Ministry of Textiles (Maharashtra)

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

The Ministry is headed by a cabinet level minister. Sanjay Savkare is current Minister of Textiles. The Cabinet Minister is assisted by the Minister of State.

Head office

Cabinet Ministers No.PortraitMinisterTerm of officePolitical party MinistryChief Minister From ToPeriod Minister of Textiles01Marotrao Kannamwar 19601962Indian National Congress Yashwantrao I Yashwantrao Chavan02Marotrao Kannamwar 19621962Indian National Congress Yashwantrao II03Gopalrao Bajirao Khedkar 19621963Indian National Congress Kannamwar lMarotrao Kannamwar04Parashuram Krishnaji Sawant (Interim Chief Minister)19621963Indian National Congress SawantParashuram Krishnaji Sawant05D. S. Palaspagar 19631967Indian National Congress Vasantrao IVasantrao Naik06Shankarrao Chavan 19671969Indian National Congress Vasantrao II07Madhukar Dhanaji Chaudhari 19691972Indian National Congress08Vasantrao Patil 19721973Indian National Congress Vasantrao III09Vasantrao Naik (Chief Minister)19731974Indian National Congress10Abdul Rahman Antulay 19741975Indian National Congress11Rafiq Zakaria 19751977Indian National Congress Shankarrao I Shankarrao Chavan12Madhukar Dhanaji Chaudhari 19771978Indian National CongressVasantdada IVasantdada Patil13Jawaharlal Darda 19781978Indian National CongressVasantdada II14Hashmukhbhai Upadhaya 19781980Janata Party Pawar ISharad Pawar15Nanabhau Yembadwar 19801982Indian National Congress Antulay Abdul Rahman Antulay16Shantaram Gholap 19821983Indian National Congress Bhosale Babasaheb Bhosale17 Ramrao Adik (Deputy Chief Minister)19831985Indian National Congress Vasantdada IIIVasantdada Patil18V. Subramanian 19851985Indian National Congress Vasantdada IV19Sudhakarrao Naik 19851986Indian National Congress NilangekarShivajirao Patil Nilangekar20Vilasrao Deshmukh 19861988Indian National Congress Shankarrao II Shankarrao Chavan21W. R. Sherekar 19881990Indian National Congress Pawar II Sharad Pawar22Narendra Marutrao Kamble 19901991Indian National Congress Pawar III23Jawaharlal Darda 19911991Indian National Congress24Jawaharlal Darda 19911993Indian National Congress Sudhakarrao Sudhakarrao Naik25Sarawan Parate 19931994Indian National Congress Pawar IV Sharad Pawar26Jaiprakash Mundada 19951999Shiv Sena Joshi Manohar Joshi27Nitin Gadkari 19991999Bharatiya Janata Party Rane Narayan Rane28Jaiprakash Mundada 19991999Shiv Sena29 Vilasrao Deshmukh (Chief Minister)19991999Indian National Congress Deshmukh I Vilasrao Deshmukh30 Ranjeet Deshmukh 19992003Indian National Congress31 Ranjeet Deshmukh 20032004Indian National Congress Sushilkumar Sushilkumar Shinde32 Vilasrao Deshmukh (Chief Minister)20042004Indian National Congress Deshmukh II Vilasrao Deshmukh33 Ashok Chavan 20042008Indian National Congress34 Anees Ahmed 20082009Indian National Congress Ashok IAshok Chavan35 Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan 20092010Indian National Congress Ashok II36 Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan 20102014Indian National Congress Prithviraj Prithviraj Chavan37 Chandrakant Patil 20142016Bharatiya Janata Party Fadnavis I Devendra Fadnavis38 Subhash Deshmukh 20162019Bharatiya Janata Party39 Ram Shinde 20192019Bharatiya Janata Party40 Devendra Fadnavis (Chief_Minister) In Charge20192019Bharatiya Janata Party Fadnavis II41 Nitin Raut 20192019Indian National Congress Thackeray Uddhav Thackeray42 Aslam Shaikh 20192022Indian National Congress43 Eknath Shinde (Chief Minister)In Charge20222022Shiv Sena (2022–present) Eknath Eknath Shinde44 Chandrakant Patil 20222024Bharatiya Janata Party45Devendra Fadnavis (Chief_Minister) In Charge20242024Bharatiya Janata Party Fadnavis III Devendra Fadnavis46 Sanjay Savkare 2024IncumbentBharatiya Janata Party

Ministers of State

No.PortraitDeputy MinisterTerm of officePolitical party MinistryMinisterChief Minister From ToPeriod Deputy Minister of Textiles Vacant20192019NA Fadnavis IIDevendra Fadnavis Devendra Fadnavis01Rajendra Patil Yadravkar 20192022Shiv Sena ThackerayAslam Shaikh Uddhav Thackeray02Prajakt Tanpure Additional_Charge20222022Nationalist Congress Party Vacant 20222024NA EknathEknath Shinde(2022 - 2022) Chandrakant Patil (2022 – 2024) Eknath Shinde Vacant2024incumbentNA Fadnavis IIISanjay Savkare (2024 – Present) Devendra Fadnavis

List of principal secretary

Ministers of Printing Presses (1960 - 1978 ) No.PortraitMinisterTerm of officePolitical party MinistryChief Minister From ToPeriod Minister of Printing Presses01Sultan. G. Kazi 19601962Indian National Congress Yashwantrao I Yashwantrao Chavan02 Shankarrao Chavan 19621962Indian National Congress Yashwantrao II03Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan 19621963Indian National Congress Kannamwar lMarotrao Kannamwar04P. K. Sawant (Interim Chief Minister)19621963Indian National Congress Sawant IP. K. Sawant05 Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan 19631967Indian National Congress Vasantrao IVasantrao Naik06D. S. Palaspagar 19671969Indian National Congress Vasantrao II07Gopalrao Bajirao Khedkar 19691972Indian National Congress08M. B. Popat 19721974Indian National Congress Vasantrao III09 Shankarrao Chavan 19741975Indian National Congress10Narendra Mahipati Tidke 19751977Indian National Congress Shankarrao I Shankarrao Chavan11Shankarrao Genuji Kolhe 19771978Indian National CongressVasantdada IVasantdada Patil Ending on 7 March 1978

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, the 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.Aditya Sarkar, Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay (2017).

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. The textile industry in Mumbai has largely disappeared, reducing labour migration after the strikes.

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.

Textile parks Maharashtra government is planning to set up 9 textile parks.

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