Arunachal Pradesh Textiles Minister Tamiyo Taga has urged the Centre to encourage textiles industry in the state, official sources said today.
Taga requested Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani during a textiles ministers' meeting in New Delhi yesterday to set up hosiery and apparel manufacturing units in every district of Arunachal Pradesh.
He also sought establishment of power looms, yarn dyeing processing units, raw material banks, silk spinning mills and crafts villages with modern wayside amenities in each district, besides a one-time grant of infrastructure development fund and a one-time fund for installment of improved technology inputs, an official release said here today.
Taga apprised Irani of the pending schemes in the textile ministry which are assured but not yet approved.
The union minister said that some schemes are drafted slowly due to new guidelines and rules but assured that all the schemes would be sanctioned soon, the release added.
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