The government has signed or received investments to the tune of Rs 18,500 crore as part of the PM MITRA Park scheme. The scheme aims to boost production, employment and exports in the textiles sector. The government finalised seven sites — Tamil Nadu (Virudhnagar), Telangana (Warangal), Gujarat (Navsari), Karnataka (Kalaburagi), Madhya Pradesh (Dhar), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow) and Maharashtra (Amravati) — for setting up PMMITRA Parks. Once completed, it is expected that each PM MIT RA Park will attract about Rs 10,000 crore investment and generate about 3 lakh (both direct and indirect) employment opportunities, Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh said in a written reply in the Parliament. Other initiatives being implemented to promote growth and development of the textile sector include the Scheme for Integrated Textile Park (SITP), Integrated Processing Development Scheme (IPDS) and National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM)