Maharashtra plans special textile park

Maharashtra has planned to set up a special textile park to create eco-friendly textile and lend assistance for establishing such industries.
Chandrakant Patil, Textile Minister, speaking at an industry event, urged the students pursuing fashion design to conduct more research with a view to increasing implementation of such eco-friendly initiatives. Cultivating cotton in an eco-friendly manner using natural manure and conserving natural resources are the need of the hour, he said. Addressing Consortium of Green Fashion, a programme organized jointly by School of Fashion Technology and Nirmala Niketan College of Home Science, he said ´recycle, reuse and reduce´ should be the key objective.