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All seven PM MITRA textile park sites finalised

Sites for the integrated textile-park scheme are now fixed across seven states, with the seven parks together drawing Rs 63,177 crore in declared investment interest.

What happened

The Ministry of Textiles told the Rajya Sabha that the Government has approved all seven PM Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) Parks by finalising the sites for every one of them.
The seven locations are Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu), Warangal (Telangana), Navsari (Gujarat), Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Dhar (Madhya Pradesh), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Amravati (Maharashtra) — one park in each of seven states.
Total investment interest of Rs 63,177 crore has been received across the seven parks so far, far exceeding the scheme's own central outlay.
Each completed park is expected to generate roughly 3 lakh direct and indirect jobs across the textile value chain, benefitting all segments of the population.
Progress is monitored through a layered committee structure — a Project Approval Committee (PAC), a Park Monitoring Committee, and a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) set up for each greenfield and brownfield park.
The reply situated the parks within a wider competitiveness push, noting India is the world's sixth-largest exporter of textiles and apparel, with USD 37.75 billion in exports in 2024–25 and a presence in over 200 markets.

Background & context

PM MITRA is the textile sector's flagship industrial-cluster scheme. It was announced in the Union Budget for 2021–22 and approved by the Union Cabinet in October 2021, with the formal notification issued on 21 October 2021. The scheme carries a central outlay of Rs 4,445 crore spread over five years, and its administering ministry is the Ministry of Textiles. The seven parks were always meant to be exactly seven — the number is a fixed feature of the scheme, not a running tally — and this release marks the milestone at which the last of those seven sites was locked in across seven different states.

The idea behind PM MITRA is to build the entire textile value chain — spinning, weaving, processing, dyeing, printing and garmenting — inside a single integrated location, an approach the Government brands as a "farm-to-fashion" / 5F vision (Farm to Fibre to Factory to Fashion to Foreign). This is a deliberate break from India's older model of dispersed, fragmented textile units, where raw material, processing and apparel-making sat in different states and incurred heavy logistics costs. By co-locating the chain, PM MITRA aims to cut transaction and freight costs, attract scale investment, and make Indian textiles price-competitive against larger exporting rivals.

Each park is built on the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) model: a company jointly owned by the Central and the concerned State Government develops and runs the park, with the State providing the land. The scheme distinguishes between greenfield parks (built on fresh land) and brownfield parks (developed on existing textile-cluster land), and the central support differs accordingly. The Centre provides Development Capital Support of up to Rs 500 crore per greenfield park and up to Rs 200 crore per brownfield park for common infrastructure, plus a Competitiveness Incentive Support (CIS) of up to Rs 300 crore per park to help manufacturing units come up early. That structure is why the scheme's modest Rs 4,445-crore central layout is designed to crowd in many times that amount in private investment — the Rs 63,177-crore interest figure in this release is precisely that leverage at work.

For Prelims

Full form: PM MITRA = Pradhan Mantri Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel Parks. "MITRA" is an acronym, not the Hindi word for friend.
Launched / approved: announced in Budget 2021–22; Cabinet-approved and notified in October 2021 (21 October 2021).
Nodal ministry: Ministry of Textiles (Union). The minister tabling this reply was the Minister for Textiles.
Outlay & period: Rs 4,445 crore over five years (central outlay) — distinct from the Rs 63,177 crore of investment interest the parks have drawn.
Number of parks: exactly seven — Virudhunagar (TN), Warangal (TG), Navsari (GJ), Kalaburagi (KA), Dhar (MP), Lucknow (UP), Amravati (MH); one each in seven states.
Delivery model: Central–State Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) per park; greenfield vs brownfield categories with different support ceilings.
Central support: Development Capital Support up to Rs 500 cr (greenfield) / Rs 200 cr (brownfield) per park, plus Competitiveness Incentive Support up to Rs 300 cr per park.
Vision: the "5F" / farm-to-fashion value chain — Farm → Fibre → Factory → Fashion → Foreign — built inside one integrated park.
Monitoring chain: Project Approval Committee (PAC) → Park Monitoring Committee → park-level SPV.
Trade context (source-anchored): India is the 6th-largest textiles-and-apparel exporter; USD 37.75 bn exports in 2024–25; presence in 200+ markets.
Sibling schemes named in the reply: RoSCTL / RoDTEP (tax-rebate schemes), the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for MMF Fabric, MMF Apparel and Technical Textiles, and the National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM, launched 2020, outlay Rs 1,480 crore). For handloom and handicrafts: the National Handloom Development Programme, Raw Material Supply Scheme, National Handicrafts Development Programme (NHDP) and Comprehensive Handicrafts Cluster Development Scheme (CHCDS).
Also approved (source-anchored): an Export Promotion Mission (EPM) anchored by the Department of Commerce, whose NIRYAT PROTSAHAN component improves affordable trade finance for MSME exporters through interest subvention, export factoring, collateral guarantees and credit support.

