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Powerloom Sector Support Strengthened Through GST, Schemes

The last baseline survey for powerlooms, conducted in 2013, revealed the existence of approximately 24 lakh powerlooms, supporting a workforce of around 44 lakh individuals across the country. The State wise details of the number of Powerlooms and manpower as per the last baseline survey is enclosed below. In order to ensure an assessment of […]

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December 22, 2025
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Govt’s initiative SAATHI welcomed by TEXPROCIL

Sustainable and Accelerated Adoption of efficient Textile technologies to Help small Industries (SAATHI), a new initiative by the ministries of textiles and power is welcomed by The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil). The initiative is taken to benefit 25 lakh powerloom units that produce 57 per cent of the total cloth in India. Government […]

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November 8, 2017
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Demand for lower GST rates on MMF & Yarn

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has urged the finance minister Arun Jaitely for reducing GST rates on man-made fibres (MMF) and yarns from 18 per cent to 12 per cent otherwise this would affect the MMF textile segment prospects in the country in a big way. This will come as big blow to […]

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June 20, 2017
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Textile Industry Likely To Have Uniform GST Rate

Textile minister Smriti Irani has said that a conference on GST will be held soon to decide the rate, hinting that the textile industry is expected to have uniform GST rate, responding to pleas at a meeting of textile industries associations and stakeholders in Coimbatore, for fixing a rate of five per cent, the lowest […]

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May 2, 2017
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Increase In Corpus Fund To Assist Powerloom Weavers

The powerloom weavers in Pandesara and Ved Road industrial areas in Surat will be now able to procure yarn raw material for the polyester fabric-at concessional rates with the increase in the corpus fund for country’s first yarn banks in the Surat from Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 2 crore and bank guarantee reducing from […]

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April 5, 2017
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Irani Launches PowerTex India

A comprehensive scheme for powerloom sector development, PowerTex India has been launched simultaneously at over 45 locations in the country. Inaugurating the scheme at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra, the textiles minister, Smriti Zubin Irani said that Bhiwandi will be known for resurgence in Powerloom sector. Since the sector alone employed over 44 lakh people, the minister […]

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April 3, 2017
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Telangana CM extends help to Handloom Workers

Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the concerned officials to formulate a comprehensive plan to revive handloom industry in the state and in the process create a market for its products to help the weavers. For lack of remunerative wages, handloom workers have either left the industry or are working in the powerloom […]

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February 20, 2017
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Smiriti Irani Seeks Feedback On Surat Weaver’s Issues

Textile minister, Smriti Irani asked the textile commissioner to provide a detailed feedback on the issues raised by Surat weavers associations like yarn price fluctuation, anti-dumping duty on PTA and dumping of undervalued Chinese fabrics and submit a report. A delegation of powerloom weavers from Surat also raised the issue of reduction of subsidy in […]

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August 24, 2016
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Demand For Reduction Of Number Of Products

The powerloom sector in South India has sought further reduction in the number of products reserved for handloom textile items. The number has already been reduced from 21 items to 11. Arguing that there are more products that require intricate skills and the demand for which cannot be met by the handloom sector, chairman of […]

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June 14, 2016
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Powerloom Products Mela, A Big Hit

A four-day powerloom textile mela conducted by the regional office of the Textile Commissioner (Guntur) was inaugurated by TTD trust board chairman, Chadalawada Krishnamurthy at Tirupati on Saturday. This is also the 19th in the series of 20 exhibitions planned in the country for this financial year, the last one being in Lucknow next week. […]

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March 14, 2016
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Dying Textile Sector In Maharashtra To See Revival

A delegation of big textile industrialists met Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis and sought subsidies in power tariff on high-intensity operating machinery in their powerlooms. In the state, the government has given power subsidy to small and medium powerloom operations and handloom sectors, those units which operate on high intensity big machinery to produce yarn […]

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December 3, 2015
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New Way To Control Payment Defaults

Powerloom weavers from Sachin GIDC and Hojiwala Estate have in Surat unanimously decided not to enter into any business deal with merchants who do not provide valid references of traders from respective markets in the city as there is rising number of defaults in the textile market. This has forced at least 2000 powerloom weavers […]

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July 20, 2015
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Powerloom Sector Support Strengthened Through GST, Schemes

Govt’s initiative SAATHI welcomed by TEXPROCIL

Demand for lower GST rates on MMF & Yarn

Textile Industry Likely To Have Uniform GST Rate

Increase In Corpus Fund To Assist Powerloom Weavers

Telangana CM extends help to Handloom Workers

Smiriti Irani Seeks Feedback On Surat Weaver’s Issues

Demand For Reduction Of Number Of Products

Powerloom Products Mela, A Big Hit

Dying Textile Sector In Maharashtra To See Revival

New Way To Control Payment Defaults