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Govt working on a separate PLI for garments: Textile minister Giriraj Singh
Shiva Rajora Asit Ranjan Mishra New Delhi
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Union Minister for Textiles Giriraj Singh spoke to Shiva Rajora and Asit Ranjan Mishra in New Delhi on the government's initiatives to change the course of the labour-intensive textile industry, including his push for technical as well as new-age textiles. Edited excerpts:
What are the challenges and opportunities the textile sector is facing?
The Indian textile industry, which was worth $112 billion a decade ago, has grown by nearly 60 per cent to $176 billion today and our target is to grow it to $350 billion by 2030. Today India is making significant strides in the technical textile sector as
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