Lok Sabha Question No. 3265 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-12
Subject: Textile and Handicraft Policy
Ministry: TEXTILES
Asked by: Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3265 TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.07.2019

## TEXTILE AND HANDICRAFT POLICY

## 3265.  SHRI  NARANBHAI  KACHHADIYA:

Will the Minister of TEXTILES वस्त्र मंरी be pleased to state:

- (a)     whether the Government has formulated any Textile and Handicrafts Policy during the last three years and if so, the salient features thereof;
- (b)      whether the Government has set up textile and handicraft clusters at various places to boost such industries, and if so, the details thereof;
- (c)     whether the Government proposes to boost textile/cloth industries in Gujarat and other States of the country; and
- (d)     if so, the details thereof?

## उत्तर

## ANSWER

## वस्त्र मंरी ( श्रीमती स्मृ तत ज़ूबिन इरानी )

## MINISTER OF TEXTILES

(SMT. SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

(a): Government has been implementing various policy initiatives and programmes for development of textiles and handicrafts particularly for technology  upgradation,  infrastructure  creation  and  skill  development.  These include Amended Technology Upgradation Funds Scheme (ATUFS), PowerTex India Scheme; National handloom Development Programme; Scheme  for Integrated  Textile  Parks,  SAMARTH-  scheme  for  capacity  building  in  Textile Sector, Silk Samagra- integrated silk development scheme, North Eastern Region Textile  Promotion  Scheme  (NERTPS),  the  National  Handicraft  Development

Programme (NHDP) and the Comprehensive Handicrafts Cluster Development Scheme (CHCDS).

(b): Under  'Comprehensive  Handicrafts  Cluster  Development  Scheme' (CHCDS),  around  450  Handicraft  Clusters  have  been  undertaken  across  the country including 49 such clusters in Gujarat during the last 5 years to mobilize the artisans into Self-Help Groups, thrift and credit, training of SHGs on various aspects of forming and running community business enterprise. Under Comprehensive  Handloom  Cluster  Development  Scheme  (CHCDS),  8  mega handloom clusters have been taken up in a period of 5 years. Under this scheme, 31 block level handloom clusters have also been taken up during 20118-19 for over  all  development  benefiting  26,093  weavers.  Under  the  Comprehensive Powerloom Cluster Development scheme, five powerloom mega clusters are set up  in different parts of the country including one  at Surat, Gujarat for development of infrastructure and to boost production and export.

(c) & (d): Government has been taking various efforts through schemes/programmes to boost textiles and cloth industries including handicrafts across the country including in Gujarat. A special package has been launched in 2016 to boost investment, employment and exports in the garmenting and madeup sector. For development of Knitting and Knitwear Sector, a new scheme has been launched in January 2019 with an outlay of Rs.47.72 crore for a period upto 31.3.2020  in  order  to  boost  production  in  knitting  and  knitwear  clusters  at Ludhiana,  Kolkata,  and  Tirupur  which  provide  employment  to  nearly  24  lakh persons. For the  development  of the handicrafts sector,  Government  is implementing the National Handicraft Development Programme (NHDP) and the Comprehensive Handicrafts Cluster Development Scheme (CHCDS) for providing support on design, technology upgradation, infrastructure development, research  and  development,  market  support  etc.  to  handicrafts  clusters  in  the country.

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