A national workshop on textile parks was held last week under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) to put the ‘Make in India’ campaign on a stronger footing.
“The workshop featured experience-sharing by special purpose vehicles (SPVs) of successful textile parks and representatives of state governments on fruitful interventions by states,” the Union Ministry of Textiles said in a statement.
“The participants also deliberated on critical success factors for SITP such as financing of parks, state government support, technological advancement and skill development initiatives,” the Ministry added.
The two-day workshop sought to make the SITP scheme more effective by identifying and sharing best practices for its implementation. It also identified areas of improvement and discuss strategies to incorporate such improvements in design and implementation of the same. Moreover, the workshop offered an opportunity to state governments to understand the benefit of the scheme in promoting textile ecosystem in their states.
However, critical constraints remain, of which inadequate infrastructure is one. The SITP aims to fill this infrastructure gap by encouraging the industry to set up greenfield industrial parks with partial capital grant support from the Ministry.
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