Achievements and Initiatives of Ministry of Textiles during 2014

Year End Review 2014 The new government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has stressed an economic vision based on increasing production, export and generating employment giving particular attention to: ·        Generate productive employment opportunity for the youth ·        Inclusive and participative growth ·        Skill, Scale and Speed ·        Make in India brand. ·        Zero defect - Zero Effect (on environment) ·        Adarsh Gram India’s textiles and clothing industry is one of the mainstays of the national economy. It is also one of the largest contributing sectors of India’s exports contributing nearly 13.25% of the country’s total exports basket. The textiles industry is labour intensive and is one of the largest employers. Textile industry has realized export earnings worth of 41.57 billion USD in 2013-14 The Textile industry has two broad segments, namely handloom, handicrafts, sericulture, powerlooms in the unorganized sector and spinning, apparel, garmenting, made ups in the organised sector. New Government has taken many initiatives for the development of the textiles sector. Some of the initiatives are as follows. Setting up Integrated Textile Parks The Scheme of Integrated Textile Parks is one of the flagship schemes of the Ministry of Textiles. It aims to assist small and medium entrepreneurs in the textile industry to clusterize investments in textile parks by providing financial support for world class infrastructure in the parks.  The implementation of the scheme was held up during the last one year due to administrative bottlenecks and no sanction was given for new parks. The new government moved swiftly to resolve the issues and 13 new textiles parks were approved by the Project Approval Committee (PAC) chaired by the Minister of State for Textiles (independent Charge) Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar. While these 13 textile parks will receive a grant to the extent of Rs 520 crores from government for infrastructure development, they are estimated to bring in private sector investment of about Rs 3240 crores into the sector and generate direct employment for about 35,000 persons over the next three years.   Besides, a fresh advertisement would be issued calling for proposals for more ITPs for utilization of the balance provision during the 12th plan period. Exports With a vision to create an export friendly economy the government introduced several initiatives – ·        Duty free entitlement to garment exporters for import of trimmings, embellishments and other specified items increased from 3% to 5%. This initiative is expected to generate an additional RMG exports estimated at Rs.10,000 Crore. ·        The government has also proposed to extend 24/7 customs clearance facility at 13 airports and 14 sea ports resulting in faster clearance of import and export cargo. ·        The proposal for imposing duty on branded items was dropped providing relief to the entire value chain. Development of Handloom: Specific steps have been initiated for revival of handloom industry based on its inherent strength for production of high value items. Focus is on assisting weavers with designs, marketing and improved wages.  National Institute of Fashion Technology and leading members of the fashion industry have been roped in for design support to weavers. At the same time equipment and raw material for producing clothes for the high end customers and niche market are also being provided. Higher wage coming from high value production and reducing level of transactions in marketing would enhance the wage of the handloom weavers substantially. In order to provide better marketing reach, the Ministry has launched an E-commerce initiative Flipkart. This will strengthen the existing Primary Weaver Cooperative Society by assisting entrepreneur from the weavers families for taking up production and supply directly to the customers. A Trade Facilitation Centre and Craft Museum for Varanasi has been approved in the Budget of 2014-15 to develop and promote the handloom, handicraft and silk products of Varanasi and to provide necessary help to weavers, artisans and entrepreneurs of Varanasi for boosting their marketing activities in domestic as well as international markets.  Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India has allotted 8.18 acres of land at Bada Lalpur, Varanasi. The Hon’ble Prime Minister has laid the foundation stone on 7th November, 2014 for setting up the Trade Facilitation Centre & Craft Museum.  A Trade facilitation centre at Srinagar with a total budget cost of Rs.12.30 crore was also approved by the Government under the comprehensive handicrafts Cluster Development Scheme (CHCDS) in the year 2010. M/s J&K (Sales & Exports) Corporation, Srinagar has been identified as the implementing agency for the said project as per scheme guidelines. Lakme fashion week this year dedicated a day showcasing the vibrancy and magic of Indian weavers and crafts. Synergy of handloom, handicraft with tourism has been worked out in consultation with Ministry of Tourism.  State Chief Secretaries have been requested for identifying traditional handloom weavers/handicraft artisans villages for development as “Adarsh Gram” as tourists destination. Development of Tassar handloom products like sarees, dress material and wide range of home furnishing fabric for exports typical to Bhagalpur in Bihar has been initiated under Handloom Mega Cluster Scheme.  Another mega cluster is being developed at Trichy, Tamilnadu.  Over 15,000 handloom weavers will be directly benefited under each these two clusters. The remaining new megaclusters at Surat, Bareilly, Lucknow, Kutch and Mysore announced in the Budget Speech are at various stages of implementation. Handicraft Promotion of major crafts of Varanasi namely wood carving, carpet and durry weaving, meenakari and zardozi and pottery etc. have been taken up by providing assistance to the artisans with better skill, design and supply of toolkits etc.This was formally launched by the Textiles Minister on 26.9.2014. A Skill Development Programme for training 5000 carpet weavers has been taken up through the Carpet Export Promotion Council (CEPC). An Integrated Design Project of 5 months duration for wooden toys would be organized by National Centre for Design and Product Development (NCDPD). Electric wheels were given to potters under the Design and Technological Upgradation Scheme of Handicrafts in Delhi and later at Bareilly. Silk and Pashmina India is the 2nd largest producer of Silk in the world and employs large number of skilled and unskilled tribal women. During his recent visit to Jammu & Kashmir the Hon’ble Prime minister declared a scheme for the development of nomads. Provision of Rs. 30 crore for same was made in the 2014-15 Budget, which would be utilized for ·        Promotion of Pashmina in Leh, ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir ·        Setting up a dehairing plant in Ladakh to increase productivity ·        Setting up Solar Powered Community Centers, Sheds for animals and Pucca shelters for nomads. Recognizing their contribution and efforts the Textiles Minister felicitated 54 women engaged in sericulture. NIFT Srinagar With a vision to encourage and train the youth of Jammu and Kashmir for fashion design and thereby generate employment opportunities the Government has increased its Financial Support for setting up NIFT center from 50% to 90%.

