Lok Sabha Question No. 1215 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-11
Subject: Incentives for setting up Textile Manufacturing Units
Ministry: TEXTILES
Asked by: Shri Gurjeet Singh Aujla

## INCENTIVES FOR SETTING UP TEXTILE MANUFACTURING UNITS

## 1215. SHRI GURJEET SINGH AUJLA:

## Will the Minister of TEXTILES वस्त्र मंत्री be pleased to state :

(a) whether the Government has undertaken any specific initiatives to promote growth of textile industry in border belt of Amritsar and if so, the details thereof;

(b)  whether  any  financial  packages  schemes  have  been  proposed  to  provide  incentives  for  setting  up textile manufacturing units in this region;

(c) whether the Government has any plans to establish any textile parks, skill development centres and clusters in the border belt of Amritsar to boost employment and economic development and if so, the details thereof;

(d)  the  details  of  collaborations  or  partnerships  with  private  players  or  international  organizations  to enhance the competitiveness and modernization of the textile industry;

(e) the steps taken to address challenges such as infrastructure gaps, export promotion, market access for textile products from Amritsar; and

(f) if not, the reasons for the lack of targeted focus on textile growth in this border region along with the details of plans under consideration to address the same?

## उत्तर

## ANSWER

## वस्त्र राज्  य मंत्री ( श्री पबित्र मार्घेररटा )

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR TEXTILES (SHRI PABITRA MARGHERITA)

(a) to (f): The Government of India is implementing various schemes/initiatives aimed at promoting the textile sector pan India including border belt of Amritsar. The major schemes/initiatives include PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) Parks Scheme which seeks to create a modern, integrated large scale, world class industrial ecosystem, which will help in attracting investments  and  boosting  employment;  Production  Linked  Incentive  (PLI)  Scheme  focusing  on  Man Made  Fibre  &  Apparel,  and  Technical  Textiles  to  boost  large  scale  manufacturing  and  enhancing competitiveness; National Technical Textiles Mission focusing on Research Innovation & Development, Promotion  and  Market  Development,  Skilling  and  Export  Promotion;  SAMARTH  -  Scheme  for Capacity  Building in Textile Sector with the objective providing demand driven, placement oriented, skilling  program;  ATUFS  to  incentivize  technology  upgradation  and  modernization  through  capital investment  subsidy  for  eligible  investment  in  benchmarked  textile  machinery;  Silk  Samagra-2  for comprehensive  development  of  sericulture  value  chain;  National  Handloom  Development  Program (NHDP) and National Handicraft Development Program (NHDP) for end to end support for handloom and handicraft sectors etc.

In addition to the above, the role of the Government is to ensure conducive policy environment, facilitating  in  creating  enabling  conditions  for  the  industry  and  private  entrepreneurs  to  set  up  units through its various policy initiatives and schemes. Due to these interventions a number of handloom, powerloom,  readymade  garments,  synthetic  yarn  and  hosiery  manufacturing  units  have  been  setup across the country including Amritsar District in Punjab.

Further,  under  the  umbrella  scheme  of  Textile  Cluster  Development  Scheme  (TCDS),  three projects of Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) were sanctioned and all three are completed in the state of Punjab providing world class, state-of the-art infrastructure in textile hubs. Also, Textile cluster in Amritsar District of Punjab constitute 225 powerloom units, 2,880 Powerloom Shuttle looms and 640 Powerloom Shuttleless looms.

Moreover,  Government  is  implementing  (Samarth)-  Scheme  for  Capacity  Building  in  Textile Sector  (SCBTS),  with  the  objective  to  provide  demand  driven,  placement  oriented  National  Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) compliant skilling programmes to incentivize and supplement the efforts  to  the  industry  in  creating  jobs  in  the  organized  textile  (excluding  spinning  &  weaving)  and related  sectors  and  to  provide  skilling  and  skill-upgradation  in  the  traditional  sectors.  A  total  of 893 personnel were trained in the state of Punjab out of which 667 were placed.

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