Textile industry

1.Cotton –

 5.8 mn farmers involved in cotton production and 40-50 mn people in cotton

processing & trade.
 Cotton producing states : NORTH –PB, HR,RJ ; CENTRAL – MP,GJ,MH,OD ; SOUTH
– TS, AP,TN,KR and few places in UP, TR, WB.
 india exports cotton to Bangladesh ( largest importer) , china, vietnam,
pakistan,indonesia, taiwan, thailand etc

2.Jute –
 Golden fibre, safe packing ,renewable, natural, biodegradable , eco friendly.
 provides direct employment to 3.7 lakh worker in organised mills and suppots
livelihood for 4 mn farm families.
 Jute producing states – WB,BR,AS,TR,ML.
 GOI does direct purchases of jute sacking for 6000cr annually for food grain packing,
under jute packing material (compulsory use in packing commodities) act,1987.
3.Woollen –

 integrated wool development program was launched under central wool

development board, jodhpur
 wool marketing scheme
 wool processing scheme
 angora wool development scheme
4.Silk –

 Queen of texitles. Silk mark – purity of silk.

 Raw (mulberry) silk, bivoltine silk, vanya silk ( Muga, eri , tasar )
 Integrated scheme for development of silk industry is implemented.
 Mahila kissan sashaktikaran pariyojana for Tasar development - in
JK,OD,WB,CG,MH,AP,BR.

5. Handicrafts -
 provides employment to 68 lakh persons in rural and semi urban areas and exports
worth more than 24000 cr in 2017-18.
 GOI Initiatives- Mega cluster and Integrated development & promotion of handicrafts
 Mega cluster at narsapur (in crochet lace), lucknow, kachchh (GJ), Moradabad (UP),
Mirzapur - bhadohi (in carpet),srinagar(j&k), jodhpur (RJ) , Bareilly (UP), J&K
 Integrated development & promotion of handicrafts in uttarakhand, kerala, jharkhand,
tamilnadu,madhya pradesh, andhra pradesh, karnataka, UP, telangana, bihar
 New initiatives: pahchan initiative, pushtaini hunar vikas yojana, handicraft mark,
hastkala sahyog shivar.
 Handicraft organisations
1. export promotion council for handicrafts
2. carpet export promotion council
3. Indian institute of carpet technology
 4. metal handicrafts service centre
5. national centre for design & product development
6. council of handicrafts development corporations

6. Technical textile –
 textile materials and products used in protective gears, construction, agriculture,
healthcare , clothing, transportation, packaging, sports and environmental protection.
 Technology mission on technical textile – promoting usage of agrotextiles.
 Agrotextiles helps in doubling the farmers income.
 Centre of excellence established in Agrotech, geotech, protech, meditech, sportech ,
indutech under the scheme for growth and development of technical textiles

Sectoral schemes
1. Power loom –
 Provides employment to 44.18 lakh people as per 2013 survey
 Contributes 57% of total cloth production
 27 lakh powerlooms in india as on 2017
 SAATHI - initiative to provide energy efficient powerlooms, motors and rapid kits
to small & mid powerloom units at no upfront cost
Schemes for development of decentralized power loom
 group insurance for workers
 converged group insurance scheme – PMJJBY( Jeevan Jyothi bhima
yogana), PMSBY (suraksha),AABY ( aam admi )
 power tex india - solar energy scheme, pm credit scheme, in situ
upgradation of plain power looms, yarn bank, tax venture capital fund,
modernisation, grant in aid, common facility centre, publicity and IT
components.
Power loom cluster development
1. power loom mega cluster in Erode ( TN)
2. power loom mega cluster in Solapur (MH)
3. power loom mega cluster in karanpura (RJ)
4. power loom mega cluster in ichalkaranji ( MH)
5. power loom mega cluster in suraj (GJ)
2. Handlooms
 43 lakh direct & indirect workers
 15% of total cloth production
 97% of worlds hand woven are from india
 Hasthkala samvardhan sahayata yojna - provide modern looms and accessories
at 90% subsidy for trained weavers.
 Hatskala sayog shivirs - outreach program for weavers and artisans

