<center><b>National Council on Textiles &Technical Textiles</b></center>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>&#9679; Council Co - Chairman :</b>   Ramesh Agarwal, Whole Time Director- Rupa & Company ltd.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>&#9679; Council Brief: </b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>India\'s textiles sector is one of the oldest industries in the Indian economy, dating back to several
  centuries.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>The industry is extremely varied, with hand-spun and hand-woven textiles sectors at one end of the
  spectrum, while the capital-intensive sophisticated mills sector on the other end. The decentralised
  power looms/ hosiery and knitting sector forms the largest component in the textiles sector. The close
  linkage of textiles industry to agriculture (for raw materials such as cotton) and the ancient culture and
  traditions of the country in terms of textiles makes it unique in comparison to other industries in the
  country. India's textiles industry has a capacity to produce wide variety of products suitable for different
  market segments, both within India and across the world.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>ASSOCHAM National Council on Textiles & Technical Textiles</b> works towards the holistic development
  of textiles industry in India. The objective of the council is to work along with various stakeholders
  representing wide variety of sub-sectors of textiles industry like cotton, man-made, wool, silk,
  handlooms, Juteand technical textiles etc. Apart from major policy issues such as high cost of power and
  logistics, ground water extraction and availability of raw materials, ASSOCHAM has been actively
  involved with Government regarding various issues related to GST and Foreign Trade Policy for the
  sector. </p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>ASSOCHAM has been at the forefront of facilitating knowledge sharing in various segments of textiles
  industry. The council has been at the forefront of Policy advocacy for the sector and has given detailed
  inputs for the National Textiles Policy.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>&#9679; Event Held :</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>&#9679; Webinar on "Impact and Role of Textiles Industry during COVID-19" with Shri Nihar Ranjan Das,
  Joint secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India - 21st April, 2020</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>&#9679; ASSOCHAM celebrated the National Handloom Day."Vocal4Handmade" social media campaign
  with the Ministry of Textiles - 7th August, 2020</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>&#9679; SAMARTH Project, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. Training program under SAMARTH
  Scheme for Capacity Building in Textiles Sector - October, 2020</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>&#9679; Event on "Future Lies in the past : Leveraging India embedded Knowledge to pivot the country's
  growth story - 18th December, 2020</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>&#9679; Policy Note :</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>&#9679; ASSOCHAM Recommendations on the <b>New National Textiles Policy 2020</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'> - No refund of ITC of capital goods and services in case of inverted rate structure</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>- Subsidies by competing counties like China</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>- Logistics issues faced by the exporters</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>- Change in Labour laws</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>- Removal of CAP on TUFS</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>- No FTA with Bangladesh</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>- Expedite India EU FTA</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>&#9679; Event Wright up :</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>&#9679; Event on "Future Lies in the past : Leveraging India embedded Knowledge to pivot the
  country's growth story - 18th December, 2020</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>The event was organized during the ASSOCHAM Foundation week with the <b>Hon\'ble Minister for
  Textiles, Women & Child Development Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani</b> was the Chief Guest along with industry
  representatives including Smt. Dipali Goenka, CEO and Joint Managing Director, Welspun India, Shri T.
  Rajkumar, Chairman CITI and Chairman, Sri Mahasakthi Mills Ltd. Shri Anjani Prasad, Managing Director,
  Archroma India Pvt. Ltd and they discussed about the role of textiles sector for India's roadmap towards
  a US$5 trillion economy'</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>&#9679; SAMARTH Project, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. Training program under
  SAMARTH Scheme for Capacity Building in Textiles Sector - October, 2020</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>Ministry of Textiles, Government of India has approved ASSOCHAM to execute training program
  under <b>SAMARTH Scheme</b> for Capacity Building in Textiles Sector (SCBTS) with a target to train 1000
  trainees with the Total Project Cost of Rs.1,38,89,250/- under five sectors.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>The training program has started on October, 2020 and successfully completed training of around
  200 candidates as on date.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>List of Industry members :-</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'> 1. Shri Balkrishan Goenka, Chairman, Welspun Group</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'> 2. Shri Mohit Jain, Executive Vice Chairman, Indo Count</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'> 3. Shri Kulin Lalbhai, Executive Director, Arvind Mills</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>4. Shri Harish Ahuja, Managing Director, Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>5. Shri Dilip Gaur Managing Director Grasim Industries Ltd.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>6. Shri G.S. Singhvi ,Chairman & Managing Director, Hindustan Fibers Ltd.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>7. Shri Anjani Prasad, Managing Director, Archroma India Pvt. Ltd.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'> 8. Shri O.P. Lohia CMD, Indo Rama Synthetics (I) Ltd</p>