The names of the states where the seven Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel Parks will be set up with an outlay of Rs 4,445 crore will be announced by the Centre shortly, said Union Minister Piyush Goyal.
A Challenge Method is being used to choose the sites for the PM MITRA parks and is based on objective criteria. State governments with ready availability of contiguous and encumbrance-free land parcels of over 1,000 acres along with textile-related ecosystems and facilities were invited to give their proposals by the Centre.
”The PM MITRA scheme where we will be shortly announcing the states who have won through the challenge route, and who have offered to provide the best ecosystem for our textile industry to collectively be present at one location where plug and play infrastructure will be made available for the entire supply and value chain to be colocated and make ourselves more competitive will certainly give a big boost to the 5F vision of Prime Minister Modi,” Goyal said at the Global Textile Conclave in Jaipur which the minister adressed virtually.
These PM MITRA Parks will enable the industry to create an integrated textiles value chain right
from spinning, weaving, processing/dyeing and printing to garment manufacturing at a single
location.
These parks are also aimed at having world-class industrial infrastructure which would boost
FDI and local investments in the sector by attracting cutting-edge technology.
The PM MITRA scheme will be used to establish the parks and is inspired by the Prime Minister’s 5F vision – Farm to Fibre to Factory to Fashion to Foreign. The government has received 18 applications from 13 States for the seven Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel parks approved earlier, which are in the ‘advanced stage’ of consideration, Textile Secretary Rachna Shah said earlier this month.
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Setting up of 7 Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel parks was approved by the Union Cabinet in October 2021 with a total outlay of Rs 4,445 crore for five years as a bid to position India strongly on the global textiles map.