Patna: LJP (RECREATIONAL VEHICLE) principal and union priest Chirag Paswan has actually contacted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, prompting him to open up a huge fabric park under ‘PM Mitra Yojana’ in Bhagalpur, called silk city and additionally for its significant populace of Muslim weavers.
In his letter, Chirag competed that addition of a historical community like Bhagalpur in ‘PM Mitra Yojana’ would certainly not just link the area’s abundant historic heritage with modernity yet a brand-new instructions can be offered to the area’s economic climate.
“Bhagalpur represents India`s ancient and rich tradition of textile industry. Bhagalpuri Silk is known as ‘Queens of Fabrics’ across the world, an identity of Indian handicrafts for centuries. There is still a huge demand for Bhagalpuri silk products in Japan, Europe, West Asia, and other countries. More than 50,000 weaver families are directly or indirectly connected with the silk industry in Bhagalpur,” he included.
Setting up a huge fabric park in Bhagalpur will certainly produce significant work possibilities, advertise entrepreneurship and exports, and social empowerment, he insisted.
As numerous as 7 Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) parks will certainly be developed to improve the fabric industry in the nation. These parks will certainly be established at Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu), Navsari (Gujarat), Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Dhar (Madhya Pradesh), Lucknow(Uttar Pradesh), Warangal, (Telangana) and Amravati (Maharashtra).
Union Textiles Minister, and BJP MP from Begusarai, Giriraj Singh, runs the gauntlet from his political challengers on and off for not Bihar being picked for a huge fabric park. Once when a press reporter asked a question on it, Giriraj fired back and stated states which met the standards were designated huge fabric parks. “Why you ask such a negative question,” he commented, while sharing his suffering over the media inquiry.
RJD MP Sanjay Yadav stated that a proposition was sent out to the main federal government for opening up a huge fabric park at Chanpatia in West Champaran by recognizing 1700 acres of land when the sector division was with his celebration throughout the previous 17-month lengthy grand partnership regimen. Bihar meets all standards yet still the Centre did not accept a huge fabric park, he included.