M Senthilkumar, Chairman, The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) has highly appreciated and thanked the concerted and constant efforts made by Union Textile Minister, Smriti Zubin Irani for fully understanding the needs of the industry and persuading the Finance Minister and Prime Minister to classify the entire cotton textile value chain under 5 per cent GST rate.
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The textile industry is expected to have a uniform GST rate, says Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani. She disclosed during a recent conference and assured there would be neutrality in the rate.
In order to make more power available to the textile industry in Maharashtra, the Government of Maharashtra will design a scheme for enabling the use of solar power by textile mills, according to the State’s Textile Minister Subhash Deshmukh.
Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani announced that the government has increased subsidy by 30 per cent for upgradation of powerloom sector and for the benefit of small weavers
The Ministry of Textiles has introduced a dashboard for Integrated Skill Development Scheme (ISDS) hosted on the NIC cloud to bring more transparency into the system.
The Textiles Minister Smriti Irani presented the AEPC Export Awards 2015-16 in 22 categories. The awards were divided into multiple categories and the key awards were given to Shahi Exports, Orient Craft, Gokaldas Exports, (Bangalore).
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry hosted the annual conference of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) from November 17-19, 2016, at Hotel Marriott, Jaipur, Rajasthan.