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Start programme for technical textiles: Irani tells SGCCI

16 Aug '16

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Union textiles minister Smriti Irani has asked the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI) to start a research programme for developing technical textiles.

Irani promised government help if the SGCCI took the lead in advancing technical textiles in the country, during a meeting with textile entrepreneurs in Surat, according to Times of India report.

The minister praised SGCCI for its proposal to set up a mega textile park, but she wanted the chamber to study the successes and failures of such parks at other places. “We must take lessons from the failures of others. We must ensure that investors come from across the world in such parks and create environmentally sustainable textiles,” Irani said.

Pleading that the textiles sector remains disorganised, SGCCI president BS Agarwal sought excluding textile sector from the Goods and Services Tax (GST). To this the minister said the GST bill is a good thing to have happened. “Those against its implementation must ponder and think of its benefits. India has taken a revolutionary step by passing the GST bill. We must not let this advantage go away now and start working with the government,” she said. (RKS)

Fibre2Fashion News Desk – India