Karnataka is preparing to unveil its Textile and Apparel Policy 4.0, a five-year framework running from 2026 to 2031 that is meant to steer new textile mills and garment factories and jobs towards regions outside Bengaluru and the state’s other established industrial belts.
Karnataka Textiles Minister Rudrappa Lamani informed this while presiding over a review of the Handlooms and Textiles Department’s schemes and of how the corporations operating under its umbrella are performing.
He said the document would set a new course for capital deployment, employment generation and even development across the state’s textile landscape.
According to the Minister, the policy will introduce a number of fresh measures designed to carry investment and job opportunities into a wider spread of districts.
By putting geographic balance at its core, the government is signalling that sector growth should no longer be confined to Bengaluru and other comparatively advanced locations.
Lamani described the central aim as pushing textile capital and employment into the rest of Karnataka.
Silk is also set to receive particular emphasis, Lamani said. The department’s remit spans handloom activity as well as wider textile programmes, and the review session took in the progress of the various corporations attached to it.
The policy arrives as the administration tries to tie industrial investment more firmly to job creation and regional development. Delivering on that stated approach would mean spreading textile operations across many more locations rather than leaving them clustered in long-established economic hubs.
Yet the draft of the Textile Policy announcement offered no outline of how this would be achieved: the implementation structure, funding arrangements, land requirements and administrative machinery all remain unspecified.
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