The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), the apex industry chamber covering the entire spectrum of the textile and clothing industry for both domestic and export markets, will submit the ‘White Paper’ to the new Union Textile Minister to provide policy support to the textile and industry.

CITI will request the government to provide the much needed policy support to the industry. This will not only achieve the revolutionary initiative of ‘Make in India’ but also make Indian textile and clothing sector a $350 billion industry by 2024-25.

The last five-years have been a period of consolidation, policy disruptions and shaping up of a new India where many structural reforms took place in the Indian economy and specifically in the textile and clothing industry. The industry has gone through a phase of consolidation where exports stagnated, aggressive state policies directed investments and domestic demand was disturbed due to demonetisation, banking restructuring and implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST).