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Foundation laid for SEL Textiles’
Rs. 1,500-crore integrated facility
Mr. S. Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, laying foundation for the new greenfield facility
SEL Textiles Ltd. of the SEL
Group has taken another step in its
expansion and capacity augmentation
drive with the Deputy Chief
Minister of Punjab, Mr. S. Sukhbir
Singh Badal, laying the foundationstone
on December 16 for the stateof-the-art
greenfield mega integrated
textile park being set up at Panjava
village in Muktsar District at an investment
of about Rs. 1,500 crores.
The ceremony was attended by a
large number of company officials,
industrialists and the public from
the adjoining areas. This project had
earlier received the approval of the
State Empowered Committee under
the Scheme for Integrated Textile
Park.
SEL is setting up the project with
capacities of 188,160 spindles in
ring spinning, 40 million metres in
denim fabric and eight million pieces
of denim garments per annum.
The project will be operational in
the next fiscal.
The flagship company of the SEL
Group, viz., SEL Manufacturing
Company Ltd. had earlier commissioned
the first phase of its four lakh
spindlage plant at Mehatwara village
in Sehore district of Madhya
Pradesh in record time and established
a new benchmark in project
implementation.
The textile park is expected to catalyse
significant additional investments
in the textile industry of Punjab.
On the one hand, the plant will
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