Exacting Quantities & Qualities Stated by Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation in 2014

Year end review 2014             The Ministry as the nodal agency for planning and facilitating the integrated development of statistical system in the country has been fulfilling its mandate. It has been monitoring implementation of Twenty Point Programme (TPP) and Central Sector Infrastructure Projects costing Rs.150 crore and above, besides implementation of Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).                         The Statistics Wing had been fulfilling the following responsibilities: (i)             acting as the nodal agency for planned development of the statistical system in the country (ii)           laying down and maintains norms and standards in the field of statistics (iii)          coordinating the statistical work in respect of the Ministries/Departments of the Government of India and State Statistical Bureaus (SSBs) (iv)         Preparing national accounts (including Gross Domestic Product) as well as publishing annual estimates of national product, Government and Private final consumption expenditure, Capital Formation, Savings, etc.  andcomparable estimates of State Domestic Product (SDP) (v)           compiling and releasing Consumer Price Index (CPI) Numbers and Annual Inflation rates based on these CPI numbers (vi)         maintaining liaison with International Statistical Organizations, such as, the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), ESCAP, the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), IMF, ADB, FAO, ILO, etc (vii)        compiling and bringing out reports as per the international/regional commitments such as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) India Country Report and SAARC Development Goals India Country Report (viii)      compiling and releasing the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) every month; conducting the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI); and providing statistical information to assess and evaluate the changes in the growth, composition and structure of the organised manufacturing sector (ix)         organizing and conducting periodic all-India Economic Censuses and follow-up enterprise surveys (x)           conducting large scale all-India sample surveys for creating the database needed for studying the impact of specific problems for the benefit of different population groups in diverse socio-economic areas, such asemployment, consumer expenditure, housing conditions and environment, literacy levels, health, nutrition, family welfare, etc.                          The Programme Implementation Wing had the following responsibilities: (i)             monitoring of the Twenty Point Programme (TPP) (ii)           monitoring the performance of the country’s eleven key infrastructure sectors, viz., Power, Coal, Steel, Railways, Telecommunications, Ports, Fertilizers, Cement, Petroleum & Natural Gas, Roads and Civil Aviation (iii)          monitoring of all Central Sector Projects costing Rs.150 crore and above (iv)         Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS). A.     Accordingly in the Ministry of Statistics & Programme  Implementation during 2014 Ø   The Central Statistics Office (CSO) released the First Revised Estimates of National Income, Consumption Expenditure, Savings and Capital Formation for 2012-13 on 31st January, 2014 and Advance Estimates of National Income for 2013-14 on 7th February, 2014. Four Quarterly estimates of GDP have also been released in 2014. Ø   CSO has been released Consumer Price Index [CPI (Rural/Urban/Combined)] with base 2010=100 at State/UT and all India levels and Annual inflation rates based on all India general Consumer Price Index (Combined) on point to point basis every month during 2014. Ø   CSO has been releasing Index of Industrial Production (IIP) every month during 2014, which depicts the growth of industrial sector. Ø   Results for Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2011-12 were released on 20th March 2014. ASI is the principal source of industrial statistics in India, which provides statistical information to assess and evaluate, objectively and realistically, the changes in the growth, composition and structure of organized manufacturing sector comprising activities related to manufacturing processes, repair services, gas and water supply and cold storage. Ø   Besides, CSO has released the following Reports during 2014                                     i.         Statistical  Year Book India -  2014                                   ii.         India in Figures - 2014                                  iii.         Release of Energy Statistics-2014                                 iv.         Release of Infrastructure Statistics - 2014                                   v.         