Growth of Textile Industry

BACKGROUNDER

The contribution of the textile industry in terms of percentage to industrial production and export earnings is constant at 12% during the last three years an d current year. Textile Industry generated direct employment to over 35 million people. In order to increase the employment in the textile industry Government has launched various schemes namely integrated Skill Development Scheme(ISDS) and Sc heme for Integrated Textile Parks(SITP). The role of the Government is to ensure conducive policy environment and encourage investment. Government has taken var ious steps and launched schemes namely Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme(TUFS), SITP, ISDS, etc. In the direction of encouraging and catalyzing investment in T extile sector. For modernisaton of weaving sector, subsidies (both interest rei mbursement (IR) and Capital subsidy (CS)have been increased from 5% to 6% and 10 % to 15% respectively. Margin money subsidy has been increased from 20% to 305 i n TUFS. Integrated Processing Development Scheme (IPDS) with a budget outlay of Rs.500 crores has been approved for modernisation of Processing sector. The seco nd quarter of the current financial year , Textile sector has added to 66,000 jo bs . Infact,62% of total jobs created in the textile sector were contributed by the exporting units. Exporters gave jobs to 41,000 people. Textile sector was on e of the few sector showing a growth in the index of the industrial production f igures . As per the latest official figure, while total industrial production c ontracted to 0.21% in Apr-Nov, Textile sector output rose to 3.7%.

There is no shortage of cotton /yarn in the country to meet the requirement of domestic textile industry .For the current cotton season 2013-14(oct-sept) t here is an estimated total availability of cotton at 427 lakh bales against the total estimated demand at 387 lakh bales which is adequate to meet the requireme nt of textile industry. To encourage exports including export of processed clothes, incentives are av ailable under the Foreign Trade Policy namely Interest subvention , Market Acces s Initiative(MAI), Market Development Assistance(MDA)Schemes and Focus Market & Focus Product Schemes. The Ministry of Textiles has adopted four pronged strateg y for Textiles exports namely larger textiles trade shows, skill development ini tiatives, compliance programes and duty drawback schemes. A provision of Rs.500 crore has been made in the 12th plan for introducing a scheme for Integrated Pro cessing Development. Source: Textile Ministry DS/SJM ========== Comparison of the Indian Electorate from 1951 1952 To 2014 Size & Gender-Wise Composition of the Indian Electorate over Successive General Elections Electorate Size Becomes More than 4.7 Times Between 1951 1952 & 2014

A comparison of the electoral data as per the final publication of summary revis ion 2014 (released by the Election Commission of India on 14th February, 2014) w ith that of previous General Elections shows that the total electorate size of t he country grew from 173,212,343 electors in the 1st General Elections of 1951 1 952 to become 814,591,184 in 2014 - more than 4.7 times the figure in 1951 52. Re lative to 1971 (the year since when the sex-wise break-up of electors is availab le), the size of the total electorate grew by 197.1% or became 2.97 times. Furth er, both the number of male electors and the number of female electors became 2. 97 times of their respective numbers in 1971. The proportion of female electors in the Indian electorate has showed little variation since 1971, always hovering between 47.4% and 48.0%. ========== An Analysis of the Indian Electorate from 1998 To 2014 Change in Size and Spatial Distribution of the Indian Electorate between The 12t h And The 16th General Elections Indian Electorate Grows In Size By 34.45% between 1998 And 2014 A comparison of the electoral data as per the final publication of summary revis ion 2014 (released by the Election Commission of India on 14th February, 2014) w ith that of last four General Elections (from 1998 onwards) shows that the total electorate size of the country grew by 34.45% from 605,880,192 electors in 1998 to reach 814,591,184 in 2014. This growth was 21.31% relative to an electorate size of 671,487,930 in 2004. Among the 28 states and 7 union territories, Dadra & Nagar Haveli at 53.9% registered the highest rate of growth in electorate size during the period from 2004 to 2014, next followed by Puducherry at 39.1%. Amon g states, West Bengal registered the highest rate of growth at 31.7%. Among all states and UTs, Andaman & Nicobar Islands registered the lowest rate of growth a t 6.7%, next followed by Jammu & Kashmir at 8.9%. In absolute numbers, Uttar Pra desh registered the highest growth in electorate size relative to 2004, while La kshadweep the lowest. =========