Textiles Committee Information

It replaced the erstwhile Cotton Textiles Fund Committee, constituted under the Cotton Textiles Fund Ordinance, which was promulgated by section 72 of the Government of India Act, 1935. This ordinance provided for the establishment of the Cotton Textiles Fund from the levy of a cess of three per cent on the ex-mill prices of cloth and yarn exported and for the setting up of the Cotton Textiles Fund Committee to administer the Fund. The Fund was to be used for supervising the export of cloth and yarn, and increasing the same of cloth and yarn abroad and generally for the development of technical education and research relating to the cotton textile industry. Among the achievements of the Cotton Textiles Fund Committee, since its formation, it deserves to be mentioned that substantial assistance was rendered to the establishments of various Textile Research Associations like ATIRA, SITRA, BTRA, NITRA and the formation of the Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil). For the first time, a scheme for the inspection of Cotton Textiles, especially for export was formulated and put into operation. In furtherance of the functions of the Cotton Textiles Fund Committee to supervise the export of cloth and yarn, a scheme for inspection of cotton textiles meant for export, popularly known as 'ITEX', was introduced on a voluntary basis in the year 1954. A year later, the factual inspection scheme was also introduced on the basis of the ITEX inspection scheme to know factually the quality of material inspected in each case. With the enactment of the Textiles Committee Act, 1963 the cotton Textiles Fund Ordinance was replaced and the Textiles Committee was established as a statutory body for ensuring the quality of textiles and textile machinery and for looking after matter connected therewith. The functions of the Committee are to ensure by such measures, as it thinks fit, standard qualities of textiles, both for internal market and for export, and the manufacture and use of standard qualities of textile machinery. The Committee has, in its ambit a vast range of functions and activities like scientific, technological and economic research, export promotion, inspection, testing, establishment of laboratories and test houses, collection of statistics for market study and research and rendering advice on all matters relating to the development of textile industry and production of textile machinery. The Committee consists of a Chairman, nominated by the Government of India, the Textile Commissioner,who is the ex-officio Vice Chairman and 21 other members comprising senior Government Officers and prominent persons from the textile industry and trade. The Member Secretary of the Committee is the Chief Executive of the organization. The Headquarter of the Committee is at Mumbai with 29 Regional Offices covering all important textiles production and export centers in the country.