Textile Sector In Crisis Due To Inefficiency At The Center: KTR

“The Centre’s discrimination against Telangana and its persistent refusal to cooperate with the State government for uplifting weavers’ community in the State is dangerous for the textiles sector,” said TRS working president and Textiles Minister KT Rama Rao.

He slammed the BJP govt for its inefficient administration that pushed the textiles sector, the country’s 2nd largest employer, into a crisis.

In an open letter to BJP State president Bandi Sanjay on weavers’ welfare, KTR said that India, despite being the largest producer of cotton in the world, was far behind neighbouring countries in terms of textile production.

For the first time since Independence, the NDA government imposed GST on textiles pushing the sector into a crisis.

While the Centre has removed all insurance schemes provided to weavers by the previous govts, the State govt took the responsibility and was providing insurance coverage, the Minister said.

The Minister rubbished allegations by Sanjay as utter lies and demanded that the latter explain the Centre’s contribution to Kakatiya Mega Textile Park being developed by the Telangana govt as India’s largest textile park. He asked whether the weavers’ suicides had not stopped in the State after the TRS came to power.

He warned the BJP leaders against spreading lies, failing which the weavers will teach the saffron party a fitting lesson soon.