The Andhra Pradesh government is encouraging the textile sector in a big way and entrepreneurs should make use of the benefits being offered by the state government as well as the special package given by the Centre in the budget to set up more units, said K Srikanth Prabhakar, Joint Director in the office of the Commissioner of Handlooms and Textiles.

He was speaking at an interactive session with entrepreneurs here on Wednesday. State and Cenral government officials and representatives of the AP Chambers of Commerce and Industries Federation participated in the meeting.

At the recent CII partnership summit here, 12 MoUs were signed by the state government with different companies for setting up 12 apparel units in the state, entailing investment of ₹963 crore in all and generating 46,000 jobs, he said.

“These projects will come up in the next one to one-and-a-half years. Four of the units will come up in the Brandix apparel park here, five units in Anantapur district and the remaining in Chittoor district,” he added.

Alok Dwivedi, Deputy Director-General of Foreign Trade, spoke about the importance of promoting exports in the sector and B Punnam Kumar, Assistant Director-General of Foreign Trade, spoke about Export Promotion Credit Guarantee (EPCG) scheme.

T IndiraEmployee Provident Fund Corporation, spoke about the Pradhan Mantri Paridhan Rojgar Protsahan Yojana under which the Union government shall bear the entire 12 per cent contribution of the employer for new employees of the garment and apparel industry for the first three years, if the the employees are earning less than ₹15,000 a month.

Ramalinga Raju, General Manager of the Visakhapatnam district industries centre, said clearances would be given speedily under the single-window scheme and entrepreneurs should make use of the opportunity.

G Sambasiva Rao, president-elect of the Andhra Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation, and others spoke.

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