MINISTRY OF TEXTILE

• 45.1. SCHEME FOR INTEGRATED TEXTILE PARK (SITP)
• • To provide the industry with world class state of the art infrastructure facilities for setting up their textile units.
• • To facilitate textile units to
• • meet international environmental and social standards.
• • To mobilize private investment in the textile sector and generate fresh employment opportunities.
• • It was launched by merging two schemes, namely, Apparel Parks for Exports Scheme (APES) and the Centre Infrastructure Development Scheme (TCIDS) in 2005.
• • The scheme targets industrial clusters / locations with high growth potential, which require strategic interventions by way of providing world-class infrastructure support.
• • Public Private Partnership mode is followed to setup Integrated Textile Parks (ITPs).
• • It is a demand driven scheme in which the prospective entrepreneurs can send their proposals to the Government, after completion of stipulated conditions as per guidelines.
• • An ITP will include following components:
• o Land: must be more than 20 acres, under Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV);
• o Common infrastructure: roads, water & electricity supply, etc;
• o Buildings for common facilities: training center, testing lab, etc;
• o Factory buildings: for production purposes.
• • The ITPs can also get benefits from Amended Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (ATUFS), SAMARTH, etc
• • Funding: Central Government will bear 40% of the project cost (90% of the project cost for first two projects each in the Special Category States) up to Rs.40 crores through grants in three installments.
• • The Funds are released in the form of Bank Loans and Grant/Equity by the Ministry of Textiles, State Industrial Development Corporation (SIDC) and Industrial Project Management Consultant (IPMC).
• • Project cost will also cover support activities such as textile machinery, textiles engineering, accessories, packaging, etc depending on the needs of the ITP.
• • From April 2000 to September 2019, India's textiles sector received Rs. 19,398.71 crore of FDI which is only 0.74% of the total inflows.
• • In order to attract more FDI, the Textiles Ministry now plans to setup Mega Textile Parks of 1000 acres which will be located near strategic industrial corridors. 
• 45.2. SILK SAMAGRA- INTEGRATED SCHEME FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SILK INDUSTRY
• • To maintain Breeders stock, Breed improvement through R&D Projects
• • Development of mechanized practices
• • Impart training on improved technology programmes to Stakeholders, and transfer technology to the field
• • Produce Basic & Commercial Seed of the improved Silkworm breeds
• • Encourage Private Partnership in Seed sector
• • Maintain & Certify the quality standards set by the R&D units
• • to promote improved crossbreed silk and the import substitute Bivoltine silk so that Bivoltine silk production in India enhances to such a level that raw silk imports become nil by 2022
• • It is a central sector scheme implemented by Ministry of Textile through Central Silk Board (CSB).
• • The Scheme has four components
• o Research & Development (R&D), Training, Transfer of Technology and IT Initiatives
• o Seed Organizations and farmers extension centres
• o Coordination and Market Development for seed, yarn and silk products and
• o Quality Certification System (QCS)
• • It includes Sericulture Information Linkages and Knowledge System (SILKS) Portal & Mobile Application for Stakeholders and for seed quality monitoring
• • The scheme also comprises of various beneficiary-oriented components to support Mulberry, Vanya and Post Cocoon Sectors.
• • The implementation strategy is convergence based at the State level with the schemes of other Ministers like MGNREGS of Rural Development, RKVY & PMKSY of Ministry of Agriculture, for maximizing benefits.
• • Reputed organizations like IITs, CSIR, IISc and international research institutes on Sericulture in Japan, China, Bulgaria etc. will collaborate in R&D and technological advancements.
• • It will provide livelihood opportunities for women, those belonging to SCs and STs, and other weaker sections of the society across the country, including those from Left-Wing Extremism affected areas and North Eastern Region.
• • To increase productive employment from 85 lakhs to 1 crore persons by 2020.
• • Brand Promotion of Indian silk will be encouraged through quality certification by Silk Mark in the domestic as well as Export market. 
• 45.3. NATIONAL TECHNICAL TEXTILES MISSION
• • To position the country as a global leader in Technical Textiles.
• • To promote usage of technical textiles in various flagship missions, programmes including strategic sectors such as agriculture, aquaculture, dairy, poultry, etc.
• • To bring an overall improvement in cost economy, water and soil conservation, better agricultural productivity and higher income to farmers per acre of land holding in addition to promotion of manufacturing and exports activities in India.
• • The Mission would have a four year implementation period from FY 2020-21 to 2023-24.
