwala border, Punjab cotton ginners, revive cotton exports, Textile Park, textiles in Malwa region, traders and farmers

Punjab cotton ginners, traders and farmers upset over not getting big-ticket investment and technology upgradation for textiles in Malwa region. As Narendra Modi , while addressing a Lok Sabha election rally on April 25, 2014 had promised to take care of farmers of Malwa and cotton traders. He had suggested the '5Fs' formula - farm to fibre to fabric to fashion and fashion to foreign - to revive cotton exports if NDA was voted to power.

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Adoni and Yemmiganur towns of Andhra Pradesh have a long history of textile trade and manufacturing. The place is considered appropriate for the concept of fibre to fabric by virtue of the area being the major cotton producing zone, a major cotton trading market at Adoni and inhabitation by over 5,000 weaver families.

The government has issued an order earmarking 100 acres from the Banavasi Veterinary farm for establishing new textile park at Banavasi, as picturesque location between Adoni and Yemmiganur in Kurnool district, cheered the local people.

Related Keywords: Design sutra, developing Raghurajpur, help art and artisans, model crafts village. incubation centre, national workshop, NIFT, Odisha, promotion of handloom and fashion, proposal for textile park, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Textile Park, Textile rich states, Union Minister

Almost all textile-rich States in India have textile parks except Odisha. Considering the potential that the industry has in the State, the Ministry is keen on setting up a textile park here that would help the arts and its artisans, the Union Textile Minister, Santosh Kumar Gangwar said after inaugurating ‘Design Sutra’, a national workshop on promotion of handloom and fashion at National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in the Capital City.

Related Keywords: conduct feasibility study, cotton cloth, Cotton Lungi, Dhoti and Silk sarees, Gudiyatham textile industry, Textile Park, TN textile industry, Towel, Vellore Collector

The Textile Industry of Tamil Nadu has a significant presence in the National and State economy. Vellore Collector R. Nanthagopal in response to the long pending demand from the people’ representative and textile industy of Gudiyatham has directed the official explore the possibility of establishing a textile park in Gudiyatham.

Feasibility study will be soon conducted in Gudiyatham to set up textile park which will give to boost the growth of textile sector.

Related Keywords: cotton cultivation, Directorate of Handlooms and Textiles, export-oriented facility, Fifteen entrepreneurs, infrastructure facilities, Padalur, SIPCOT, Textile Park

The Perambalur district administration is in the process of handing over 40.35 hectares of land for Textile Park coming up on Tiruchi-Chennai National Highway at Padalur to the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) – the implementing agency of the project.

Perambalur district, a major cotton growing district stands to benefit from the textile park.

The agency has written to the State government for getting administrative sanction for the project. After getting the sanction, SIPCOT would provide infrastructure facilities to the entrepreneurs.

Related Keywords: biggest in the state, large number of looms, proposal revised, Telangan, Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation, ten fold bigger, Textile Park, textile segment, value addition, Warangal district

The textile park to be set up in Waranagal district, Telangana will be the biggest in the state as the proposal is being revised. The revised park will be in more than 1,000 to 1,200 acre from the 100 acres initially planned.

Warangal is one of the key producers of cotton in Telangana district. There are smaller units operating now. However, many traders take the cotton stocks to Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states for value addition. The district also sees large number of people going out in the search of livelihood.

Related Keywords: handloom and handicraft, lack of fund, MGNREGA, Santosh Gangwar, take shape, textile mega-cluster, Textile Park, Union Minister of state for textile, UP weavers and artisans, various schemes

The Uttar Pradesh weavers and artisans to see good days as various schemes will start taking shape soon, said Union minister of state for textiles (independent charge) Santosh Kumar Gangwar here on Friday. There will be no lack or shortage of funds for handloom and handicrafts as the Central government is committed to uplift the living standard of handloom weavers and artisans.

Gangwar is also in talks with UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to develop the cultural complex as a centre of excellence and bring other projects like Textile Park to improve the sector.

Related Keywords: annual conference, Indian textile sector, labour reform, Make in India brand, proposed new textile policy, Santosh Gangwar, Technology Upgradation Fund, Textile Ministry, Textile Park

Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Textiles Santosh Gangwar will discuss the provisions of the proposed New Textile Policy with States who will give their views on the proposals of a draft report on the New Textile Policy prepared by an expert committee which has already been circulated to them at the annual conference of State textiles ministers today.

Getting State Governments’ views on labour reforms is important as a number of important changes have been proposed in the textiles sector, said a Government official.

Related Keywords: announce national textile policy, draft textile policy, fine tune, garment sector, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Textile ministers of all states, Textile Ministry, Textile Park, Tirupur Exporters Association, Union government

A meeting of textile ministers of all states would be convened in September end to fine tune the draft textile policy, so that the Union government can soon come out with a national textile policy, Minister of State for Textiles Santosh Kumar Gangwar said at the inauguration of the silver jubilee celebrations of Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) in Tirupur.

A textile venture capital fund would be set up with an initial capital of Rs. 35 crore, which would be scaled up further, the MoS said.

Related Keywords: 12th plan period, allocate funds, capital subsidy, interest reimbursement, margin money subsidy, Modernization, powerloom sector, RR_TUFS, Textile Park

Under the Revised Restructured Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (RR-TUFS) to be implemented during the 12th Plan period, government has decided to allocate funds worth Rs.11,952 crore to bring modernization in the powerloom sector.