Textile key source of economic livelihood after agriculture: Giriraj Singh

Union Textile Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday night said the textile sector turning into another key source of income for the people after agriculture.Speaking at a road show in the run up to the Bharat Tex 2025, the Global Textile Expo in New Delhi in February, Singh said 4.6 crore people are employed in the textile sector in the country at present, which is substantially higher from the figure before 2014."Going by the roadmap by 2030 the number of people sustaining from the sector will reach the six crore mark in 2030," he said.Underscoring that the Narendra Modi government has made innovation as the bottomline for the goal of 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat', he said "Before 2014 there was no start up whereas now 1.5 lakh people are associated with start-up ventures."Singh said a new concept of technical textile has added a new dimension and it has greatly benefited the medical sector churning out products like sanitary napkins and masks.Singh said by 2030 AD, 13 million tonnes