What it is NOT: PM MITRA is not the same as the older Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP), which funded many smaller dispersed parks; PM MITRA is a small set of large, integrated mega-parks. It is also distinct from any separate "challenge-mode" parks announced in a later Budget, from the PLI textile scheme (an incentive, not a park), and from the National Technical Textiles Mission (a research-and-skilling mission for technical textiles, not a park scheme). "MITRA" is an acronym; do not read it as the dictionary word.

For UPSC: PM MITRA = seven integrated "farm-to-fashion" textile mega-parks, one each in seven states (TN, TG, GJ, KA, MP, UP, MH), under the Ministry of Textiles, Rs 4,445 cr / 5 years, built on Central–State SPVs split into greenfield (up to Rs 500 cr) and brownfield (up to Rs 200 cr) categories plus up to Rs 300 cr CIS each.

Why it matters

The problem PM MITRA addresses is structural fragmentation. India has the raw-material base — it is a leading producer of cotton, jute, silk and man-made fibre — but its textile units have historically been scattered, small, and burdened by the cost of moving fibre, yarn, fabric and garments between distant locations. That fragmentation raises logistics costs and erodes the price advantage Indian textiles should enjoy, letting more consolidated competitors capture market share in apparel. By co-locating the whole chain inside one park with plug-and-play factory space, common processing utilities, power, water, effluent treatment and worker housing, the scheme is meant to lower the cost of doing business and pull in anchor investors at scale.

The Rs 63,177-crore investment interest reported here is the headline signal of that pull: it is several times the scheme's own central outlay, which is the entire point of a leverage-led industrial policy. Employment is the second lever — each park is projected to create around 3 lakh direct and indirect jobs, and because spinning, weaving and garmenting are labour-intensive and absorb large numbers of women and semi-skilled workers, the parks double as an inclusive-growth instrument, not merely an export one. The third lever is competitiveness: pairing the parks with PLI, RoSCTL/RoDTEP rebates and the technical-textiles mission is intended to move India up the value chain from commodity fibre toward higher-value apparel and technical textiles, where margins and resilience are greater. Against the backdrop of India's USD 37.75-billion textile exports and presence in 200-plus markets, the parks are framed as the supply-side capacity that a more ambitious export target would require.

For Mains

Anchor

A question on India's industrial-cluster and manufacturing-competitiveness policy can be built around PM MITRA as the lead case study — the integrated mega-park as a model for cutting logistics cost and crowding in private investment in a labour-intensive sector.

Exemplification

Use PM MITRA as a concrete example of co-locating an entire value chain ("farm-to-fashion") and of the Central–State SPV delivery model, when illustrating infrastructure-led industrial growth or cooperative federalism in economic policy.

Substantiation

Deploy the hard numbers — seven parks across seven states, Rs 4,445-crore outlay, Rs 63,177-crore investment interest, ~3 lakh jobs per park, USD 37.75 bn exports — as evidence of leverage in an investment-led growth answer.

Way-forward

Present the park-plus-incentive stack (PM MITRA + PLI + RoSCTL/RoDTEP + NTTM + Export Promotion Mission) as a way forward for moving Indian textiles from commodity fibre toward higher-value apparel and technical textiles.

Deploys into: infrastructure & industrial policy for a labour-intensive export sector (GS3.9); liberalisation/industrial-policy and competitiveness of Indian manufacturing (GS3.8); inclusive growth and employment generation in the textile value chain.

Ministry of Textiles · 2026-03-27 · PRID 2245977 · PIB source ↗

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