Entrepreneurs, industry associations and societies can be the main promoters of Tamil Nadu’s mini textile park scheme.

The proposed mini textile park must have a minimum of three textile manufacturing units to be set up in a minimum area of two acres.The project cost now covers common infrastructure, buildings for common facilities and factory buildings for production purposes and plant and machinery.

The facilities include a testing laboratory, a design center, a training centre, trade center, warehousing facility, raw material depot, creches, canteen, workers’ hostels and offices.Common infrastructure like roads, street lights, compound walls, drainage, water supply, electric supply including captive power plant, effluent treatment plant and telecommunications have also been brought under the eligible project cost.

The project cost must not include the cost of the land. Fifty per cent of the project cost, or Rs. 2.5 crore, whichever is less, will be provided as grant.

Tamil Nadu hopes to have nearly 100 mini textile parks. The mini textile park scheme was launched in 2016. But there were no takers as the subsidy of Rs2.5 crores was given only for development of common infrastructure at the parks. This condition was modified and the subsidy could be used for any purpose - plant and machinery.