• • The Mission will have four components:
• • Component -l (Research, Innovation and Development)
• o To promote both fundamental research at fibre level and application based research in technical textiles by various Centre for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratories, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and other scientific/industrial/academic laboratories of repute.
• • Component -II (Promotion and Market Development)
• o will aim at average growth rate of 15-20% per annum taking the level of domestic market size to 40-50 Billion USD by the year 2024; through market development, market promotion, international technical collaborations, investment promotions and 'Make in India' initiatives.
• • Component - III (Export Promotion)
• o Export Promotion Council for Technical Textiles to be set up for effective coordination and promotion activities in the segment and ensuring 10% average growth in exports per year up to 2023-24.
• • Component- IV (Education, Training, Skill Development to
• o promoting technical education at higher engineering and technology levels related to technical textiles and its application areas
• o creation of innovation and incubation centres and promotion of 'start-up' and Ventures'.
• • A sub-component of the research will focus on development of bio degradable technical textiles materials, particularly for agro-textiles, geo-textiles and medical textiles.
• • It will also develop suitable equipment for environmentally sustainable disposal of used technical textiles, with emphasis on safe disposal of medical and hygiene wastes.
• • development of indigenous machineries and process equipment for technical textiles, in order to promote 'Make In India' and enable competitiveness of the industry by way of reduced capital costs.
• • Ministry of Textiles plans to implement National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM) through a 3-tier institutional mechanism:
• o Tier- I: A Mission Steering Group led by the Textiles minister- It would be responsible to approve all financial norms in respect of all Schemes, Components and Programme of the NTTM. In addition, all scientific / technological research projects under the NTTM shall require its approval.
• o Tier II: An Empowered Programme Committee led by textiles secretary- It will monitor the implementation of various components of the mission. It will also approve all projects within the financial limit of each programme as approved by the Mission Steering Group except research projects.
• o Tier III: A Committee on Technical Textiles on Research, Development & Innovation chaired by a Niti Aayog member- It will identify and recommend all research projects related to strategic sectors such as defence, para-military, security, space, and atomic energy. 
• 44.4. POWERTEX INDIA SCHEME
• • To provide financial assistance to economically weaker low-end powerloom units for their modernisation and Infrastructure development.
• • It is a comprehensive scheme for powerloom sector development which aims to boost common infrastructure and modernisation of the powerloom sector in the country.
• • It has nine major components: In-situ Upgradation of Plain Powerlooms, Group Workshed Scheme (GWS), Yarn Bank Scheme, PM
• • To improve quality and productivity of the fabrics being produced and enable them to face the competition in domestic and international markets.
• • To boost cluster-based development
• • Organize Buyer-Seller Meets and Reverse Buyer-Seller Meets to promote market for powerloom product.
• • To avoid middle man/local supplier brokerage charge on sales of yarn.
• • To give thrust to renewable energy (solar).
• Credit Scheme, Solar Energy Scheme, Common Facility Centre (CFC), Tex Venture Capital Fund, Facilitation, IT, Awareness, Market Development and Publicity for Powerloom Schemes, and Grant-in-Aid and Modernisation & Upgradation of Powerloom Service Centres (PSCs)
• • The two major schemes are:
• o Pradhan Mantri Credit Scheme (PMCS) for powerloom weavers and
• o Solar energy scheme for powerlooms.
• • PMCS for power looms: financial assistance (including margin money subsidy and interest reimbursement) will be given as against the credit facility under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana and under Stand-Up India to SC/ST/Women entrepreneurs of the decentralised power loom units.
• • There is also a provision of universal insurance to the powerloom workers (18-59 years age) in case of natural death, accidental death and partial / permanent disability due to accident.
•  45.5. AMENDED TECHNOLOGY UPGRADATION FUND SCHEME (ATUFS)
• • To promote Ease of doing Business in the country and to achieve the vision of general employment and promoting exports through Make in India and Zero Effect and Zero Defect in manufacturing.
• • To facilitate augmentation of investment, productivity, quality, employment, exports along with import substitution in textile industry and to indirectly promote investment in the textile machinery manufacturing.
• • It is a credit-linked Central Sector Scheme.
• • There is a provision of one-time capital subsidy for eligible benchmarked machinery at the rate of 15% for garmenting and technical textiles segments with a cap of Rs. 30 crore and at the rate of 10% for weaving, processing, jute, silk and handloom segments with a cap of Rs. 20 crore.
• • Subsidy is given to the units/entities through nodal financial institutions and not through the state govt.
• • It covers Capital Investment Subsidy (CIS), while earlier schemes of TUFS had provisions both for interest reimbursement as well as Capital Subsidy.
