Malls and high rise buildings on textile mills land

New Delhi, May 17 (UNI) Minister of State for Textiles E V K S Elangovan today informed the Rajya Sabha that the Supreme Court has given a judgment upholding the amendment made by the Maharashtra Government in 2001 in the Development Control and Regulations 58 (DCR 58).

He said the court has also observed that sale of five mills by the National Textiles Corporation (NTC) was not contrary to the scheme approved by the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR). NTC has 103.34 acres of mills' land in Mumbai for sale and out of this, 48.29 acres have already been sold by it.

The projects that are expected to come up on these lands will be developed by the buyers and they are free to carry out any develoopment including malls and high rise buildings as per the regulations framed by the local municipal authorities, the Minister said.

Replying on setting up of textiles park in Tamil Nadu, Mr Elangovan said, the Government has launched the 'Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP)' to provide the textile industry with infrastructure facilities to start their textile units.

This scheme is based on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) and would facilitate textile units to meet international standards.

The Industry Association or Group of Entrepreneurs would be the main promoters of the Integrated Textile Parks (ITP).

He also made it clear that no proposal for development of ITP at Madurai and Sivakasi has been received.

On setting up of fusion of art in Chhattisgarh, the Minister said on receipt of complete documents from the Chhattisgarh Hastshilp Vikas Board, Raipur the proposal will be evaluated for sanction as per norms.

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