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Keen to set up textiles park in northeastern states: Gangwar
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 May, 2015
The central government has decided to set up textiles park in all the
eight northeastern states and would provide funds generously for the
purpose, union textiles minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in Agartal on
Wednesday.
"To boost the textiles industry in the country and
northeast India, the government is keen to establish textiles park in
all the eight northeastern states," the minister said after laying
foundation stone of a ready-made textiles manufacturing unit in
Agartala.
He said: "If any entrepreneur or any industrialists
would invest Rs.100 crore for the proposed textiles park, the government
would provide at least Rs.40 crore to the project."
The textile
ministry has been providing Rs.18 crore for setting up of one ready-made
garment manufacturing unit called 'Apparel and Garment Making Centre'
(AGMC) in each of the eight northeastern states.
The ministry would also provide financial assistance to run the unit after commissioning of the AGMC.
The
works to establish the AGMC have already started in five northeastern
states -- Nagaland, Manipur, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.
On Wednesday, the foundation for the Tripura unit was jointly laid by Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and Gangwar.
"Each AGMC would provide employment to 1,200 to 1,500 people in the respective states," Gangwar said.
"Handicrafts of northeastern states have immense global market. This sector must be developed.
"Sericulture
is another viable sector which also has tremendous scope to provide
more and more employment and to earn foreign exchange," Gangwar said.
The
textiles ministry recently announced a Rs.427-crore scheme to promote
geo-technical textiles in northeast India and that would be helpful in
stabilising roads, addressing the problem of landslides and preserving
water bodies.
Geo-technical textiles provide the functional
advantages of higher endurance and durability in roads, embankments and
infrastructure projects.
Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar,
while appreciating the geo-technical textiles scheme, said his
government is keen to implement the scheme in the state.
"We are
now studying the geo-technical textiles scheme. We can use the new
technique in making roads and other purposes. My government is also
ready to implement the other schemes of the textiles ministry," Sarkar
said.
Textiles ministry secretary S.K. Panda said his ministry
has also sanctioned Rs.3.41 crore to set up a silk processing and
printing unit in Tripura.
"The proposed unit would help Tripura
to increase the silk-based productions by more than three times of the
current productions," said Panda, who was the chief secretary of Tripura
before joining the textiles ministry in August last year.
"Tripura's
silk quality, production, sincerity and efficiencies of people involved
with this sector can follow the other northeastern states, specially
Assam," he added.
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