Eastern India, especially West Bengal is
now looking at expanding its textile industries, and in fact becoming a textile
hub for all we know. As a major step towards this goal, the state government
has launched an initiative, with the objective of opening up somewhere over a
dozen textile parks.
In the recently conducted Bengal Global
Business Summit, Mr. Rajiv Sinha, the Principal Secretary of the state unveiled
the “Texpro Bengal” Project. Under the aegis of this new initiative, the state
will provide industrial land, create the requisite infrastructure like access
roads, and encourage the creation of power substations as well as Common
Effluent Treatment Plans. The governments has also promised single window
clearances along with initiation of requisite fiscal incentives, in order to
allow swift setting up of the parks.
Through this announcement, it has become
rather clear, that the West Bengal government is currently focusing on
becoming the most sought after destination for value-added textile products of
the likes of knitted fabrics and ready-made apparels, along with technical
textiles, for both local as well as the international markets. The government
has announced the creation of as many as 13 textile parks, with complete
end-to-end functionality right from spinning and dying to the final processing
of the garments. It has been proposed that these parks will be created under 4
categories, systematically placed in different locations of vitality in the
state.The said categories will comprise of
- Dyeing, Printing and Processing
- Power Looms
- Garments and Apparels
- RMG Marketing
This initiative has received quite a warm
welcome that it deserved with Expressions of Interest or EOL being received for more than half of the land
space being offered under it. The textile industry in West Bengal is dominated
by the field of handloom, hosiery, power loom, jute as well as readymade
garments, and is known to be the second highest employer, next only to
agriculture in the state. Since the employment provided by the textile industry
is both direct as well as indirect, over 2.5 million people of the state derive
their bread and butter from the same. With this new initiative in place, and
other efforts towards the systematic expansion of the industry, the state
government is looking at creating up to 10 million employment opportunities in
the next 10 years.
Both, the conducive geographic location of
the state as well as lenient rules and regulations make it a sought-after
destination. Moreover, with a potentially large trained work force in the field
of ready-made garments, availability of power, abundance of water resources and
cheap labour along with the convenient export facility owing to the
connectivity via Kolkata’s sea port as well as airport makes the state even
more advantageous for the industry on the whole. Another added benefit that the
state enjoys is the close proximity to the potential markets of Bangladesh and
South East Asia.
With
the government now setting up better facilities for training institutions in
order to induce high-end training opportunities for skilled labourers in
accordance with the modern techniques of spinning and hosiery, along with the
establishment of new R&D centres for the industry, the manifold growth and
success of the textile sector is now only a stone’s throw away.
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