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Textile Minister Opines For IP Protection To Handloom Weavers
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Textile Minister Opines for IP Protection to Handloom Weavers

There’s a need to introduce intellectual property (IP) protection for handloom weavers of India, textiles minister Smriti Irani opined at a handloom conference recently held in New Delhi. She also said that handloom is the country’s legacy and its potential needs to be positioned and acknowledged not only domestically, but also globally. At the Creating […]

Textile Minister Inaugurates Apparel Making Centre in Imphal
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Textile Minister Inaugurates Apparel Making Centre in Imphal

Minister of textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani, recently inaugurated Apparel and Garment Making Centre at Lamboikhongnangkhong in Imphal, Manipur, which consists of one skill and two commercial blocks apart from the 300 installed machines. The estimated expense for setting up the centre is Rs.18 crore. While also distributing ‘Pehchan’ Identity Cards to some artisans, “The scheme […]

Textiles Minister Distributes Identity Cards 'Pahchan' to Artisans
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Textiles Minister Distributes Identity Cards ‘Pahchan’ to Artisans

Textiles Minister, Smriti Zubin Irani distributed ‘Pahchan’ identity cards to artisans of five clusters of Gujarat, namely Jamnagar, Naroda, Surendranagar, Amreli and Kalol, at the inaugural ceremony of the Thematic Exhibition on Handicrafts at Ahmedabad. It may be mentioned that the camp for ‘Pahchan’ was launched on 7th October, 2016 nationwide, to ensure a unique […]

BPL Category Artisans to Get Stalls at Concessional Rates
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BPL Category Artisans to Get Stalls at Concessional Rates

The Union Textiles Minister Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani has announced a review of the stall allotment policy at Dilli Haat; the Minister has said that the policy will be modified in two weeks. Smt. Irani announced also that allotment of stalls will henceforth be made only for artisans belonging to handicraft clusters, in order to ensure […]

Tiruppur Textile Firms Hope to Spin One Lakh Crore Business
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Tiruppur Textile Firms Hope to Spin One Lakh Crore Business

A leadership change in Tiruppur’s textile cluster comes the revival of an action plan to jump-start business to one lakh crore in three years, an ambitious plan being proposed to textile minister, Smriti Irani from the country’s largest knitwear cluster. Total business, including exports and imports done by Tiruppur, in the fiscal gone by was […]

Indian Textile Industry Appeals for Cotton Fibre Security
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Indian Textile Industry Appeals for Cotton Fibre Security

A 19-member delegation from Indian textile industry met the textiles minister, Smriti Zubin Irani and submitted a joint memorandum. “Based on the collective decision taken by 26 textile Associations across the value chain in the country, it was unanimously decided to insist the government to direct Cotton Corporation of India to procure 70 to 80 […]

Irani appeals Apparel Industries to Join PM Suraksha Bima Yojana
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Irani appeals Apparel Industries to Join PM Suraksha Bima Yojana

Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani today appealed to textile industry at 63rd National Garment Fair, Mumbai to join ‘Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana’ (PMSBY) for the benefit of workers. “I congratulate The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI) for organising largest ever apparel trade show and urge the industry to take part in the PMSBY […]

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Convocation Ceremony Of NIFT, New Delhi Held

Textile minister, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, awarded degrees to 310 graduating students at the convocation of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi on June 3. Members from board of governors, NIFT, leaders from the Indian fashion industry and faculty members of NIFT were also present. In his convocation address, Gangwar […]

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Textile Minister Urged To Direct CCI To Offload Cotton

The textile industry from south India has urged the textile minister to direct Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to offload cotton in the market as the textile mills in the region are running short of quality cotton. Due to fall in cotton prices, CCI, in order to safeguard the interest of the farmers has procured […]

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