It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Darshana V Jardosh

Textiles Policy / India

17 March 2023

2 minutes

The Union Minister of State for Textiles, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Thursday, informed that the allocation of textiles sector in the 2023–24 budget was ₹43,893.4 million. This is higher than the revised estinate (RE) of 2022–23 which was ₹35,796.1 million.

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