Ministry of Textiles Organizes Departmental Summit on Textiles for Global Markets
The Ministry of Textiles inaugurated a two-day Departmental Summit on "Textiles for Global Markets: Strategy for Achieving USD 100 Billion Exports by 2030" in New Delhi. The summit is organized under the Cabinet Secretariat's initiative to strengthen Centre-State collaboration and foster cooperative federalism in achieving national development goals.
Aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to transform India into a global textile powerhouse, the summit aims to chart a coordinated roadmap to increase textile and apparel exports from approximately USD 37 billion to USD 100 billion by 2030. The strategy follows the Prime Minister's vision of "Farm to Fibre, Fibre to Factory, Factory to Fashion and Fashion to Foreign."
The event brought together senior representatives from all States and Union Territories, district administrations, Export Promotion Councils, industry associations, exporters, financial institutions, academia, and other stakeholders. This summit represents the culmination of an extensive consultative exercise that included 36 State and UT consultations, nearly 200 district-level consultations, and participation of more than 5,000 stakeholders. This process resulted in the preparation of 36 State Export Action Plans (SEAPs) and 200 District Export Action Plans (DEAPs).
Union Minister of Textiles Shri Giriraj Singh emphasized the importance of district-led export growth, product diversification, value addition, target setting for Champion and Aspirational Districts, technical textiles, creation of branded products, sustainability, skilling, and improved market access. Minister of State for Textiles and External Affairs Shri Pabitra Margherita and Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Smt. Neelam Shami Rao also addressed the gathering, emphasizing state governments as catalysts for exports, decentralized thought process, value addition, product diversification, and brand creation.
Two publications were released during the session: "Leveraging India's recent FTAs – A Textiles Perspective" and "How to Export – A Textiles Perspective."
Summit Session Details
The first day featured three sessions. The first session focused on intensive policy deliberations on district and cluster-led export strategies, competitiveness, and export ecosystem. It provided an in-depth perspective on four major textile clusters—Ludhiana, Tiruppur, Surat, and Bhadohi—with insights from exporters, senior representatives from export promotion councils, and senior government officials from respective states. Discussions covered growth trajectories, challenges, and strategic pathways to boost exports, particularly emphasizing the need to shift from cotton-dominated production to man-made fibre (MMF)-based consumption to align with global demand patterns.
The second session focused on product and design enhancement, value addition, consumer alignment, material innovation, technical textiles opportunities, and brand identity. It highlighted the Northeast's textile identity with focus on GI products as heritage markers, along with successful entrepreneurial initiatives in technical textiles, luxury segments such as Pashmina, and rural cooperatives. Key priorities included strengthening design and branding, driving product innovation and consumer-aligned development, enhancing traceability and material advancement, and promoting local collectives and value addition.
The third session addressed key export enablers including credit, logistics, infrastructure, PM-MITRA Parks, State-led policy and incentive support, technology adoption, labour compliance, and skill development. The session focused on improving competitiveness by addressing cost disabilities, strengthening logistics and connectivity, and promoting integrated manufacturing ecosystems, highlighting successful state and industry models.
States and Union Territories also participated in thematic breakaway sessions to deliberate on region-specific opportunities, challenges, and priority interventions emerging from their State and District Export Action Plans.
The recommendations emerging from the Summit will be consolidated into a comprehensive National Textile Export Roadmap 2030, providing strategic direction for expanding India's textile exports, strengthening district and cluster ecosystems, promoting sustainable and value-added production, enhancing utilization of trade agreements, and positioning India as a preferred global sourcing destination.