Indian Parliament awaits approval for the proposed scheme to launch seven mega funding textile parks (MITRA) from the Cabinet. As per Darshana Jardosh, Minister of State for textiles, so far, the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks has launched a Rs 1,469 crore grant, generated employment for 1.02 lakh people and attracted investments worth Rs 13,311 crore.

The second wave of COVID-19 had led to closure of all National Textile Corporation (NTC) mill operations in April, 2021. However, NTC restored operations in some mills in July, 2021 as per raw material availability. The Government has on-boarded about 1.50 lakh weavers on government e-marketplace that allows them to promote their merchandise straight to varied authorities departments and organizations and to improve productiveness, advertising and marketing capabilities and guarantee higher incomes, 125 Handloom Producer corporations have been shaped in several states.

Parliament also granted Rs 1,107.5 crore towards the pending installments of 2019-20 and former years, in 2020-21 to clear the dedicated liabilities beneath Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS),