Bhilwara: Chief secretary V Srinivas stressed the importance of textile research and called for organising a global conference of textile experts in Bhilwara. He said this during his visit to the Bhilwara Circuit House Friday, where he was received by district collector Jasmeet Singh Sandhu and SP Dharmendra Singh and launched the district’s first “Viksit Bharat Gram Abhiyan”. He later inspected Nitin Spinners on Chittorgarh Road and interacted with with textile entrepreneurs and farmers.Addressing the press, Srinivas said cotton cultivation in Bhilwara had increased over the years and the textile industry in Bhilwara was progressing steadily as yarn exports from the district has increased. He noted that the number of spindles in the district had increased from around 60,000 to nearly 15 lakh. “Now we have a vision to scale it up to 50 lakh spindlers under the under the Viksit Bharat and Viksit Rajasthan vision for the year 2047,” he added.Srinivas then talked about how the cultivation of Kasturi cotton was doing well in the district. He said this it would be boosted by the ‘Industrial Park Policy 2026′ that was launched two days ago by the state govt. He also referred to the ‘Textile and Apparel Policy 2025′ that was implemented last year in Dec and said govt is continiously making efforts to strengthen textile growth in areas such as Rupaheli in the district and how integrated growth could be achieved in the textile industry.Srinivas said extra-long staple cotton was being cultivated on around 30,000 hectares in Bhilwara and 11,000 hectares in Banswara. He said meetings would be held with the officials of the agriculture department, Cotton Corporation of India, and ginning factories on how to further increase this cultivation. He said a lot of growth potential has been observed in this sector and the state govt would move forward under the two policies launched by the state govt to keep up with this growth.
