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India: Silk park planned at Kancheepuram

India: Silk park planned at Kancheepuram

Write: Barney [2011-05-20]
Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Wednesday said the government would consider setting up of an integrated textile park exclusively for the silk industry at Kancheepuram.

He gave the assurance when an eight-member delegation of the Kancheepuram silk industry, led by Member of Parliament representing Kancheepuram P.Viswanathan.

The government has so far sanctioned 40 textile parks in different parts of the country and 15 more are in the pipeline.

Of the sanctioned parks, 10 are in Maharashtra, seven in Gujarat, six each in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, four in Rajasthan and two each in Punjab and West Bengal and one each in Karnataka, Assam and Madhya Pradesh.

The parks are intended to provide the industry with world-class infrastructure to meet international environmental and social standards and each would normally have 50 units.

They have to be set up by special purpose vehicles formed with representatives of local industry, financial institutions and the State and Central Governments.