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Integrated Textile Parks

Scheme: Has the purpose

been served?

40 per cent of the project cost subject to a tioning and differences between SPV
tehelka bureau ceiling of 40 crores. members.
However, Government of India grant The report says that out of the func-
is up to 90 per cent of the project cost tional parks, only few parks are fully
extile industry was the key for first two projects (each) in Arunachal functional while the rest are still look-
sector that led to the Indus- Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, ing for investors. Since most of the parks
trial Revolution in late 18th Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, are partially functional, they have not
century that spread across Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and been able to achieve the integration in
T the globe. A total of 59 tex- Jammu and Kashmir with ceiling of 40 real sense. There is lack of coordination
tile parks have been sanctioned un- crores for each textile park. among the units in the park as even
der the Scheme for Integrated Textiles A study report submitted to Ministry though units of different value chain
Park (SITP) by the Ministry of Textiles of Textiles by Wazir Advisors, a manage- steps are present in a park but they are
out of which 22 textile parks have been ment consulting firm focused on advis- mostly not integrated with each other. In
completed. Has the scheme served the ing clients in sectors of Textile, Apparel many instances, products being manu-
very purpose for which it had been and Technical Textile stating that though factured by upstream units are not of the
formulated? a majority of the parks are functional, type required by the downstream ones
One of the key driving factors for in- atleast eight had applied for cancellation. while in some instances the upstream
dustrial transformation was the promo- The functional parks are involved in pro- units are unable to meet the downstream
tion of industrial clusters, geographical duction of spun yarn, fabric weaving and demands.
agglomerations of firms and hubs of knitting, fabric processing, garmenting, The report says that as most of the
production, which was seen as a viable made-up manufacturing, and technical parks are of the size from 25 to 75 acres
solution for economic growth and com- textiles. hence the Scheme has had limited im-
petitiveness. The Government is imple- There were 11 parks which got can- pact in bringing scale to the textile in-
menting the Scheme for Integrated Tex- celled earlier, mainly due to land related dustry. It has recommended that the
tile Park (SITP) which provides support issues such delay in conversion, clear- participation of State Governments
for creation of world-class infrastructure ances, disputed lands and even non- should be enhanced by sensitizing state
facilities for setting up of textile units, availability. The other reasons that led to governments for supporting parks ap-
with a Government of India grant up to park cancellation were delays in sanc- proved by means of consultation plat-
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