The troubled textile sector in Telangana State is all set to get a booster dose with the Government taking up the Kakatiya Mega Textile Park in Warangal district.

State Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will lay the foundation stone on Sunday for the Park which will come up over a 2,000 acre campus between Shyampet and Chintapalli villages.

The Government has acquired 1,200 acres of land already from farmers. Touted as the biggest in the country, the Park will house dozens of companies with multi-thousand crore investments and generate over 50,000 jobs in the first phase itself.

The Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) is executing the KMTP Project for which IL&FS Cluster Development Initiative (IL&FS Clusters) has been engaged as Project Consultant.　

Textile sector dilemma

Despite being among the top three cotton producing states in the country (2015-16) with a long staple cotton production of 60 lakh bales per annum, Telangana textile sector has been going through lot of issues. A majority of the skilled textile workers have been forced to migrated to other states for livelihood.

After bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014, 75 per cent of the pre-division cotton growing areas have remained in Telangana with only 20 per cent of spinning capacity. This has led to a situation where most of the cotton is going to neighbouring states for value addition and export of yarn.

There are 33 spinning mills with capacity of 10 lakh spindles, but only 20 per cent of the cotton grown in the State is utilised since 80 per cent is going to other states.

The Textile park will facilitate factory sheds to be put up with ready to use facilities for the production of clothes. The KMTP shall be implemented in a phased manner depending on the market demand.

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