The Central government is set to launch the Focused Product Investment Scheme to attract funding in the manmade fibre segment in an effort to boost India's share in the global textiles market.
The proposed scheme aims to promote both greenfield as well as brownfield investments in the manmade fibre segment.
The Centre is in the advanced stage of finalising setting up integrated mega textiles parks which are proposed to be established near ports in the country. Efforts are also underway to position India as one of the major producers of technical textile.
Technical textiles include textiles made for automotive applications, medical textiles, geotextiles, agrotextiles, and protective clothing, among others. The Ministry of Textiles wants to set up at least two textiles machinery manufacturing parks in the country and is looking forward to a major investment from Japan in the segment.
The manmade fibre segment comprises 70 per cent of the global textiles trade. The size of India's textiles industry is close to USD 150 billion, of which USD 40 billion is exported.
A Tirupur-Tokyo partnership programme has been proposed wherein certain clusters could be dedicated for supply to Japan.
The government is in the process of setting up a joint desk to address quality concerns as much of the exports from India to Japan are hampered because of certain quality issues. The target is to take the industry to USD 112 billion by 2025.