The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved an Integrated Processing Development Scheme (IPDS) with a corpus of Rs 500 crore to make textile processing units more environment-friendly and globally competitive.
The fund will be used to set up four to six brownfield projects and three to five greenfield projects over the 12th Plan period addressing environmental issues faced by textile processing units, a Government release said.
The eligible projects under the scheme would cover Common Effluent Treatment Plants, captive power generation on technology preferably renewable/green technology, infrastructure such as storm water management, necessary roads and pipelines for water & wastewater and, facility for testing and R&D centres, the release added.
The scheme will support upgradation of existing processing clusters/centres specifically in the area of water and waste water management and also encourage research and development work in the textiles processing sector.
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