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Integrated Handloom Development Project, with an initial allocation
of Rs. 1,000 crore. To be implemented in all the nearly two hundred
plus handloom clusters in the country, it will have five growth
objectives:
(a) to sustain and further increase the domestic market for handloom
products.
(b) to boost handloom exports from the current Rs. 3,000 crores to Rs.
10,000 crore in five years.
(c) to lift every handloom weaver's family above poverty level.
(d) to create sustainable employment for at least 10 lakh more people
in the handloom sector.
(e) to help handlooms move up the value chain. Necessary fiscal and
other support will be given to achieve the above objectives.
2) The end of the Multi-Fibre Agreement and the quota regime in 2005
presents an opportunity to India's textile industry. The Government will
assist the industry to reap this opportunity. Specifically,
(a) The powerloom industry will be helped to move up the value chain
by upgrading technology, adopting shuttleless looms and becoming
integrated textile units.
(b) Units in the mill sector will be enabled to become total textile
solution providers. Consolidation and aggregation will be encouraged.
(c) India's strength in being the largest producer of yarn will be
innovatively harnessed.
(d) Cotton growers' problems will be comprehensively addressed.
3) A Task Force for Garment Industry will be set up to catalyze a
ten-fold increase in investment in making garments for both the
domestic and export market. Globally, stitching garments is the fastest
way to create medium-skilled jobs, especially jobs for women. India,
which is among the most efficient suppliers of yarn, will be made the
biggest garment maker in the world by 2009.
Small & Medium Enterprises
1) The focus of our effort will be to facilitate SMEs becoming thriving
businesses in a sustainable way, with a strong presence in global
markets. Towards this end, we shall enact a SME Development Act
and back this up with other regulatory reforms.
2) The Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme will be restructured by lowering
its fees to 1% and by increasing the limit to Rs. 50 lakh.
3) A Rs. 1,000 crore Infrastructure Incubation Development
Fund will be set up for incubating technocratic entrepreneurs in the
SME sector.
4) Strong measures will be initiated, within six months, to put an end
to the tyranny of the Inspector Raj, which breeds, corruption, drains
the growth potential and demotivates our entrepreneurs in this sector.
The cost of complying with regulation, and the time that SSI
entrepreneurs have to spend in dealing with government authorities
will be reduced to the barest minimum.
Cottage Industries
1) A National Policy on Cottage Industries will be unveiled before
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