Mega textile clusters at Varanasi & 6 other centres
Updated: Jul 10, 2014 03:05:09pm
New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN) The Centre will support a mega textile cluster at Varanasi where a Rs 50 crore trade facilitation centre and a Craft Museum will also come up.
Suggesting these measures for the Parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in his Budget Speech that he proposed “to set up a Trade Facilitation Centre and a Crafts Museum with an outlay of Rs 50 crore to develop and promote handloom products and carry forward the rich tradition of handlooms of Varanasi, where I also intend to support a Textile mega-cluster.”
Jaitley has also proposed to set up six more Textile mega-clusters at Bareilly, Lucknow, Surat, Kutch, Bhagalpur, Mysore and one in Tamil Nadu, allocating a sum of Rs 200 crore for this purpose.
In addition, a Hastkala Academy for the preservation, revival and documentation of the handloom/handicraft sector in PPP mode in Delhi has been proposed for which a sum of Rs 30 crore has been set aside.
A Pashmina Promotion Programme (P-3) and a programme for the development of other crafts of Jammu and Kashmir are also in the pipeline, setting aside a sum of Rs 50 crore for the same. (KNN Bureau)
Suggesting these measures for the Parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in his Budget Speech that he proposed “to set up a Trade Facilitation Centre and a Crafts Museum with an outlay of Rs 50 crore to develop and promote handloom products and carry forward the rich tradition of handlooms of Varanasi, where I also intend to support a Textile mega-cluster.”
Jaitley has also proposed to set up six more Textile mega-clusters at Bareilly, Lucknow, Surat, Kutch, Bhagalpur, Mysore and one in Tamil Nadu, allocating a sum of Rs 200 crore for this purpose.
In addition, a Hastkala Academy for the preservation, revival and documentation of the handloom/handicraft sector in PPP mode in Delhi has been proposed for which a sum of Rs 30 crore has been set aside.
A Pashmina Promotion Programme (P-3) and a programme for the development of other crafts of Jammu and Kashmir are also in the pipeline, setting aside a sum of Rs 50 crore for the same. (KNN Bureau)
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