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Related Keywords: BJP MLA, Foreign direct investment, Ichalkaranji, implement textile policy, invite experts, New textile committee, Suresh Halwankar, Textile town

A new textile committee has been set up under the chairmanship of Suresh Halwankar, BJP MLA from Ichalkaranji, a textile-town in Kolhapur district to effectively implement the textile policy.

The previous committee consisted of national and state level textile institutions, business associations and bureaucrats, the new one has only bureaucrats except Halwankar, a second time MLA.

Related Keywords: jet looms, knitwear capital, powerloom weavers, Sircilla, Textile Industry, Textile town, Tirupur model

Telangana Government’s plans to develop textile industry in Sircilla on the lines of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, referred to as the knitwear capital of India, has resuscitate among the power loom weavers.
 
The town and its surrounding areas were rocked by a spate of suicides by the weavers due to crisis in the industry, unemployment and invasion of jet looms for over a decade. Replicating the Tirupur model for the textile town in Telangana can work wonders, only if there is an attitudinal change among the power loom weavers.
 

Related Keywords: Textile Industry, Textile town

Industrialists of textile town, Ichalkaranji being advised to recycle the pollutants by Magsaysay Award winner Rajendra Singh, during his visit to centrally effluent treatment project (CETP) at Ichalkaranji. He has warned them that not only the industries, but the river too will not survive if they failed to do so. As there are 68 processing units in Ichalkaranji of which around 10-12 processing units still not attached to CETP