INDIA TEXTILE AND CLOTHING LOOKS TO STRONGER SUPPORT AND MORE TRADE DEALS AFTER GENERAL ELECTION

As India goes to the polls over the next seven weeks leading to a new (or more likely renewed) government taking charge in early June, the country's clothing and textile industry is foreseeing a continuity of policies albeit with investment promotion schemes being strengthened and more free trade agreements being struck. In the past years, the industry has been supported by schemes such as the PM Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel Parks (PM MITRA) programme (PM standing for Prime Minister); the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme and the Scheme for ...


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