Indian apparel exporters may soon get some relief on the duties paid by them on imported fabrics. “Yes it is a long pending demand; few measures are now under consideration, so industry may soon get some good news in this regard,” replied Minister of State (I/C) for Ministry of Textiles Santosh Kumar Gangwar and Additional Secretary Pushpa Subrahmanyam, Ministry of Textiles to a question raised by Apparel Resources. They were addressing a press conference in New Delhi, organized on the completion of two years of NDA Government. The Minister added that the Government has given many incentives as well to apparel exporters over the course of time.
Also stressing on the recent reports published by International NGOs, Gangwar assured that the Ministry will see the reports of those damaging the image of Indian apparel exporters at global level. “As of now matter was not in our notice but we will see the issue now,” he said. Besides this, the Minister urged the apparel industry to set up factories in the North East region of the country as now all the eight states in North East have garment and apparel making centres, so trained workforce is available there.
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Announcing achievements of the Ministry and Government as a whole in last two years, Gangwar asserted that MoT has taken care of every sector; be it handloom, textile mills, training or education in textile and apparel industry… “It is first time that we have not received any complaint about NIFT admission,” adding, “Our textile industry now contributes 15 per cent to India’s exports. More than Rs. 6,500 crore has been spent by the MoT on various schemes for promotion and development of the textiles sector. Approximately five lakh additional jobs have been created in the past two years in the sector,” he said. Additionally, the Minister averred that one of the biggest achievements of the Ministry is of sanctioning 24 new Textile Parks under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks with a potential investment of Rs. 4,500 crore and employment for 66,000 people.
