Hyderabad: The BRS leaders on Saturday expressed their satisfaction over the Mega Textile Park being approved for Telangana by the Center and claimed that Textiles Minister KT Rama Rao deserves all of the credit for the approval of the park. In a press release issued on Saturday, party MLC L Ramana said that in the undivided Andhra Pradesh, the mills including Azam JAhi Mill which provided direct and indirect employment to lakhs of people in the state were closed and because of this the along with the workers, the weavers from the districts of Karimnagar, Warangal and Nalgonda had migrated to Bhiwandi, Sholapur, Ahmadabad and Surat etc.
Ramana asserted that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had introduced welfare programmes for weavers that were unparalleled in India. There are several incentives for people who work as handloom and weaver professionals. The Telangana Textile Apparel (T-TAP) Policy was introduced in expressly for the textile industry, and incentives are being given to potential entrepreneurs. Industries Minister KT Rama Rao personally controls the handloom textile department.
Ramana claimed that from the time of the State’s formation until the present, Rama Rao personally met with the Union Ministers of Finance and Textile and pleaded for a giant textile park in numerous letters, but the Central government was unresponsive. In order to replace the defunct Azam Zahi mill under their control, the Telangana government decided to establish Kakatiya Mega Textile Park. They gathered 1200 acres of land in the Warangal district and made efforts to establish an internationally renowned textile park. Industry for kitex in the State.
The BRS leader claimed that because of the welfare programmes put in place in the state of Telangana and the employment opportunities in the textile industry, weavers who had emigrated in recent decades were returning, and since they were able to make a living here, there were opportunities for many more people to do the same. The national government’s 5% Tax on handloom clothing had to be immediately repealed, according to the BRS leader.
