Ministry of Textiles (Maharashtra)

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Ministry of Textiles
Government of Maharashtra
Ministry overview
JurisdictionIndia Maharashtra
HeadquartersMantralay, Mumbai
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Parent departmentGovernment of Maharashtra
Websitemahatextile.maharashtra.gov.in

The Ministry of Textiles is a ministry in the Government of Maharashtra. Ministry is responsible for promotion of textile industry in Maharashtra.[1]

The Ministry is headed by a cabinet level minister. Aslam Shaikh is current Minister of Cultural Affairs. Cabinet Minister is assisted by the Minister of State.[2] Rajendra Patil-Yadravkar is current Minister of State.[3]

List of Ministers of State[]

No Name Party Term of office Ministry Chief minister
1 Rajendra Patil SHS 30 December 2019 - Incumbent Uddhav Thackrey Ministry The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Uddhav Thackeray calling on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on February 21, 2020 (Uddhav Thackeray) (cropped).jpg Uddhav Thackeray

Textile in Maharashtra[]

In the second half of the 19th century, a large textile industry grew up in the Mumbai city and surrounding towns, operated by Indian entrepreneurs. Simultaneously a labour movement was organized. Starting with the Factory Act of 1881, state government played an increasingly important role in regulating the industry. The Bombay presidency set up a factory inspection commission in 1884. There were restrictions on the hours of children and women. An important reformer was Mary Carpenter, who wrote factory laws that exemplified Victorian modernization theory of the modern, regulated factory as vehicle of pedagogy and civilizational uplift. Laws provided for compensation for workplace accidents.[4]

The Great Bombay Textile Strike brought changes in textile industry. It was a textile strike called on 18 January 1982 by the mill workers of Mumbai under trade union leader Dutta Samant. The purpose of the strike was to obtain bonus and increase in wages. The majority of the over 80 textile mills in Central Mumbai closed during and after the strike, leaving more than 150,000 workers unemployed.[5] The textile industry in Mumbai has largely disappeared, reducing labour migration after the strikes.[6]

As one of the consequence of the strike, the textile industries in Mumbai shut down and moved to the periphery or to other states as the land became real estate gold mine. Mumbai's functional nature changed from being industrial to commercial.[7]

Textile parks[]

Maharashtra government is planning to set up 9 textile parks.[8]


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References[]

  1. ^ mahatextile.maharashtra.gov.in https://mahatextile.maharashtra.gov.in/. Retrieved 2021-07-15. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ "Maharashtra Textile Minister Aslam Shaikh tests Covid-19 positive". mint. 2020-07-20. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  3. ^ "Maharashtra portfolios allocated. Full list of ministers here". Hindustan Times. 2020-01-05. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  4. ^ Aditya Sarkar, Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay (2017).
  5. ^ Shiv Kumar (2005-03-25). "Maharashtra may give more mills' land for public use". The Tribune. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
  6. ^ P Devarajan (2000-03-25). "India Interior". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-20.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ Bhattacharya, Pramit (2012-08-19). "Untangling the knot between Mumbai and its mills". Livemint. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  8. ^ "Maharashtra government plans to set up 9 textile parks". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2021-07-15.

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