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KTR seeks mega textile park in State
The Minister attended a Textile Conference here on Thursday and urged the Centre to evolve a comprehensive welfare policy for the weavers of the country. He also explained the measures adopted by the State government for the welfare of the weavers.
New Delhi: Minister for Industries, IT and Municipal Administration K T Rama Rao here on Thursday urged the Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani to sanction a mega textile cluster for the State apart from 12 textile clusters to help Telangana weavers overcome their problems.
The Minister attended a Textile Conference here on Thursday and urged the Centre to evolve a comprehensive welfare policy for the weavers of the country. He also explained the measures adopted by the State government for the welfare of the weavers.
Weaver community was the second largest after farm community in the State and a right garment policy would help weavers compete with the products from foreign countries, he said.
Later he met the Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, and sought his help in resolving the pending issues of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014. He said Jaitley promised to hold an inter-Ministerial meet to resolve pending issues.
He urged upon the Minister to remove the single slab system on the film industry in the country after the advent of the GST as equal footing for both Bollywood and the regional film industry would adversely affect the latter. Hence, measures must be taken to protect the regional film industry interests.
Later in his meeting with the Union Commerce and Industries Minister Nirmala Sitaraman, KTR sought her cooperation in establishing Hyderabad-Nagpur industrial corridor, dry port, lether park and Pharma SEZ in Telangana State.
He explained to her that several investors were eager to invest in the State and sought her help in developing the infrastructure.
State Government’s Special Representative in Delhi S Venugopala Chari and Secretary of Industries Aravind Kumar, accompanied him.
