{"id":33493,"date":"2023-03-18T02:19:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33493"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:22:09","slug":"pm-mega-integrated-textile-regions-and-apparel-pm-mitra-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pm-mega-integrated-textile-regions-and-apparel-pm-mitra-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) Scheme?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How will these Parks be set up under the PM MITRA Scheme?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary Regarding Selections of News Sites to Develop Textile Parks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Centre has selected sites in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, MP and UP to set up new textile parks, a year and a half after the PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) scheme was announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) Scheme?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Ministry of Textiles<\/strong> has launched (2021) the scheme to strengthen the Indian textile industry by way of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enabling scale of operations,<\/li>\n<li>Reducing logistics cost by housing entire value chain at one location,<\/li>\n<li>Attracting investment,<\/li>\n<li>Generating employment and augment export potential.<\/li>\n<li>The Scheme has a budget outlay of <strong>Rs. 4445 Crore<\/strong> including administrative expenses of Rs 30 crore over 7-year period up to 2027-28.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme will develop <strong>an integrated large scale and modern industrial infrastructure facility (parks) <\/strong>for total value-chain (spinning, weaving, processing, printing, etc) of the textile industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>These parks<\/strong> are envisaged to be <strong>located at sites which have inherent strengths<\/strong> for the textile industry to flourish and have necessary linkages to succeed.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme envisages to leverage the <strong>Public Private Partnership (PPP) model<\/strong> for fast paced implementation in a time-bound manner.<\/li>\n<li>PM MITRA mega textile parks will boost the textiles sector in line with <strong>5F <\/strong>(Farm to Fibre to Factory to Fashion to Foreign) vision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/HVABmoavcL2PpIeew0ddxntBHRGxCTLKuQfsV1H2azI3O_sEQmL7Ofdr1CrWwwb8qXnqsi2AWLsbDVLjoJKD8o0UiUO28bTIOhImsdc7NmPbVkPH4haBA3lc1XHqZ4C8S7UHPQ3DRlg2\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: PM MITRA<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How will these Parks be set up under the PM MITRA Scheme?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These parks will be set up<strong> on the basis of proposals received from State Governments<\/strong> having ready availability of contiguous and encumbrance-free land parcels of <strong>minimum 1000 acres<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The State Government will transfer land to the <strong>Special Purpose Vehicle<\/strong> (SPV), which will be a <strong>legal entity <\/strong>(with 51% equity shareholding of State and 49% of Central Government).<\/li>\n<li>The selection of PM MITRA Park sites will be done in a two stage (Selection of Sites, Development of the Park) selection process on <strong>Challenge Method.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Challenge Method&#8221; is a type of selection process that is often used in competitions and challenges to determine the best candidate or solution.<\/li>\n<li>In the context of the PM MITRA Park sites, the challenge method involves a two-stage process.\n<ul>\n<li>Interested parties first submit their proposals for the development of the park sites.<\/li>\n<li>Then a select number of proposals are chosen to move on to the second stage.<\/li>\n<li>During the second stage, the selected proposals may be given specific challenges or tasks to complete in order to further demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of their proposal.<\/li>\n<li>At the end of the challenge method process, the proposal that best meets the criteria and objectives of the PM MITRA Park sites project will be selected for implementation.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media\">\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CFzFgONb0O4\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFzFgONb0O4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>News Summary Regarding Selections of News Sites to Develop Textile Parks:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The textile industry has been <strong>unorganised <\/strong>in the country and increased wastage and logistical costs impacts the competitiveness of the country&#8217;s textile sector.<\/li>\n<li>This <strong>cluster-based approach<\/strong> will solve several problems of the sector and will function as <strong>centres of opportunity<\/strong> to create an integrated textiles value chain.<\/li>\n<li>The parks in the seven selected States would provide <strong>state-of-the-art infrastructure<\/strong> for the textiles sector, attract <strong>an investment of nearly \u20b970,000 crore into these parks<\/strong>, with <strong>employment generation for about 20 lakh people.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Textiles will provide <strong>financial support <\/strong>in the form of Development Capital Support upto \u20b9500 crore per park to the Park SPV.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Competitive Incentive Support<\/strong> (CIS) upto \u20b9300 crore per park to the units in PM MITRA Park shall also be provided to incentivise speedy implementation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Convergence <\/strong>with other Government of India schemes shall also be facilitated in order to ensure additional incentives to the Master Developer and investor units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Project SU.RE?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Textiles, the project SU.RE &#8211; \u2018Sustainable Resolution\u2019 is a firm commitment from the industry to move towards fashion that contributes to a clean environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) Which Sustainable Development Goal does the PM MITRA scheme of the Indian government help achieve?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Ministry of Textiles has issued a notification to set up 7 Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) Parks with a total outlay of Rs. 4,445 crores. These are aimed at helping India to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 9: &#8220;Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/seven-states-selected-to-get-new-textile-parks-by-2026-27-says-pm-modi\/article66632269.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM MITRA: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, among 7 States to get textile parks<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/texmin.gov.in\/sites\/default\/files\/PM_MITRA_Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>MoT<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM MITRA will develop an integrated large scale and modern industrial infrastructure facility (parks) for total value-chain of the textile industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}