India has committed to promote sustainability and circularity within its textile sector. A unit will be created within the ministry of textiles specifically dedicated to sustainability issues. Although the Indian textile sector is gradually being equipped with common effluent treatment plants, the sector is still facing effluent management problems due to the unavailability of data on waste generations from processing clusters.

The success of the Indian textile industry is largely based on an abundance of raw materials, particularly cotton. India is one of the world’s pillars of the textile and clothing industry. In addition to its massive domestic market, the sector is the European Union’s fourth largest supplier of clothing and its third largest supplier of textiles. India is also the third largest supplier of textiles and clothing to the US.

So Indian textile exports have a huge growth potential. With some 45 million employees in its textile industry, India is also the world's second largest cotton producer, behind China, with six million tons produced in the 2021-2022 season. This position will prove important in the coming months after the destruction of a large part of the cotton crops of its neighbor, Pakistan, which is the fifth largest cotton producer in the world.