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`Textile machinery manufacture needs scaling-up'
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Coimbatore
Feb. 2
The Union Minister of State for Textiles, Mr E.V.K.S. Elangovan, today took pride on the strength of domestic textile sector and its growth pace.
But he added that there was a need for scaling up capacity of textile machinery manufacturing sector, which is not in a position to meet the industry's machinery requirement, thereby causing huge backlogs in supplies.
Speaking at the inauguration of the five-day Knit-Tech 2007, a knitting technology trade fair being held at the Hi-tech Tirupur Exhibition Centre at Tirumurugan Poondi near Tirupur, the Minister said that the domestic textile sector had recorded 8-9 per cent annual growth in the last two years compared to average rate of 3-4 per cent in earlier decades.
Exports too showed double-digit growth (22 per cent) last fiscal.
Mr Elangovan said he hoped the scheme of integrated textile park (SITP) would be extended to the 11th Plan to enable creation of more textile parks over the next five-year period.
Similarly, he hoped that the technology upgradation fund scheme (TUFS) for the textile sector would be extended during the 11th Plan to provide continued capacity building opportunity.
On infrastructure deficiencies, he said that the constraints faced by the Tirupur knitwear processing units in handling effluent treatment would be addressed in the State Government proposal to establish a marine discharge facility.
The fair focuses on latest technology machinery used in the knitting, dyeing, embroidery, sewing and finishing industries.
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