Warangal textile park promises opportunities for locals, weavers

WARANGAL: Setting the road map for development of the weaving community and other related trades in the state, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will be laying the foundation stone for the Kakatiya Mega Textile Park in Warangal rural district on Sunday. Rao would lay foundation stone for the park at Shayampet in Geesugonda mandal and Chintalapalli in Sangem mandal, along with three other major  projects in the district.

Coming up on a sprawling 1,190 acre campus at a cost of `1,150 crore, the park is expected to attract investments to the tune of `11,500 crore. The park is likely to help generate 22,000 direct and 44,000 indirect employment opportunities in the first phase. Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services has prepared the detailed project report  and the Centre had also granted environmental clearance for the project. Presently, 12 companies have agreed to invest in the textile park with an investment to the tune of `3,000 crore.

The proposed park will have Fibre to Fabric facility, with ginning, spinning, weaving, processing and garmenting processes. After the state bifuracation, 75 per cent of the pre-division cotton-growing areas remained with Telangana.  The government contends that after this textile park starts functioning, several workers from the state who had left to work in textile mills in Surat would return. 
The government will provide infrastructure facilities including roads, power, water connectivity, common effluent treatment plant  and others required by the textile park.