Question : NTC MILLS

(a) the details of National Textile Corporation (NTC) mills as on date including the number of workers in each mill alongwith their profits/loss during the last three years, State-wise, mill-wise;

(b) the reasons for incurring the losses by these mills alongwith steps taken by the Government to make the NTC mills profitable;

(c) the details of compensation/alternative employment provided by the Government to the workers who were rendered unemployed due to closer of NTC mills during the last three years, State-wise;

(d) whether the Government has received any proposal from the Government of Maharashtra to transfer the entire land of India United Mill, No. six owned by NTC to the State Government free of cost in order to develop a memorial of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar;

(e) if so, the details thereof alongwith the steps taken by the Government in this regard; and

(f) the other modalities to be worked out by the Government in this regard?

(MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF TEXTILES) (SMT. PANABAAKA LAKSHMI)

(a): The details of mills along with the number of workers and profit/loss during the last three years is given at Annexure-I.

(b): Problems have been faced in optimum capacity utilization of the mills, on account of the acute power cuts in the State of Tamil Nadu where 7 mills are located and due to labour shortage. Despite this ,13 mills made cash profits in the year 2010-11 as can be seen from Annexure-I. In the year 2011-12, NTC, alongwith the entire textile industry, faced acute price volatility and supply side disruptions in raw cotton, which aggravated its losses. Several steps have been taken by NTC to tackle the problems. As per the Revival Scheme approved by BIFR, NTC has modernized its mills and invested Rs. 1169 crores towards modernization till date. Other initiatives taken by NTC include inter alia the provision of DG sets to deal with acute power cuts in the State of Tamil Nadu; engagement of women workers, providing transport, subsidized food etc to deal with labour shortages; obtaining ISO certification for 16 mills; utilization of Information Technology to improve efficiencies etc.

(c): NTC has offered Modified Voluntary Retirement Scheme (MVRS) to the workers affected by the closure of the unviable mills. The MVRS package covers the compensation for the service rendered as well as the balance service. Besides this, DPE has formulated a scheme for Counselling, Retraining and Redeployment (CRR) of employees of Public Sector and NTC employees are exposed to CRR programmes.

The State wise/mill wise workers opted for Modified Voluntary Retirement Scheme during the last three years and amount paid to them is at Annexure-II.

(d): Yes Madam.

(e) & (f): Earlier the Govt. of Maharashtra had asked for 4 acres of land of India United Mill No. 6 vested in National Textile Corporation (NTC) for construction of a memorial for Bharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Subsequently, the Government of Maharashtra has requested for transfer of the entire land of India United Mill No. 6 to the Government of Maharashtra for developing the Memorial.

To examine and make recommendations on the issue, a Committee consisting of officials from the Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of Environment & Forest, State Government of Maharashtra and other co-opted Members (including Ministry of Law and Justice) has been constituted. The broad Terms of Reference of the Committee are to make recommendations on the following:

# The modalities of making available the requisite land for the proposed Memorial, subject to the condition that the title and ownership of the land shall remain either with the Govt of India/NTC or with the State Govt.

# Compliance with environmental, legal and procedural requirements in the matter. # Modalities for suitably and adequately compensating NTC for making available the approximately 12 acres of land for the memorial. # Any other relevant matter.
2 Meetings of the Committee have been held.

Annexure-I

2009-10	2010-11	2011-12
S.
No.	Statewise Name of Mills	No. of Workers	Cash Profit/Loss	Cash Profit/Loss	Cash Profit/Loss
 	 	 	Rs. lakhs	Rs. lakhs	Rs. lakhs	KERALA	 	 	 	 
1	Alagappa	493	-49.93	20.84	-297.06
2	Can., Can.	254	-122.55	173.17	-306.45
3	Kerala Lakshmi	276	-120.41	69.94	-509.92
4	Vijay Mohini	224	-58.12	78.66	-283.23	MAHE	 	 	 	 
5	Cannanore Spg. & Wvg. Mills	207	-84.69	-73.40	-566.64	ANDHRA PRADESH	 	 	 	 
6	Tirupathi	61	-41.33	-41.33	-391.9	TAMIL NADU	 	 	 	 
7	Cambodia	331	-80.38	137.82	-603.78
8	Rangavilas	402	-146.28	9.33	-967.70
9	Pankaja	361	-99.22	23.97	-756.88
10	Pioneer	265	-83.10	9.45	-630.72
11	Kaleeswara Mill.`B` Unit	300	-15.12	164.36	-514.07
12	Coimb. Murugan	455	18.94	-390.76	-400.21
13	Coimb Spg. &Wvg. Mills	121	-381.57	-346.30	-376.08	KARNATAKA	 	 	 	 
14	New Minerva	163	-	128.12	-223.03	MAHARASHTRA	 	 	 	 
15	Tata	652	-699.81	-449.72	-1644.07
16	Podar	463	-351.12	-247.48	-1025.63
17	Indu No.5	441	-262.29	-69.83	-807.95
18	Barshi	248	19.54	148.49	-610.37
19	Finlay (Achalpur)	130	-	6.22	-693.66	MADHYA PRADESH	 	 	 	 
20	New Bhopal	173	-31.25	-191.13	-686.88
21	Burhanpur Tapti	118	69.19	-373.75	-236.16
 	WEST BENGAL	 	 	 	 
22	Arati	10	-42.02	102.66	-73.15	GUJARAT	 	 	 	 
23	Raj Nagar Textile Mill	18	Commercial production started w.e.f. 1.4.12	RAJASTHAN
24	Udaipur Cotton Mills	5	Slated as Technical Textile Unit.	OVERALL	-2561.52	-1110.67	-12605.54

Annexure – II
DETAILS OF NTC MILLS CLOSED DURING LAST 03 YEARS & COMPENSATION PAID
S. No.	Name of the mill closed	No. of Employees relieved	Amount of	under MVRS	compensation paid	as per MVRS Scheme	(Rs.in crores)
1.	Ananatpur Cotton Mills ,Andhra Pradesh	294	8.27
2.	SreeYallama Cotton Mills, Karnataka	313	9.64
3.	Minerva Mills, Karnataka	1936	76.76
4.	Kharar Textile Mills, Punjab	648	16.73
5.	Suraj Textile Mills, Punjab	557	13.09
6.	Shree Bijay Cotton Mills, Rajasthan	469	10.83
7.	Ahmeadabad New Textile Mills, Gujrat	1231	46.81
8.	Swadeshi Cotton Mills, Naine, U.P.	933	30.79
9.	Bihar Co-operative Mills, Bihar	407	15.88
10.	Associated Industries, Assam	177	7.21
11.	Finlay Mills, Maharashtra	1075	49.75	Total	8040	285.76