(ii)

On behalf of the Council, the Chairman, PDEXCIL attended the following :

Meeting with State Government Officials on 03-04.08.2004 at Chennai.

Meeting convened by Shri Sudhir Bhargava, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India to discuss Agenda 2005 regarding Post Quota matters on 17.11.2004 at New Delhi.

Meeting with the Hon’ble Minister for Commerce & Industry to Review the export performance for the current year and issues related to the new DEPB schemes at New Delhi on 11/12/2004.

Seminar on Strategies for Investment organised by FIEO at Mumbai on 18.01.2005.

Meeting with Shri Shankersinh Vaghela, Hon’ble Union Minister for Textiles and Secretary (Textiles), Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India at New Delhi on 20.01.2005

Meeting on "Regional Committee" formation organised by FIEO at Mumbai on 27/01/2005.

Meeting on "Indian Textiles in post MFA" an interactive session of Indian Textile Industry with Heads of leading banks and financial institutions at Ahmedabad on 14.02.2005.

Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee Meeting on 22.02.2005 at New Delhi.

(D)

Press Meets

(i)

The Council participated in the press meet on the Steep reduction on DEPB at Erode on 25.09.2004.

(ii)

Press meet was organised on 9/7/2004 at Erode regarding abolition of Cenvat on Powerloom Textiles.

II)

Export Promotion Programmes :

The Council participated in the following international/domestic textile fairs/exhibition;

1.

 Fabric@Magic, Las Vegas, USA

 14-17.02.2005

2.

 XXIV Federal Fair, Moscow, Russia

 22-25.03.2005

3.

 Tex-Styles India 2005, New Delhi

 26.02.2005 to 01.03.2005

8.

The Council projected its various activities in the realms of powerloom development and export promotion, through the media of advertisement, publicity and publications funded by the Council, as spelt out hereinbelow ;

a)

Publicity of the Council was mounted through advertisements released in various publications/print media during the fiscal year 2004 – 2005. The publicity of the Council’s activities was supplemented by the support of the press who actively involved themselves by bringing out press communiqué in the concerned newspapers, in the course of the various events of the PDEXCIL round the year.

b)

Information was regularly disseminated to the members through the Council’s newsletters.

Membership:

The membership of the Council stood at 2054 as on 31.03.2005.

 
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