Question : CLOSURE OF NTC MILLS



(a) the names of National Textiles Corporation mills and number of employees working there at present, mill-wise and state-wise;

(b) the profit earned and losses suffered by these mills during each of the last three years, mill-wise;

(c) the mills declared sick/closed during the above period, state-wise;

(d) the number of workers affected due to closure of sick mills and the steps taken for their rehabilitation;

(e) the number of employees offered/opted Voluntary Retirement Scheme and the expenditure incurred thereon during the above period, state/mill-wise;

(f) the changes proposed in the current V.R.S.; and

(g) the steps taken/proposed to be taken to reopen revive the sick mills alongwith the amount incurred thereon, mill-wise?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF TEXTILES ( SHRI SHANKERSINH VAGHELA )

(a) NTC has at present, 53 mills under its control which have been identified as viable as per the scheme approved by BIFR. A statement showing the names of the mills state-wise, number of employees working therein as on 1.11.2004 is enclosed as Annexure ‘I’.

(b) A statement showing profit & loss position of the 53 viable mills during the last three years mill-wise is enclosed as Annexure ‘II’.

(c) to (e) As per the Scheme approved by BIFR, 66 mills have been identified as unviable and are to be closed. 36357 employees in these 66 mills have availed the benefit of Modified Voluntary Retirement Scheme (MVRS) due to closure of these mills and an expenditure of Rs.1228.07 crores has been incurred on this account. For the rehabilitation of the affected employees, Deptt. of Public Enterprises has formulated a Scheme for re-counselling, re-training and re-deployment of employees of Public Sector Enterprises who are relieved before attaining superannuation on account of various reasons including Voluntary Retirement Scheme. A statement showing the names of the closed mills, state-wise, the number of employees who have availed MVRS, and the amount of expenditure incurred, mill-wise, as on 15.11.2004 is enclosed as Annexure ‘III’.

(f) At present, there is no proposal to change the existing Voluntary Retirement Scheme.

(g) Out of 119 NTC mills, BIFR has approved revival of 53 viable mills through modernization at an estimated cost of Rs.736 crores. Out of remaining 66 unviable mills, 65 mills have been closed so far under the ID Act and the closure of one mill is under process.

Statement showing name of the viable mills and the manpower as on 01.11.2004. 

