The Maharashtra government’s Cooperation, Marketing and Textile Department has proposed to develop a textile university at Harpur in South Nagpur. The textile secretary Atul Patne has stated that if the plan materialises, it will be the nation’s first textile university. The Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) has been appointed as nodal agency for planning and construction of the university which is to be developed on the State Handloom Corporation’s two-acre land.

State Handloom Corporation own five acres of land. The administrative building of the corporation will come up on one acre and other related infra on the remaining two. The NIT board of trustees appointed Nela Designers of Harish Chandani as architect and project management consultant of the project. The university will offer courses related to powerloom, handloom, spinning mills, silk, hosiery etc. However, there is no courses available in ITI, polytechnic and engineering colleges to educate the students on these fields. All these will be provided in the Textile University.