INDIAN STATE-OWNED TEXTILE MILL POLICY DRAWS CRITICISM

A former chief official at the Indian textiles ministry has attacked government plans to prolong the life of loss-making state-owned textile mills. TSR Subramanian, the former secretary at the ministry told just-style: “Government should focus on making policies and not run mills.”He was speaking after India’s new right-of-centre government confirmed that it will continue to run at least six currently loss-making mills, run by the National Textile Corporation (NTC). “Our government has no intention of selling these mills,” Santosh Gangwar, India’s ...


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