S.No	NAME OF THE MILLS	TOTAL NO. OF EMPLOYEES AS ON 01.11.2004
  NTC (APKKM) LTD.
ANDHRA PRADESH
1 TIRUPATHI COTTON MILLS RENIGUNTA 100 2 ANANTHAPUR COTTON MILLS TADAPATRI 289
KARNATAKA
3 MINERVA MILLS BANGALORE 1002 4 SREE YALLAMA COTTON MILLS DAVANGERE 310
KERAKA
5 ALGAPPA TEXT. MILLS ALAGAPPA 726 6 CANNANORE SPG.WVG. MILLS CANN. CANNANORE 409 7 KERALA LAXMI MILLS TRICHUR 532 8 VIJAYMOHINI MILLS TRIVANDRUM 341 9 PARAVATHI MILLS QUILON 679
PONDICHERRY
10 CANNANORE SPG.WVG, MILLS MAHA MAHA 399 NTC (DPR) LTD
PUNJAB
11 KHARAR TEXT. MILLS KHARAR 695 12 SURAJ TEXT. MILLS MALOT 592
RAJASTHAN
13 UDAIPUR COTTON MILLS UDAIPUR 428 14 MAHALAXMI MIILS BEAWAR 410 15 SHREE BIJAY COTTON MILLS BIJAYNAGAR 510
NTC (GUJARAT) LTD.
16 AHMD. NEW TEXT. MILLS AHMEDABAD 640 17 RAJNAGAR TEXT. MILLS AHMEDABAD 659
NTC(MN) LTD.
MAHARASHTRA
18 INDU NO.-6 MUMBAI 441 19 INDU NO. -1 MUMBAI 1010 20 KOHINOOR MILLS-1 MUMBAI 563 21 TATA MILLS MUMBAI 1235 22 PODAR MILLS MUMBAI 1034 23 RBBA MILLS HINGANGHAT 581 24 INDU NO.-5 MUMBAI 463 25 SAVATRAM RAMPRASA MILLS AKOLA 364
NTC (MP) LTD.
MADHYA PRADESH
26 BURHANPUR TAPTI MILLS BURHANPUR 390 27 NEW BHOPAL TEXT. MILLS BHOPAL 619
NTC (SM) LTD.
MAHARASHTRA
28 APOLLO TEXT. MILLS MUMBAI 603 29 BARSHI TEXT. MILLS BARSHI 312 30 CHALISGAON TEXT. MILLS CHALISGAON 563 31 FINLAY MILLS MUMBAI 834 32 DHULE TEXT. MILLS DHULE 639 33 GOLD MOHUR MILLS MUMBAI 602 34 NANDED TEXT. MILLS NANDED 614 35 NEW CITY MILLS MUMBAI 723 36 AURANGABAD TEXT. MILLS AURANGABAD 211
NTC (UP) LTD.
UTTAR PRADESH
37 SWADESHI COTTON MILLS, MAU 542 38 SWADESHI COTTON MILLS, NAINI 1127
NTC (WBABO) LTD.
WEST BENGAL
39 LAXMINARAYAN COTTON MILLS RISHRA 588 40 SODEPUR COTTON MILLS SODEPUR 418 41 ARATI COTTON MILLS DASSNAGAR 478
BIHAR
42 BIHAR CO-OPERATIVE MOKAMEH 412
ORISSA
43 ORISSA COTTON MILLS BHAGATPUR 388
ASSAM
44 ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES CHANDRAPURA 203
NTC (TN&P) LTD.
TAMIL NADU
45 CAMBODIA MILLS CIOMBATORE 630 46 CIOMBATORE MURUGAN MILLS CIOMBATORE 717 47 PANKAJA MILLS CIOMBATORE 497 48 SRI RANGAVILAS MILLS CIOMBATORE 595 49 SRI SARDA MILLS CIOMBATORE 387 50 COIMBATORE SPG.WVG. MILLS CIOMBATORE 601 51 POINEER MILLS KAMUDAKUDI 305 52 KALEESWARAR –B KALAYARKOIL 425
PODICHERRY
53 SRI BHARATI MILLS PODICHERRY 476
  TOTAL 29311
NATIONAL TEXTILE CORPORATION LIMITED, NEW DELHI
ANNEXURE - II
PROFIT EARNED AND (LOSSES) SUFFERED BY MILLS DURING LAST 3 YEARS (STATE WISE)