• • ATUFS is targeted towards focused segments like garmenting, and the segments which have achieved desired level of modernization like spinning etc. have been excluded. 
• 45.6. SCHEME FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN TEXTILE SECTOR (SAMARTH)
• • to provide demand driven, placement oriented NSQF (National Skills Qualification Framework) Compliant skilling programme to incentivize organized textile and related sectors excluding Spinning and Weaving.
• • to promote skilling and skill up-gradation in the traditional sectors of Handlooms, Handicrafts, Sericulture and Jute
• • to provide Sustainable livelihood to all sections of the society across the country via wage or self-employment.
• • 10 Lakh people (9 lakh in Organised and 1 lakh in traditional sector)
• • all sections of the society across the country including rural, remote, LWE affected, North East, J&K, women through skill development and placement.
• • It is a skill development scheme covering the entire value chain of the textile sector excluding Spinning & Weaving in organized Sector to be implemented from 2017-18 to 2019-20
• • Skill gap and skilling requirements will be assessed and skills will be imparted accordingly.
• • In addition to domain specific hard skills, the program shall also provide 30 hours of soft skills.
• • Trainees will be assessed and certified by an accredited Assessment Agency.
• • There shall be placement guarantee of the 70% successful trainees (for courses in organised sector, all 70% have to be placed in wage employment, while for courses in traditional sector, atleast 50% are to be placed in wage employment)
• • Post Placement tracking will be mandatory under the scheme.
• • Preference given to marginalized social groups and 117 aspirational districts Public Grievance redressal system.
• • For self-empolyment, concessional credit under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana will be provided for beneficiaries.
• • Implementing Agencies include Textile Industry, Institutions/Organization of the Ministry of Textile/State Governments having training infrastructure and placement tie-ups with textile industry, Reputed training institutions/ NGOs etc. 
• 45.7. OTHER SCHEMES
• SAATHI (Sustainable and Accelerated Adoption of Efficient Textiles Technology to Help Small Scale Industries)
• It was launched jointly by Ministry of Textiles and Ministry of Power to provide energy-efficient powerlooms, motors and rapier kits to small and medium powerloom units at no upfront cost. (For more details, see schemes under Ministry of Power).
• Deendayal Hastkala Sankul
• It is a trade facilitation centre for handicrafts at Varanasi which would provide world-class marketing facilities to the weavers and artisans and would also boost the tourism potential of Varanasi.
• Pushtaini Hunar Vikas Yojana
• It was launched at Institute of Carpet Technology, Badohi to impart technical and soft-skills training to weavers from traditional carpet-weaving families.
• Cotton Technical Assistance Programme (TAP)
• • India implemented a Technical Assistance Programme (TAP) for cotton in 6 African countries, namely – Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda from 2012 to 2018.
• • Now, textiles ministry has launched the second phase of the Cotton Technical Assistance Programme (TAP) for 5 years that will cover 11 African countries including the C4 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali).
• • It includes areas like area expansion and productivity enhancement, Enhancing R&D/ Quality Control, Marketing/Distribution Infrastructure etc.
• Improved Cultivation and Advanced Retting Exercise for Jute (Jute – ICARE)
• • This pilot project launched in 2015 is aimed at addressing the difficulties faced by the jute cultivators by providing them certified seeds at subsidized rates, seed drills to facilitate line sowing, nail-weeders to carry out periodic weeding and by popularising several newly developed retting technologies under water limiting conditions.
• Pahchan Cards
• • Ministry of Textiles has taken an initiative to issue Aadhar link identity card to handicrafts artisans under “PAHCHAN” initiative
• • The Pahchan card has an information of handicrafts artisans viz: name & address, Aadhar Card number, mobile number and craft practiced.
• Mahatma Gandhi Bunkar Bima Yojana
• • for providing social security benefits like life, accidental & disability insurance coverage to handloom weavers/workers in the age group of 51-59 years across the country, who have already enrolled under the scheme on 31.5.2017.
• • The annual premium is of Rs.470/-
• • The claim benefits are provided by LIC directly into the bank account of beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
• Project SU.RE
• • It was recently launched by the Union Textile Minister, along with Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI), United Nations in India, and IMG Reliance.
• • It is Indian apparel industry’s largest commitment to move towards sustainable fashion. SU.RE stands for 'Sustainable Resolution' – that contributes to a clean environment.
• • It aims to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030, especially SDG-12 for responsible consumption and production.
• • It will address the needs of an increasingly conscious consumer who would prefer to buy from a brand that is environmentally conscious and engages in environmental protection.