Women and Men in India - 2014                                 vi.         Millennium Development Goals - India Country Report 2013                                vii.         Compendium of Environment Statistics 2013                              viii.         SAARC Social charter/SAARC Development Goals- India Country Report-2014 Ø   Besides the publication of 97th issue of ‘Sarvekshana’ and release of Unit Level Data for NSS 68th & 69th Rounds, NSSO released  the following 11  Reports during 2013-14: Ø     §     Based on NSS 66th Round (July 2009- June 2010), Reports on                                                                i.      Employment and Unemployment Situation Among Major Religious Groups in India                                                              ii.      Employment and Unemployment Situation in Cities and Towns in India §     Based on NSS 68th Round (July 2011- June 2012), Reports on                                                                   i.   Key Indicators of Employment and Unemployment in India 2011-2012                                                                 ii.   Key Indicators of Household Consumer Expenditure in India 2011-2012                                                                iii.   Employment and Unemployment Situation in India                                                               iv.   Level and Pattern of Consumer Expenditure 2011-12 §     Based on NSS 69th Round (July 2012- Dec. 2012), Reports on (i)     Key Indicators of Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Conditions in India (ii)   Key Indicators of Urban Slums in India ·     Based on  NSS 70th Round (January 2013 to December 2013), Reports on    (i)     Land and Livestock Holdings in India (ii)   All India & Investment (iii) Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households Ø     PI Wing released the following Reports during 2014 (i)             Flash Report on Central Sector Projects every month  (ii)           Flash Report for the Mega Projects (costing Rs 1000 crore and above) every month (iii)          Review Report of Infrastructure Sector Performance (iv)         Capsule Report on Infrastructure Sector Performance (v)           Quarterly Project Implementation Status Report (vi)         Capsule Report of TPP every month (vii)        Annual MPR of TPP for April 2013- March 2014 (viii)      Quarterly Report of TPP for April 2013 - March 2014 Ø      A  Data Users Workshop to understand the needs and expectations of users in the field of Industrial Statistics, National Accounts and Price Statistics was organized on 2nd July, 2014 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. A large number of participants from a wide cross-section including students, researchers, and representatives of private economic institutions, industry associations, media houses and government organizations participated. Recommendations regarding early dissemination of data and easy access to disaggregated data were made. Ø      Provisional results of Sixth Economic Census (EC) were released in New Delhi on 30th July, 2014. Fieldwork of the census was conducted during January, 2013 to April, 2014 in collaboration with States/UTs. All India Report of the sixth Economic Census is expected to be released by March 2015. Ø    Web-based system for collection of Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) data has been introduced. This will integrate data collection, validation and report generation, which will facilitate quicker release of results. Ø      The Ministry started the release of Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) since May, 2014 in order to give a clear picture of the movement of retail prices in respect of food items. These indices are released along with the Consumer Price Indices, being released separately for Rural and Urban areas, as also Combined for both the areas, on the 12th of the following month. Ø      As a part of the mechanism set up by the Government for coordinating the activities in the field of statistics in different States/UTs and at the Centre, the Ministry organizes Conference of Central and State Statistical Organizations (COCSSO) every year. The 22nd COCSSO was organized during 13-14 November 2014. The conference made recommendations for improving statistics at District level, and enhancing human resources for statistics work, their capacity building etc. Ø    India has been observing 29th June every year since 2007 as Statistics Day to mark the birth anniversary of late Professor P.C. Mahalanobis, in recognition of the contribution made by him in the field of Economic Planning and Statistics. The 8th Statistics Day was organized on 29th June, 2014 at National as well as State level with main function at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi for communication and advocacy of official statistics.

