The Government of India would soon unveil a modified Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) with a provision to increase the interest subsidy on power looms from the present 5 percent to 6 percent, Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao has ...
Tags: Textile Industry
The Government of India is planning to set up a cotton price stabilization fund by imposing cess on exporters, Minister of Textiles K Sambasiva Rao has said. Speaking to reporters after meeting stakeholders of the textile industry in ...
The Government of India may further relax or simplify guidelines for foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail trading (MBRT), Minister of Commerce and Industry and Textiles, Anand Sharma, has said. The Indian ...
Tags: India, Apparel&Accessories, MBRT
In response to queries by prospective investors on Indian Government’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retailing, the Ministry of Commerce has issued clarification on the 30 percent souring from small and medium ...
Tags: FDI Policy, small industries
The Government of India has increased the eligibility bar for the Market Development Assistance scheme (MDA) to promote the handicraft industry and SMEs in the textile industry to participate in Buyer-Seller Mission (BSM), trade fairs and ...
Tags: Textile
The Government of India is soon likely to issue some clarifications on its foreign direct investment (FDI) policy, which will come into effect "prospectively", Commerce and Industry and Textiles Minister Anand Sharma told media after his ...
In order to promote Mulberry, Eri and Muga silk production in Assam, Government through Central Silk Board is implementing a centrally sponsored scheme viz “Catalytic Development Programme” (CDP) in collaboration with State ...
Tags: Silk Output, Textile
The Government of India has constituted a state-level committee for addressing the grievances of Assam weavers. This information was given by Minister of State for Textiles Panabaaka Lakshmi in a written reply to the Lok Sabha, according to ...
Tags: Assam Weavers, Textile
The Indian Government is likely to stick to its 30 percent local sourcing clause set for global single-brand retailers seeking to set shops in India through the foreign direct investment (FDI) route, according to an Economic Times report. ...
Tags: IKEA, Textile, Textile Industry
InfodriveIndia.com, India's premier research company in export import market research, announced today that India's imports of Glass and Glassware in March- 2013 has grew to US$ 64.14 M a increase of 14.43% compared to February 2013. New ...
Textiles Ministry of India has called on the domestic cotton yarn producers to maintain the prices of their produce at low levels, so as to avert any negative impact on any of the textile industry segments, particularly the powerloom ...
Tags: Indian Govt, Cotton Yarn
The SEZ Board of Approval (BoA), Government of India, has approved the request of Welspun Anjar SEZ Limited for denotification of the sector specific SEZ for Textiles & Garments at Anjar, Gujarat, notified over an area of 109.59 hectares. ...
The Government of India has approved Revival, Reform and Restructuring (RRR) Package for Handloom Sector in November 2011, to waive off the overdue loans of primary weavers cooperatives, other weavers organizations and individual weavers ...
Tags: handloom, weavers, Handloom Proposal Package
The Ministry of Textiles is deeply concerned to learn that the recent unprecedented snowfall in Changthang region this winter has left twenty two thousand goats dead. The Ministry of Textiles, had earmarked funds last year for feed ...
Tags: Ministry of Textiles, Ladakh Pashmina Sector, Textiles
The Government has established a statutory body named the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) for the holistic development and promotion of khadi and village industries in the country. KVIC implements a number of schemes for ...
Tags: KVIC, Indian Govt, Export