Invest India, national investment promotion and facilitation agency of India under Ministry of Commerce and Industry, recently hosted a webinar Exclusive Investment Forum – Textile and Apparel Sector in which Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani and ministers of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Telangana discussed on how to attract investments in their states.
Dipali Goenka, CEO, Welspun; Kulin Lalbhai, ED, Arvind Mills; Rajinder Gupta, Chairman, Trident Group; Ramesh Poddar, CMD, Siyaram Silk Mills Ltd; Dr. Sundararaman, Chairman, Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA); Dr. A. Sakthivel, Chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) and many other industry leaders were also part of this two-hour long webinar.
The participants discussed their experience of investing in various states. Ravi Capoor, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles and few other top officials also addressed the event.
KT Rama Rao, IT and Industries Minister, Telangana claimed that Telangana’s Textile Policy is the best in India and the State Government supports investors to serve them best.
Chandra Mohan Patowary, Cabinet Minister of Transport, Industry & Commerce, Assam also urged the industry to invest in Assam as the state is helping investors with lucrative policies.
Various issues regarding scope of apparel manufacturing, state clusters, textile machineries, yarn, supply chain and man-made fibres (MMF) were also discussed in the webinar.
Smriti Irani assured investors that irrespective of whether investments made are small or big, Government will walk shoulder to shoulder in their ventures to facilitate their growth.