Blazing a trail

This generation of youngsters is changing the world in small and personal ways. Some young achievers and their amazing feats.

We frequently hear stories of youngsters who achieve the seemingly impossible. Knowing exactly how they’ve managed to achieve what they did is truly inspiring. Here are some achievers who, through their actions, have carved a niche for themselves in society.

Braigo creator: Shubam Banerjee

Lego has been a part of our childhood. Those colourful little blocks were what made us proud, pretend engineers and filled us with a sense of purpose. We’ve built cars, houses, spaceships, and everything else we can possibly imagine, until we grew older and decided we had outgrown it. However, with Shubam Banerjee, it is a different story altogether. He never stopped playing with his Lego. This 13-year-old from San Jose, U.S. built the Braigo, a spinoff from Braille and Lego, in a bid to change lives. Banerjeecame across a flyer seeking donations for an organisation that helped the visually-impaired and he wanted to do something for them. He looked up details on the internet and realised Braille printers were expensive. Armed with a Lego model Mindstorms EV3, he fitted the blocks together, made a printing unit which he hooked to a robot, and voila, the Braigo was born. It costs $350, much less than a regular Braille printer would.

Whizkid alert: Rueben Paul

This eight-year-old who is not old enough to open a Facebook or Twitter account is an expert on cyber security. He started learning about computer languages when he was barely seven and went on to design his own computer projects. He’s also the CEO of his start-up, Prudent Gaming. What’s more, so well-versed is Rueben in the nuances of cyber security that he was invited to address a conference earlier this year along with Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh, Home Ministry Joint Secretary, Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi, and others.

Smooth sailing: Chitresh Tatha

At 12 years, Chitresh has figured out he is supposed to be sailing the high seas. This young lad from Tamil Nadu is the youngest sailor from the country to participate in the Asian Games that was held at Incheon, South Korea this year. His interest in sailing was ignited when he saw his sister, Meghna, sailing in the Laser Radial category and decided to try his hand. He fell hook, line and sinker for the sport and since then, there’s been no looking back. He has been sailing since he was eight, training under coach Pete Conway and assistant coach Umesh Naiksatam from the Yachting Association of India.He sails in the Optimist Dinghy category and also won the gold medal in the India International Regatta (Under-12) last year.

Scaling heights: Malavath Poorna

On May 25 this year, Malavath Poorna became the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest. Poorna, who achieved the feat along with Sadhanapally Anand Kumar (18), are students of the AP Social Welfare Residential Education Institutions Society (APSWREIS). An exultant Poorna said, “The world is very small.” She left a picture of B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India’s Constitution, on the Everest along with a national flag and a flag of her school. It took Poorna a course in mountaineering and arduous preparation for 52 days to climb her way to fame and success.

Reaching out: D.R. Prathyusha

Natural disasters always evoke sympthy. The devastation in the wake of disaster, both in terms of life and property, is huge. Families are separated while many others are displaced. But how many of us go beyond feeling upset and do something concrete to help the distressed? That’s where D.R. Pratyusha, a Std. XI student of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, made a difference. While most people expressed empathy to those affected in the Jammu and Kashmir floods, Pratyusha from Kuwait voluntarily collected and contributed around 1,000 Kuwait dinars to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund after listening to the Prime Minister’s appeal for assistance to the flood victims.

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Harnessing Information Technology for Good Governance

Globally governments have to communicate regularly with citizens. Efficient and effective communication was, is and will remain as one of the key vehicles to achieve good governance for any government.

Instruments like drums were a medium that governments used to reach out to people, that have been now replaced by internet and data. The power of internet and information technology has helped hasten the speed of communication, resulting in information reaching out to the targeted group seamlessly.

          Information Technology has ensured that a policy decision taken by the government can be quickly executed and implemented at multiple locations, across the length and breadth of the country. It also ensures transparency, accountability—while assuring quick and effective responsiveness of government, to citizens’ problems and suggestions.

