April 15, 2026 12:33 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
'ECI deviated from Bihar procedure': Supreme Court raises concerns over voter deletion in Bengal SIR | Noida workers’ protest turns violent: Stones pelted, vehicles damaged over wage hike demand | Oil prices jump above $103 a barrel as US moves to block Iran-linked shipping | I don’t care if they come back or not, says Trump after Iran talks collapse | Legendary singer Asha Bhosle suffers cardiac arrest, hospitalised | Big boost to India–Mauritius ties: S. Jaishankar hands over 90 e-buses | Middle East tension: Iranian delegation arrives in Islamabad for major talks, 10,000 security personnel deployed | Ranveer Singh visits RSS HQ amid Dhurandhar 2 success, triggers speculation | ED raids ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee; SSC scam resurfaces ahead of polls | Amit Shah promises UCC, ₹3,000 aid per month for women and youth in BJP’s Bengal manifesto

Textiles Ministry to come out with roadmap for welfare of jute industry

| | Sep 06, 2016, at 10:18 pm
Kolkata, Sept 6 (IBNS): Union Minister of Textiles Smriti Zubin Irani participated in a meeting with jute stakeholders’ at Kolkata on Tuesday.

Discussions were held on various strategies that can be adopted for short-term mitigation of the problems being faced by the industry as well as policy interventions that can revive the jute sector in long term.

The Minister obtained feedback on the ground level problems confronting the workers, mill-owners and other stakeholders.

The Secretary of Union Ministry of Textiles Rashmi Verma, who was also present in the meeting said, decision to prepare a roadmap for welfare of jute industry has been adopted.

Verma also said that in future more such brain-storming sessions will be held for overall betterment of jute industry.

Apart from the mill- owners and workers’ associations, Jute Commissioner Subrata Gupta was also present along with other stakeholders’ of the jute industry in the meeting.  

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Related Videos
RBI announces repo rate cut Jun 06, 2025, at 10:51 am
FM Nirmala Sitharaman presents Budget 2025 Feb 01, 2025, at 03:45 pm
Nirmala Sitharaman on Budget 2024 Jul 23, 2024, at 09:30 pm