Browsing: Ministry of Textiles

The All India Textiles Directory (AITD)—a renewed attempt by the Indian Textile Journal—was unveiled by Ajit Chavan, Secretary, Textile Committee, Ministry of Textiles, during the 3rd IPF Excellence Awards 2018, which was held at National Stock Exchange on December 13, 2018.

The Bombay Textile Research Association (BTRA) organised an awareness-cum-knowledge sharing conference on sustainable eco-management system in textile processing industry on April 27, 2018 at BTRA office in Mumbai

The Textile Association of India (TAI), Mumbai Unit organised International Textile Conference on ?Textile 4.0 ? Global and Indian Perspective? on March 22-23, 2018 at Hotel The Lalit, Mumbai.

Narain Aggarwal, Chairman, The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) had been keenly following on the progress of the new scheme on skill development, which had been approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the month of December 2017.

Keeping in view requests from many exhibitors and also to coincide with the first edition of GTTES in 2015, the dates for 2nd edition GTTES 2019 to be held at Nesco, Mumbai is preponed by 12 days to 18th, 19th and 20th of January, 2019.

Budget measures like corporate tax cut for MSMEs, plan to set up 100 international skill centres, and support to cluster approach for contract farming have brought cheer to the textile industry. An ITJ Report on the pros and cons of the Budget 2017-18.

Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister of Textiles, Government of India, underlined the need to address the issue of lack of manpower in the technical textiles for which industry needed to first define the requisite skills. After defining the skills, the task would be to bridge the gap in which the industry would be supported adequately by the Government of India.