PM GatiShakti was used extensively while evaluating the various proposals we received under the PM Mitra Programme and it helped us validate the selected and winning locations. This is a testament to India’s technology driven transparent governance, said Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry while virtually addressing a national conference on Geo Textiles here today.
“In line with the Prime Minister’s vision of five F: from Farm to Fiber to Factory to Fashion to Foreign, seven mega textile parks under the PM Mitra Scheme have been announced to be set up in Tamil Nadu Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. I would like to congratulate all the winning states,” Goyal said
He said that India is the 5th largest producer of technical textiles in the whole world with a market size of nearly $22 billion, which we hope to build up to $300 billion when we turn 100 by 2047.
Stressing on the increasing global demand for geotextiles, Shri Goyal said that with robust growth in infrastructure that is being created in India, he believes that significant contribution will be done to increase market potential in the Geo Textiles and Technical Textile sector.
Thus, considering the growth of the sector, substantial efforts have been made to proactively address the challenges of this industry and facilitate the creation of an enabling environment. He quoted reforming schemes like the production linked incentive scheme, PM Mitra Park Scheme spoke about the National Technical textiles mission and various ease of doing business initiatives, various initiatives to make it easier for businesses to work and operate in India make line available to our industrial parts, all of which will help transform India from only a traditional textile industry to a technical textile and MMF (man-made Fibre) hub in the world.
Goyal said that India demonstrated its resilience to adversity during COVID before the world. “Textiles is one crucial sector that supported us during COVID where we could individualistic develop, PPE kits, masks, several rapid testing kits so that from a net importer of several of these products, we have dramatically expanded our capabilities to become exporter of medical textiles,” he added.