          A SWOT (strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis of Information Technology’s role in improved governance, throws light on the benefits, citizen enjoy from good governance. It also indicates that India as a country has not yet fully benefitted, from the power of IT in achieving good governance. There are only islands of success.

          But the success stories, howsoever modest, have demonstrated that each one of them carry a huge potential, for it to be replicated in a large scale, across state and nation—to achieve good governance.

          Take the example of Government of Chhattisgarh that has used ICT based module to reform, to improve its Public Distribution System (PDS) that also ensures a transparent and accountable delivery mechanism.

          To address the leakages in PDS, the State of Chhattisgarh implemented an end-to-end information technology solution in 2007. Operations at every level of the scheme - from procurement of produce, to storage and transportation to state warehouses and Fair Priced Shops- have been computerized.

          There is continuous monitoring of operations at all levels via reports uploaded onto the web in real time. Web management has led to enhanced accountability of operations. The online platform provides an account of commodity stocks which helps decision makers in utilizing the inventory of commodities with greater efficiency.

          A unique feature of PDS in Chhattisgarh is the innovative citizen interface portal through which citizens can track the movement of PDS commodities and also register their grievances.

          The ICT solution being used in Chhattisgarh is showing very encouraging results and states like Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have showed interest in rolling out a similar procedure

          Then there is Karnataka State Government that has successfully eradicated corruption in getting land records. Bhoomi is the Land Records computerization effort by the Government of Karnataka. Work on the project launched in 1999. In 2001, the first online services were provided to the citizens and other stakeholders of the project Bhoomi has not only sustained its commendable levels of service achieved in 2006, but has also made very significant progress. Currently, as many as two and half crores of property records are being issued to citizens every year, under the Bhoomi programme.

          The Record of Rights (ROR) is now made available at the doorsteps of farmers also through as many as 800 tele-centres, in addition to the erstwhile centres at the taluka level. The process has now been extended to the village as a unit from the erstwhile sub-taluka level unit.

Similarly the Gujarat Government’s e-Dhara, (renames e-Jamin) the computerized system of land records has been a tremendous success. All 225 Talukas of 26 districts are connected by Gujarat state wide area network (GSWAN). The number of property records issued from e-Dhara has gone up from 1.58 crores to more than 3 crore per year as per the last estimates.

          In 2007-08, these RORs started getting issued from e-Gram centres at village panchayats and people did not have to go to Talukas. Through centralization of all the 227 land record databases, which was effected in 2010, the RORs can now be delivered from anywhere.

          e-Dhara incorporated a feature to capture photographs and finger-prints of owners to enable secured transactions under registration. Finger Print Scanners have been provided at the Taluka level for verification by the Deputy Mamlatdar. These and other measures have increased the security of data manifold.

          In 2011, all transactions were centralized by bringing data from all the 227 e-Dhara centres to a central server. This increased central control over data.  The project is also financially self sustaining, by generating about Rs. 2 crore per month from the fees charged for the RoR copies being issued from the e-Jamine system.

          The above three cases illustrate how good governance can be achieved and also sustainable, with help of Information technology.

          A number of government services that were plagued with corruption delay and were out of reach for people, are now operating successfully, after IT was introduced. Securing a passport and driving licence were a major project for an individual.  The use of IT in booking of railway tickets has ensured more transparency and comfort for the traveler.

          The emphasis laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the ramparts of Red Fort on August 15 this year, ensures that more success stories of good governance using IT are assured, when he said, “E-governance is easy governance, effective governance and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.”

          Good governance is not an exclusive agenda of a political party, a leader or one state in India. It is the way that everyone responsible for governance has to deliver. It is an assurance to the people who have chosen their representative, to make policies and also execute them, efficiently.

          Various leaders, political, spiritual, academic and corporate have spoken about the need to have good governance, as an essential tool for development of a nation.  Mahatma Gandhi said, “We must become the change we want to see.” This is the message for all those who wish to achieve good governance.

          Information Technology is a powerful tool that this generation of policy makers and executers are blessed with. The opportunity to use it for good governance exists, so does the danger of losing it. It will be an interesting journey, amidst fast growing number of mobile devices, broadband, new operating systems and ingenious applications. Each of them is a platform to achieve good governance.