UTTAR PRADESH (Rs. Lacs)
Sl No. Name of the mills 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04
1 Swadeshi Cotton mill,Mau (497.58) (559.37) 717.61 2 Swadesh Cotton mills, Naini (1,507.61) (1,679.29) 3,202.11
MAHARASHTRA (MN)
1 India United Mills 1 (21,352.56) (23,779.08) (22,333.94) 2 India United Mills 5 (9,568.07) (10,821.93) (10,440.63) 3 India United Mills 6 (8,997.71) (10,280.14) (9,461.63) 4 Sawatram Mills (4,787.75) (5,364.44) (5,202.10) 5 RBBA Mills (5,224.24) (623.61) (6,517.64) 6 Kohinoor Mills no. 1 (12,655.40) (14,890.65) (13,497.38) 7 Tata Mills (11,042.40) (13,441.05) (14,143.89) 8 Podar Mills (7,419.04) (9,162.59) (9,327.63)
MAHARASHTRA (SM)
1 Appolo Mills 458.41 (1,106.23) (1,481.52) 2 Finlay Mills (1,483.38) (1,744.04) (1,991.75) 3 Gold Mohur mills (1,135.62) (1,387.64) (1,720.46) 4 New City mills (1,389.01) (1,552.71) (1,956.57) 5 Aurangabad Textile mill (149.77) 27.60 (327.05) 6 Barshi mills 214.21 (92.11) (189.13) 7 Chalisgaon mills (546.90) (722.85) (1,175.06) 8 Dhule Textile mills (270.27) (366.59) (1,259.29) 9 Nanded Textile mills (358.65) (410.00) (976.83)
TAMIL NADU
1 Combodia Mills (455.25) (465.56) (631.10) 2 Combatore Murugan mills (168.50) (179.76) (385.62) 3 Coimbatore spg & Wvg mill (1,439.25) (1,700.10) 1,088.55 4 Kaleeswarar mills B (397.91) (334.30) (481.11) 5 Pankaja mills (356.73) (371.15) (436.10) 6 Pioneer spinners (221.59) (228.27) (318.60) 7 Shree Rangavilas -GS&W (486.69) (413.21) (568.49) 8 Shri sharda Mills (599.43) (665.38) (579.71)
PONDICHERRY
1 Shri Bharti Mills (681.06) (816.37) (504.49)
WEST BENGAL
1 Arti Cotton Mills (574.00) (547.00) (725.00) 2 Laxminarayan coton mill (536.00) (730.00) (890.00) 3 Sodepore cotton mill (337.00) (526.00) (529.00)
ASSAM
1 Associated Industries (478.00) (515.00) (497.00)
BIHAR
1 Bihar Coop. WS Mills (370.00) (552.00) (595.00)
ORISSA
1 Orissa Cotton Mills (528.00) (534.00) (486.00)
GUJARAT
1 Ahmedabad New Textile mill (889.52) (1,801.16) 3,668.53 2 Rajnagar Textile mill (856.03) (3,530.67) 4,925.77
KERALA
1 Algappa Mills 212.07 (606.91) (713.74) 2 Cannanore mills (124.87) (77.29) (175.77) 3 Mahe Mills 387.06 (241.09) (350.10) 4 Keral,a Laxmi Mills 712.38 (273.52) (357.91) 5 Vijaimohini Mills 148.92 (242.34) (393.83) 6 Parvathi Mills 1,595.64 (1,116.85) (1,511.52) 7 Tirupatti cotton mills 635.27 (281.49) (310.64)
KARNATAKA
1 Minerva & Mysore Mills (923.31) (3,654.16) 3,099.07 2 Yallamma Cotton mills 789.98 (389.94) (408.66)
ANDHRA PRADESH
1 Ananthapur Mills 345.09 (430.97) (495.85)
RAJASTHAN
1 Mahalakshmi mills (585.51) (644.36) 547.36 2 Shree Bijai Cotton Mills (490.03) (373.39) 820.20 3 Udaipur Cotton Mills (578.06) (567.20) 181.14
PUNJAB
1 Suraj Textile Mills (525.73) (574.63) 608.11 2 Kharar Textile Mills (523.19) (526.00) 464.58
MADHYA PRADESH
1 Burhanpur Tapti Mills (540.00) (1,590.00) 2,097.00 2 New Bhopal Mills (482.00) (1,266.00) 2,114.00

