Funds no constraint for textile schemes

​Sircilla: The schemes implemented by the Central government must be utilised for the development of Textile and Jute industry in the district, suggested Additional Secretary Textiles Pushpa Subrahmanyam here on Tuesday.

Later she interacted with representatives of the managements of the textile and handlooms units to know their problems.

She inspected textile parks on the outskirts of Baddenapalli in Thangallapalli mandal, to which the Central government has issued weaving units as part of modernisation on the day.

Addressing a conference of industrialists, she felt the need to establish a yarn bank in Sircilla district along with improvising the dying process and development of sheds.

‘The Central government is implementing various schemes for the development of jute industry in the country. There is no scarcity of funds.

The funds would be allotted for giving training to workers for improving their skills. By replacing old technology with new one and modernising them, better results can be obtained,’ she stated.

Pushpa directed the officials to establish new units in the place of empty blocks present in the textile park.

After observing the processing units where the modernisation scheme is implemented successfully, she said as many as 5,500 units are modernised till date and 30,000 units will be modernised in the next phase.

She also said that they are designing a policy to minimise electricity charges for textile industries present in the country and are requesting the State governments to cooperate them in this regard.

She also attended an awareness programme on cashless transactions for the workers of handlooms and textile units.

She handed over bank documents to those workers who have no bank accounts, after opening them. Commissioner Textiles Shailaja Rama Iyer, District Collector D Krishna Bhaskar and Assistant Director V Ashok were present along with others.