To meet demand of value added fabric, need for yarn bank in Sircilla

Union government as part of the modernization of the existing powerloom has modernized 5,500 powerlooms and still another 30,000 looms have to be modernized in the Sircilla town.

Union government as part of the modernization of the existing powerloom has modernized 5,500 powerlooms and still another 30,000 looms have to be modernized in the Sircilla town.

Additional Secretary (Textiles)Ms. Pushpa Subramanyam along with State Textiles and Handlooms director Shailaja Ramayyar, Collector D Krishna Bhaskar and AD (handlooms and textiles) P Ashok Rao visited the Textile Park in Sircilla on Tuesday and inspected the modern looms sanctioned by the Centre.

She has called upon the entrepreneurs and powerloom weavers to utilize the Central Government schemes for the development of Textile Park to produce value-added fabric in the district.

She also stressed on the need for the yarn bank in Sircilla town to meet the demand and also favoured modernization of dyeing units to different varieties of fabric.

Instructing the stakeholders to modernize their existing looms to produce value added fabric to meet the demand in the market, she promised to provide necessary training to the powerloom weavers to produce fabric having demand in the market.

Informing the authorities to ensure that the entrepreneurs set up their units in the vacant plots in the Textile Park, she said that Union Government was mulling power subsidy to the textile sector after discussing it with the State government.

She also interacted with the weavers and inquired about the problems faced by them due to demonetisation.

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