Statement showing names of the mills closed, their location, no. of employees availed mvrs and the amount spent.
S.NO. NAME OF THE MILLS NO. OF EMPLOYEES AVAILED AMOUNT SPENT ON MVRS     MVRS AS ON 15.11.2004 (RS. IN CRORES)
I NTC (APKKM) LTD.
ANDHRA PRADESH
1 ADONI MILLS, ADONI 104 3.49 2 NATRAJ MILLS, NIRMAL 59 2.23 3 NETHA MILLS, SECUNDERABAD 126 2.73 4 AZAM JAHI MILLS, WARRANGAL 453 15.59
KARNATAKA
5 M.S.K. MILLS, GULBARGA 749 21.49 6 MYSORE SPG.& WVG.MILLS, Merged with Minerva Mills BANGALORE
II NTC (DPR) LTD.
PUNJAB
7 DAYAL BAGH, AMRITSAR 505 11.12 8 PANIPAT WOOLEN MILLS, KHARAR 630 14.81
RAJASTHAN
9 EDWARD MILLS, BEAWAR 280 6.88
III NTC GUJARAT) LTD.
10 RAJKOT MILLS, AHMEDABAD 307 9.48 11 PETLAD MILLS, PETLAD 376 11.17 12 NEW MANEKCHOWK TEXT. MILLS, AHMEDABAD 778 27.36
13 VIRAMGAM TEXT. MILLS, VIRAMGAM 732 22.41 14 MAHALAXMI TEXT. MILLS,BHAVNAGAR 725 23.46 15 RAJNAGAR – 2, AHMEDABAD 838 30.05 16 AHMD. JUPITER MILLS, AHMEDABAD 794 28.00 17 HIMADRI TEXTILE MILLS,AHMEDABAD 525 19.41 18 JEHANGIR TEXT. MILLS, AHMEDABAD 1102 40.87
IV NTC (MN) LTD.
MAHARASHTRA
19 KOHINOOR-3, MUMBAI 16 0.67 20 KOHINOOR-2, MUMBAI 83 3.95 21 INDU NO.- 4, MUMBAI 592 30.4 22 INDU NO.- 2, MUMBAI 813 39.66 23 INDU NO. – 3, MUMBAI 490 23.84 24 JAM MFG. MILLS, MUMBAI 702 36.56 25 SHRI SITARAM MILLS, MUMBAI 292 13.09 26 MODEL MILLS, NAGPUR 1305 45.48 27 R.S.R.G. MILLS, AKOLA 621 17.39 28 VIDHARBHA MILLS, ACHALPUR 528 16.62
V NTC (MP) LTD.
MADHYA PRADESH
29 KALYANMAL MILLS, INDORE 1445 37.09 30 SWADESHI MILLS, INDORE 615 16.85 31 HIRA MILLS, UJJAIN 874 22.73 32 INDORE MALWA MILLS , INDORE 1807 42.55
CHHATTISGARH
33 BENGALNAGPUR COTTON MILLS, RAJNANDGAON 1203 31.18
VI NTC (SM) LTD.
MAHARASHTRA
34 BHARAT TEXT. MILLS, MUMBAI 809 34.14 35 DIGVIJAY TEXT. MILLS, MUMBAI 870 42.91 36 ELPHINSTONE SPG.&WVG. MILLS, 702 34.19 MUMBAI
37 JUPITER TEXT. MILLS, MUMBAI 737 37.22 38 MUMBAI TEXT. MILLS, MUMBAI 794 37.50 39 NEW HIND TEXT. MILLS, MUMBAI 875 40.66 40 PODAR PROCESSORS, MUMBAI 431 19.47 41 SHREE MADHUSUDAN MILLS, MUMBAI 512 22.05
VII NTC (WBABO) LTD.
WEST BENGAL
42 CENTRAL COTTON MILLS, BELUR 219 8.04 43 M.B.TEXT. MILLS, COSSIMBAZAR 101 3.66 44 BENGAL FINE –II, KATAGUNJ 46 1.64 45 JYOTI WVG. FACTORY., PATIPUKUR 92 3.51 46 SHREE MAHALAXMI MILLS, PALTA 144 5.57 47 BANGASRI COTTON MILLS, SUKHCHAR 64 2.36 48 BENGAL LUXMI COTTON MILLS, 171 5.67 SERAMPORE
49 RAMPOORIA COTTON MILLS ,RISHRA 194 6.59 50 BENGAL FINE S&W MILLS-1, 157 5.18 KONNAGAR
BIHAR
51 GAYA COTTON MILLS, BIHAR 147 4.54
VIII NTC (UP) LTD
UTTAR PRADESH
52 ATHERTON MILLS, KANPUR 979 26.86 53 BIJLI COTTON MILLS, HATHRAS 109 3.17 54 LAXMIRATTAN COTTON MILLS,KANPUR 1131 31.33 55 LORD KRISHNA TEXT. MILLS, 510 13.51 SAHARANPUR
56 MUIR MILLS, KANPUR 1235 35.27 57 NEW VICTORIA MILLS, KANPUR 1265 35.45 58 RAE BARELI TEXT. MILLS, 155 4.03 RAE BARELI
59 SHRI VIKRAM COTTON MILLS, 470 12.47 LUCKNOW
60 SWADESHI COTTON MILLS, KANPUR 1106 35.53
IX NTC (TN&P) LTD.
TAMILNADU
61 OM PARASAKTHI MILLS, COIMBATORE 284 7.39 62 KISHNAVENI TEXT.MILLS, 223 5.99 COIMBATORE
63 KALEESWARAR `A`, COIMBATORE 216 5.97 64 SOMASUNDRAM MILLS, COIMBATORE 642 15.97 65 BALARAMVARMA, SHENCOTTAH 292 6.39
PONDICHERRY
66 SWADESHI COTTON MILLS, 206 5.23 PONDICHERRY Closure under process
  TOTAL 36357 1228.07