Question : Removal of Hank Yarn Obligation Act

(a) whether the Government has received any request or proposal to remove Hank Yarn Obligation Act from any Association;

(b) if so, the details thereof and the steps taken in this regard;

(c) whether the Government is aware of required quantity of hank yarn for handloom sector;

(d) if so, the details of the required quantity and count-wise, per kg price;

(e) the count-wise hank yarn supplied since January 2018 to January 2020;

(f) whether the Government supplied Muga, Eri, Silk, Mulberry and Zari to Handloom sector;

(g) if so, the details and the price thereof, yarn-wise during the said period; and

(h) any steps taken by the Government to control price increase of Hank Yarn under textile control orders?

MINISTER OF TEXTILES
(SMT. SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

(a) & (b): Government has received request from various Spinning Mills, Associations with respect to hank yarn obligation. The matter was examined and Hank Yarn Packaging Obligation was revised to 30% from 40% vide notification no. 7/TDRO/6/2019 dated 07th March, 2019.
(c) to (e) : Handloom Sector is unorganized, labour intensive , mainly rural based and de-centralized, with characteristics of Cottage Industry. Weavers purchase the hank yarn from the open market, various Co-operative Societies and National Handloom Development Corporation (NHDC) Limited a CPSE of Ministry of Textiles. Therefore, exact quantity of supply of cotton hank yarn is not available. Count range wise Cotton Hank yarn supplied by NHDC under Yarn Supply Scheme is as below:-

(Period -01.01.18 to 31.01.2020)
Cotton Hank Yarn Count Range * Qty (In Lac Kgs) Value (In Lac Rs)
Up to 20s Count 611.90 99,365.17
21s to 40s Count 132.83 38,237.04
41s to 80s Count 35.73 142,19.83
Above 80s Count 2.61 1,019.88
Total - 783.07
1,52,841.92

* For count range, the resultant count is considered, i.e. for 2/120s resultant count is 60s.

Details of average price of count wise Cotton Hank Yarn for Month February 2020 is enclosed at Annexure “A”. Detailed Count wise yarn supplied through NHDC for the period 01.01.2018 to 31.01.2020 is enclosed at annexure – “B”

(f) & (g): Government supplied Muga, Eri, Silk, Mulberry, and Zari to Handloom sector; under the Yarn Supply Scheme run by Govt. of India, through NHDC to the eligible beneficiaries for production of Handloom items. Details of yarn wise (Muga, Eri, Mulberry Silk and Zari) average prices during the period 01.01.2018 to 31.01.2020 are enclosed at annexure – “C”.
(h): Price of hank yarn is not controlled by Ministry of Textiles.