Textiles industry broadly welcomes Union Budget 2021-22
The Indian textiles and clothing industry has broadly welcomed the Union Budget 2021-22 presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on February 1. Setting up of 7 mega textiles parks under MITRA, and reducing duty on nylon raw materials are welcomed by all trade bodies, while there is a mixed reaction to 10 per cent import duty on cotton. The grant to the textiles and clothing sector in Union Budget 2021-22 is ₹3,614.64 crore, which is about 10 per cent higher than the revised budget of ₹3,300 crore in 2020-21. The budget also puts emphasis on Infrastructure Devel...