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West Bengal government is planning to generate about 10 million jobs in the state’s textile sector in the future, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at ‘Synergy MSME 2013’ business conclave.Inaugurating the six-day business conclave in Kolkata, organized by the Department of Micro & Small Scale Enterprises and Textiles, the chief minister said the government has generated over 200,000 employment opportunities through the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sector in the last two years. She said that in the future, the government plans to generate 10 million employment opportunities each in the textile sector as well as in the MSME…
Indore-based regional office of Union ministry of textile has chalked out a strategy for boosting technical textile (non-woven fabric) on a large scale in the region. This segment requires lesser investment and has plenty of export potential. Gaurav Gupta, Deputy Director from the regional office, said that recently a number of awareness initiatives have been undertaken for encouraging entrepreneurs for venturing into production of non-woven fabric. Till now only close to two dozen units are producing such fabric in Indore and nearby areas.“The establishment of technical textile manufacturing unit is easier as it requires capital input of only Rs 20…
Textile dyeing unit operators and exporters in Tamil Nadu are upset. An integrated dyeing park was to have come up at Punnam in Karur district but the plan has been scrapped owing to an agitation by locals who feared an adverse environmental impact.Exporters say Karur will experience negative industrial growth if plansfor the park are stalled. They have promised to demonstrate thepollution control aspects and adhere to zero liquid discharge normsbesides promising that the stakeholder would ensure that no ecological disturbances would result. But authorities say industrial effluents are being dumped in the river Amaravathy’s bed and that many dyeing units have subverted…
Chinese silk yarn, the lifeline of the Indian power loom industry, is now slowly creeping into the handloom sector. Over 99 per cent of Bangalore silk saris are made with Chinese silk yarn.Indian-made mulberry silk is hardly used any more. Import of cheap silk yarn from China, Taiwan and Japan, while increasing power loom production, is threatening to push traditional handloom weavers into poverty. There has been a 30 per cent drop in the number of traditional weavers from 1995 to 2010. There is an obvious difference between the coarse textures of Indian silk yarn and the smooth fine finish…
The Kerala government has decided to take over the land and machinery belonging to the defunct KunnatharaTextiles and hand it over to Kinfra following an initiativeby MKRaghavan, MP, who has been seeking the state government’s intervention to revive the fortunes of employees rendered jobless because of the closure of the textile mill.The Industries department has issued orders to facilitate the takeover of the land and machinery of the textiles. The MP said a multi-purpose industrial park would be established by Kinfra on the land. It was a memorandum to Industries Minister P.K. Kunhalikutty submitted in January 2012 that culminated in…
The Indian government has approved the continuation of the Catalytic Development Program (CDP) for the silk industry with an outlay of Rs 889 crores in the 12th plan period. The scheme will help generate direct and indirect employment for 9.24 million people by 2017. The core objective is to scale up production, particularly production of quality, bivoltine and improved cross-breed silk cocoons in the country through the cluster approach. The program supports stake holders in operations ranging from food plant cultivation to marketing of products in mulberry, tussar and muga silk. Technology absorption, investment generation, productivity improvement and employment generation form the basic…
Oswal Denims is planning its expansion. This includes introducing a couple of new technology related products in around three to four months in the market. “We are doing different kinds of experiments on dyeing and creating different kind of shades.We are trying to launch new trends that are unique. They are working abroad and available in Europe or Japan,” elaboratesAnamikaSengupta, BusinessDevelopment Manager, Oswal Denim from Nahar. The companyis targeting 60 million metres, itis already doing 40 and is comfortable with another 20 million metres now. “Our yarn and fabricsare all in-house and all the processing is also in-house,” Sengupta adds.…
Textile mills in India have sought several benefits from the textile ministry. Apart from a 5 per cent interest subvention, they have demanded extension of credit limit from the current three months to nine months in order to enhance their cotton inventory holding capacity. Mills feel that except for a few large players, almost the entire industry ends up buying a very small portion of cotton during the peak season of November to March, while rest is bought by wealthy traders or exported to competing countries like China and Pakistan. Mills are not in a financial position to stock cotton for…
A weavers’ organisation in Orissa has filed for a patent on a wall hanging designed with a new textile weaving technology invented by one of its members.Sambalpuri Bastralaya Handloom Cooperative Society filed the patent at the Kolkata patent office on the textile, which a weaver makes using a tie-and-dye method but without warp. At least four designs of the wall hangings made using this new technology have already been registered under the Designs Act 2000. Sambalpuri Bastralaya in Bargarh town is one of India’s biggest weavers’ cooperative with more than 16,000 members. The members are mostly engaged in the making…
A weavers’ organisation in Orissa has filed for a patent on a wall hanging designed with a new textile weaving technology invented by one of its members.SambalpuriBastralaya Handloom Cooperative Society filed the patent at the Kolkata patent office on the textile, which a weaver makes using a tie-and-dye method but without warp. At least four designs of the wall hangings made using this new technology have already been registered under the Designs Act 2000. SambalpuriBastralaya in Bargarh town is one of India’s biggest weavers’ cooperative with more than 16,000 members. The members are mostly engaged in the making of Sambalpuri…
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