Schemes to protect and promote handloom sector

1. National handloom development programme –
 concessional credit thro mudra weaver scheme
 block level cluster
 marketing initiative – Ecommerce, deendayal trade and museum
centre in Varanasi, promotion of Indian handloom brand, handloom
mark
 handloom census
 handloom parks
2. yarn supply scheme , ERP, eDhaga, BunkarMitra helpline
3. welfare scheme –
o Handloom weavers comprehensive welfare scheme
 mahatma Gandhi bunkar bima yogana
 health insurance scheme
o educational facilities for their children
o out reach programs
o handloom clusters
o weavers MUDRA scheme
4. organisation with handlooms
 weavers service centre
 Indian institute of handloom technology
 Nation centre for textile design

3. Handicrafts
Schemes for promotion and development of handicraft sector is under one umberalla
called , National handicraft development programme NHDP.
NHDP has following components
o ambedkar hatshilp vikas yogna - overall welfare of artisans.
o comprehensive handicrafts cluster development scheme
o pehchan initiative - ID card was provided to access to benefits
o pushtaini hunar vikas yojna - training to carpet weavers

Welfare measures
For weavers & artisans
1. PM rojgar protsahan yojana - to incentivise employers for generation of new
employment.
2. Rajiv gandhi shramik kalyan yojana of Min of labour & employment – unemployment
allowance for employees.
For women /SC/ST/physically challenged
3. Schedule caste sub plan - SCSP (under restricted central sector scheme- CSS)
4. Tribal sub plan – TSP (under restricted central sector scheme)
5. National textile corporation tribal sub plan
6. Handicrafts and handlooms exports corporation
7. Integrated skill development scheme -ISDS

In silk textile industry

Empowerment of SC families through sericulture project under SCSP in TN, J&K, HP, UP, Andhra,
Telangana, MH, MP.
Empowerment of ST families through sericulture project under TSP in JH,CG, OD, BR, WB, UP,
UK,Andhra, Telangana, MH, MP,J&K

In handloom,
For handlooms weavers , govt provides financial support towards modernisation, upgradation,
input support, marketing support, publicity, exhibition, development of exportable
products and R&D.

Handicrafts
Promotion and development through one umbrella scheme, National handicraft development
program -NHDP, which includes the scheme like Ambedkar hastshilp vikas yogana and
comprehensive handcrafts cluster development scheme
Modernisation in textile industry
1. E- samiksha
2. e procurement,
3. ipower tex portal for managing the power loom sector schemes
4. e dhaga app – integrated biometric authentication in yard supply scheme
5. Jute SMART – for procurement of jute
6. Jute ICARE – to increase the income of jute farmers
7. Bhuvan jump project with ISRO.
8. mKisan – scientific advisory to farmers thro mobile
9. SILKS portal – promote sericulture in NE
10. SERI – 5K -maintain& manage bivoltine cluster farmer.

Textile industry in NE india

1. Apparel and garment project in NE.
2. Initiatives under NE textile promotion scheme:
 Integrated sericulture development project
 Intensive bivoltine sericulture development project
 Silk printing unit in Tripura
 Seed grainage unit – to create infrastructure to produce seeds in mulberry, eri and
muga
 Sectors
 monitoring of projects
 apparel and garment making project
 handloom project
 power loom project
 focus on incubation centre in jute using digital printing technology
 NE investment summit
 Ministry of textiles

attached office subordinate office statutary bodies Registered societies advisory board

commisioner of central wool All india powerloom board

textile commisioner textile committee
handlooms development board

sardar V patel cotton advisory

commissioner of board
jute commissioner national jute board school of textiles &
handicrafts
mgmt

jute advisory board

central silk board

handicrafts
NIFT advisory board