The Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved a new skill development scheme to provide demand driven and placement oriented skilling programmes to create jobs in the textile sector.
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For the last eight months, Babita Singh has been searching every lane and bylane of the 2-sq-km spread of the Noida Hosiery Complex, here on the grimy edge of India’s capital, for a tailor’s job. She leaves home at 7 a.m. and walks around till 11 a.m. when, with the first shift in place, there is no longer any hope of being called into a factory.
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India's textiles sector is likely to touch USD 250 billion in the next two years from the current level of USD 150 billion, a study said today. The joint study by Assocham and Resurgent pointed out that the textile sector in India accounts for 10 per cent of the country's manufacturing production, 5 per cent of its GDP, and 13 per cent of exports earnings.
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